These accounts describe rivers of wine, houses built of cake and barley sugar, streets paved with pastry, and shops that gratuitously give goods to everyone.
Do we really think Campbell's group will gratuitously give the public an accounting of those (tax-supported) finances?
When kids are asked, "How was school today?" or "How was your day today?" some kids don't answer at all or gratuitously give a shrug.
"This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process.
What confounds me is why online commenters are so gratuitously nasty; why, when given the opportunity to have an educated disagreement with an author or other readers, they use the space allotted to spew venom instead of presenting a well-reasoned argument.
The biggest thing that has worked well is that we never, ever give negative input gratuitously.
I think we could have worked that out for ourselves; just as Katrina Lindsay's set, opening up like the pages of a pop-up book, is gratuitously furnished with the headings Pinero gave each act such as "The Family Skeleton".
She agonizes over whether to tone down her speech so as to avoid gratuitously humiliating him, but in the end gives it as written.
We learn at a young age not to give people unsolicited advice, or gratuitously point out behavior that we think could be improved.
Take the story of Kelly, a two-time rape victim who was given a vicious, unnecessary, and gratuitously large episiotomy (cut in the perineum) as she repeatedly shouted "no".
There was the gratuitously provocative nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, followed by the gratuitously insulting invitation of Louie Giglio, a Georgia pastor, to give the inaugural benediction.
