Sentence examples for how gratuitous from inspiring English sources

What makes the Taliban's depredations seem especially sad and awful is how gratuitous they are, even in the pinched terms of their perpetrators.

While some say that the region's rapid recovery vindicates that policy, others more plausibly argue that the rebound mainly suggests just how excessive the I.M.F.'s demands were and how gratuitous the crisis was in the first place.

He savors insults and revels in his own slurs, no matter how gratuitous.

One can readily understand how such gratuitous cracks might have disposed a consular official to tell the author of such snotty-grams to take a hike, but in fairness I think I'd like to hear the State Department's version of the June events before passing judgment.

It took courage for Pervez Hoodbhoy to stand before the London secularism conference and warn us about gratuitous offense; how we should avoid humiliating diaspora Muslims, if we can.

As publisher to this supposed cabal, he is quietly outraged by some recent press coverage, describing as "totally gratuitous" a story about how Solar offended artists including Antony Gormley.

Sure, your future success may be worth some sacrifice (it's up to you to decide how much), but postdoc sacrifices are often gratuitous.

As for Mr Trump, how that prince of bombast, braggadocio and the gratuitous insult will respond to actually losing will be among the most fascinating questions of the frantic weeks ahead.

How can he live with himself after imposing such gratuitous pain upon the people of this nation?

You end up with a lot of "no-comment" and gratuitous quots from the CEO as to how good things look.

This is how they justify that graphic - and some would say gratuitous - final scene.