He wrote, "gratuitous mystifications begin from the moment that we start to peer around for beings named for our pronouns".
Andrew Lansley was belatedly shuffled away from the portfolio in 2012, but not before he had unleashed a gratuitous reorganisation, and written his marketopian plan on to the statute book.
The first draft of the manuscript had to be redone, he says, after his wife went through it with a pen, writing "gratuitous hostility" many times in the margin.
"Even considering security costs associated with construction and operation in Afghanistan, this level of expenditure appears gratuitous and extreme," wrote John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, in SIGAR's just-released report on the Pentagon-funded station.
"It is difficult to exaggerate the aggravation at the White House over Alan Greenspan's gratuitous shot at President Bush's tax cuts," Novak writes.
Is "our culture" a "limbo of arbitrary choices and gratuitous assertions," as Kramer wrote in 1972?
"Gramercy represents N.Y.U.'s latest exercise in gratuitous land-grabbing," Mr. Beres wrote, "a $275 million splurge to transfer a luxury apartment building from the people of Manhattan to the far needier students of this poverty-ridden institution".
"The Left's gratuitous vandalism of American institutions and its hostility to the principles that have made this country great cannot be fought with essays in magazines," he writes.
He often railed about having to write such unremittingly gratuitous violence while sex, which his editors called "unmentionable acts," remained taboo.
In a letter to Crown, Ms. Somers's publisher, the doctors wrote, "Wiley dispenses gratuitous advice on significant medical issues including the use of bioidentical hormone therapies, areas that are legally and ethically the domain of licensed medical practitioners".
