Sentence examples for gratuitously elaborate from inspiring English sources

If Harriet's plans become gratuitously elaborate — at one point she steals a deadly cobra and hurls it from an overpass into a speeding Trans Am — so do the nearly five hundred pages between her decision to find Robin's murderer and the climactic revelation at the book's end.

Gratuitously violent.

Not gratuitously, just often.

The deep state leaks gratuitously.

The pose is gratuitously unsophisticated.

It gratuitously throws a party.

"Lin never gratuitously invents anything," Chernow says.

I am not doing it gratuitously.

It was gratuitously punitive in its effects.

I couldn't tolerate gratuitously boisterous laughter.

But it's also gratuitously inflammatory.