Sentence examples for gratuitously on from inspiring English sources

Others lack seriousness or rely gratuitously on shock value, as if the Holocaust needed any assistance there.

But the movie does not linger gratuitously on physical torment; its tension derives from Peggy's quiet dread and bouts of morning nausea at school, the cowed Belle's self-hatred and Brian's sinister, growing emulation of his father.

When I asked Weaver about this, he replied, "You haven't read about his gratuitously taking on other members on the floor in the last six months, have you?" I said I had not.

She 'is highly sexed', we learn gratuitously after one encounter.

"You see the guy down on the ground, being gratuitously kicked, on a continual basis, by more than one police officer.

There is no scientifically reliable estimate of the percentage of investigations that lead nowhere and thus gratuitously encroach on privacy and inflict uncompensated losses on the innocent.

Jude's tribulations do seem to have been gratuitously inflicted on him by a perverse intelligence.

And he's learned that vocally, less can be more: where his singing often felt gratuitously indulgent on the show, here he employed restraint, and effectively so.

An article in the Telegraph described the female leaders as variously "squeaking", "scowling" and "snapping", and gratuitously played on Sturgeon's sex to ridicule a potential alliance with Miliband as "a romance for our times".

Erinn gratuitously rags on Dragonlicker, calling his monastic approach, "the martyr approach," telling how he will overdramatize his suffering to give him an excuse for blowing the next challenge.

For every persuasive point that Mr. Helprin makes, he undermines it with a gratuitously nasty attack on his opponents, an absurd generalization or a pretentious digression that does nothing to illuminate his thesis.