Sentence examples for quite gratuitous from inspiring English sources

The Millennium trilogy was quite gratuitous at times".

"To speak about 'a premeditated ambush' is not helpful and seems designed to heighten emotions in a quite gratuitous fashion," he said.

All the characteristics usually attributed to the deity – that he is morally perfect, that he loves his creatures, that his human creations are images of himself – all these are quite gratuitous additions to the inferred creative function.

In discussing Mr. Bush's reported distaste for reading policy books, for instance, it seems quite gratuitous to add that "people who have read only one book can be quite dangerous -- witness Timothy McVeigh and all those poor citizens who read Ayn Rand and are stuck like Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus".

I think this is rather gratuitous.

Often quite a gratuitous seeming one.

But, the island is quite comfortable with ganja and gratuitous sex for heterosexuals.

It's just pee, Janice!" Crystal may or may not have remarked to his wife, stamping his fist on the marble breakfast bar and getting really quite cross about such a gratuitous representation of lesbian sex being thrust in his face.

(ITV) Gratuitous link of the day Quite fascinating: flickrvision.com.

I'd add 'just ask her', but that would be gratuitous, and there's been quite a lot of that in the recent days, as various scores in the small world of Australian conservative politics have been settled.

"Although the subject matter is really quite bloody and violent, there are no gratuitous descriptions – instead she has this dreadful sense of horror, but it is done delicately and subtly.