True, the Syrian regime was less gratuitously violent, more rational, and more cautious internationally than the one in Baghdad.
A political party can no more gratuitously offend their supporters than they can gratuitously offend their voters.
Nobody has used the local Democrats as a spittoon more gratuitously than Tom "the Hammer" DeLay.
In fact, though, Suicide Squad is, if anything, more gratuitously sexist than the Hitchcock film.
Has a British politician ever lauded a more gratuitously lowbrow film?
Less gratuitously, it is more his eye for the bumps, dips, slides and hills of people's bodies that is exercised in his new exhibition.
Instead of Macbeth, I would have gone for the even more gratuitously gory Titus Andronicus, a Roman revenge saga with more severed limbs than a serial killer's fridge freezer.
In certain circumstances, the more gratuitously novel the packaging, the more coveted the item becomes.
This is not because Figure 5 is conclusively ruled out by the distribution, but rather because it is gratuitously complex: it postulates more causal connections (and hence more probabilistic parameters) than are necessary to explain the underlying pattern of probabilistic dependencies.
First, how come so many book reviews are more negative, even gratuitously so, than analogous New York Times critiques of murderers, hurricanes, looters, museum and gallery exhibits, cosmetics, cat shows, society galas, ballerinas and architecture?
Lalo's style of pursuit is a bit more aggressive and gratuitously homicidal than Mike's and seems inspired by Anton Chigurh from "No Country for Old Men". It works well enough for him to get Werner on the phone and learn vague details about a construction project, information he will surely share with both Hector and (perhaps) the cartel.
