Sentence examples for gratuitous with from inspiring English sources

But while the scene received a positive reaction from most viewers, others claimed it was "unnecessary" and "gratuitous", with one reviewer accusing the BBC of "wanting to become a porn channel".

Darryl Pinckney, who has himself explored bi-racial subject matter in his novel High Cotton, is in broad agreement, though with reservations: "Styron did do something rather silly and gratuitous with his Turner: that it had to be because of a white woman.

The episode's premise and the COS system were described as "unacknowledged 2001 rip-offs", while the presence of Deep Throat was called "gratuitous"; with both cited, along with an "absence of humor", as the episode's main detractions.

He is notoriously irascible; he was kept away from crucial talks with the Peronists after picking a gratuitous row with Mr Ruckauf.

* An agreed figure of £2,469 for the value of "past gratuitous care", with agreed interest of £740.

Mortal Kombat In 1992 Nintendo forced the game's creators to replace its notoriously gratuitous gore with more sanitised scenes; animations of red "blood" became grey "sweat".

In pragmatic terms, art is a privileged zone of gratuitous activity, with boundaries maintained by the agreement of the vested authorities.

So, going in, I expected, and discounted for, the usual Tarantino tics: lots of gratuitous violence, with fountains of arterial blood; a three-figure body count; frequent lingering over voluptuous tortures; a governing adolescent sensibility; and a preoccupation with movie history as the only kind worth taking seriously.

And yet there is something so dismal in the opinions of pollsters, campaigners and political commentators who assume that voters can be hit by a relentless barrage of shrill, gratuitous insults with no cost to political parties or the political process.

It ends – after a remarkable amount of gratuitous nudity – with a zombie plague that destroys London.

That would be Will Smith's completely gratuitous infatuation with vintage Chucks in "I, Robot," which was set in the year 2035.