Sentence examples for on gratuitous from inspiring English sources

TV thriller The Fall may have "lingered too intimately" on gratuitous violence, one of the show's creators has admitted.

Gift tax, a levy imposed on gratuitous transfers of property i.e., those made without compensation.

(Or something like that. You would think I would be able to Google the correct phrasing on gratuitous Samuel Johnson quotes).

The movie's later sequences in the Californian desert verge on gratuitous miserablist agony, though neatly concluded with a laughably convenient stroke of luck.

For the most part, Logan relies on gratuitous name-calling, unargued generalizations about Glück and her career, and arbitrary comparisons with other modern and contemporary poets.

This is high praise indeed because there is nothing sexy about curling and most sports shows on Italian TV insist on gratuitous female flesh.

Today all the role's steps seem tacked-on, gratuitous.

The poster for the show alone could keep an undergrad gender studies class occupied for months, with Jim's unnerving smirk topped only by the pained, forced smile on the woman half his age whose legs he's clutching on to the kind of gratuitous, Carry-On style sexism that's no longer a mainstay of popular culture.

The poster for the show alone could keep an undergrad gender studies class occupied for months, with Jim's unnerving smirk topped only by the pained, forced smile on the woman half his age whose legs he's clutching on to – the kind of gratuitous, Carry-On style sexism that's no longer a mainstay of popular culture.

The "holistic" Michigan-style add-on was gratuitous, in constitutional terms not "narrowly tailored" to serve the diversity interest.

The two sides also agreed to behave better when it came to blocking Republican amendments, on the Democrats' part, and resorting to gratuitous filibusters, on the Republicans' commitments neither party has lived up to.