Sentence examples for gratuitously so from inspiring English sources

He added: "There are bloody moments in 'The Hollow Crown,' but not gratuitously so.

There are bloody moments in "The Hollow Crown," but not gratuitously so.

"There are bloody moments in 'The Hollow Crown,' but not gratuitously so," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.

He signed off on a Silver Star citation that was false — gratuitously so, because no one had to lie to make Tillman a brave man.

The violence is explicit but not gratuitously so, and it was important to Mulligan that it was included as part of the boys' story.

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?

Why is he being so gratuitously horrid about French post-modernist philosophers?

"It was so gratuitously excessive," she said before her rushed departure.

Not since the "great big new tax on everything" line mowed down reasonable discussion about alternative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has a political party so gratuitously abandoned rational policy development in the interests of a sledgehammer slogan.

FOAD S. MUTHANA Bronx There are parts of Worth's article on Al Qaeda in Yemen that are interesting, while others about the society are so gratuitously offensive as to be appalling.

I can't think of a single other country in the world where you make references to any political party on a continuous basis with this kind of qualification as if the reference is part of the party's name.I believe that this kind of attribute that is so gratuitously granted is uncalled for, condescending, patronizing disdainful, or at a limit straight insulting.