Sentence examples for really gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dodd spoke with barely concealed anger at what he called a "really gratuitous" statement delivered by what he had presumed was a sympathetic administration, which came after the blocking provisions had effectively been killed in Congress.

Perhaps Three Kingdoms really is a gratuitous mess.

Is all this gratuitous T&A really in the name of art?

With little more than a week to go before the May 8 contest, and early voting already under way, North Carolinians need to consider whether they really want to inflict this gratuitous bigotry on their fellow citizens and their children.

"Even if it was a program we really liked there would be some gratuitous sex or language that made us cringe," he said.

Being someone who was not really a fan of continuous or gratuitous alcohol consumption, this usually left me alone at night in my residence room.

Horror and softcore had co-existed throughout the 60s, even in accepted stables like Hammer Horror, but X-rated sex and gratuitous bloodletting hadn't really coalesced outside of the artistic avant-garde.

Finally viewers really saw the suffering associated with the gratuitous violence – a rare tactic for a show that uses it so casually it can sometimes seem formulaic.

One of the joys of being a subeditor is getting stuck into a ream of copy littered with gratuitous synonyms hogging space that should really be given over to facts.

"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.

Using the accelerometer to control the whirring orbit filter seems gratuitous and that's because it really is, but it's in more of a show off "yeah, this sounds awesome, doesn't it?" sort of way.