They gratuitously insulted Mayor Lindsay who has long been leading the city's antiwar forces against his own party's Administration and they ironically did so just as the Mayor was issuing an eloquent appeal to keep the voices of dissent alive and potent.
Luxury car manufacturers have a long and distinctive rep for gratuitously slipping in a bit of sex among the otherwise shiny, but boring, business of selling cars.
I hope he marches down the long list of others he has gratuitously offended.
But the thing is, as long as you don't do something gratuitously stupid or make a flagrant nuisance of yourself, nobody's going to stop you.If I'd tried letting my daughter do this in, say, the Potomac River in Washington, DC, I would have likely been arrested.
But Thursday's announcement that all Chinese couples will be allowed two children is as good a moment as any to write the obituary for this controversial and gratuitously cruel policy: China's one-child policy died on Thursday, after a long illness.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.59pm AEST05:59 I've known the agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce for a very long time so please understand that I'm not making this observation gratuitously.
Joseph Welch, the lawyer for the army in the McCarthy-Army hearings brought the McCarthy Era to an end by asking McCarthy, who had gratuitously ruined the reputation of a young colleague: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" We are beginning to see the use of these guilt-by-association practices.
Yet Vatican officials gratuitously raised them at the news conference, while they offered limited antidotes to the crimes of sexual abuse and the long history of bishops dithering and covering up these crimes.
Not gratuitously, just often.
The deep state leaks gratuitously.
