Sentence examples for if gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, can make it clear that judges should step in early if gratuitous insinuations are being made that serve to muddy rather than clear the waters.

According to H. Rockoff, the dollar union would have been likely to be broken down during the Great Depression if gratuitous federal fiscal transfers and federal deposit insurance would not have been executed.

Consequently, the Medicaid portion of the health care decision seems at least premature, if not gratuitous.

"Ms Wran is not able to anticipate when or if this gratuitous campaign will end".

Even if this gratuitous waste of research funds is deemed affordable to the UK, it is certainly not affordable to the rest of the world.

She believes violence has a place if it is germane to the plot, "but not if it is gratuitous and particularly aimed at women".

Call me shocking and offensive (and if you add gratuitous and boring, "Californication"), but your pal's question seems pretty natural, given the context.

Last week Nicole Kidman told the US Congress that Hollywood contributed to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects, and Matt Damon revealed that he turned down scripts if they featured gratuitous violence.

If it's gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle.

The idea that sitcoms allow us to "laugh at the bigot" is still a defence used today, with similar if admittedly less gratuitous results.

I have no issues doing it for a part if it makes sense, if it's not gratuitous and I think it's adding to the story.