Sentence examples for gratuitous translation from inspiring English sources

The Michel Legrand score still offers its fitful pleasures, and the bittersweet ending is retained; but it seems an oddly gratuitous translation of a highly successful film into theatrical terms.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.

It was gratuitous.

The gratuitous 3-D effects!