Sentence examples for seem gratuitous from inspiring English sources

But the glosses that Kramer adds seem gratuitous.

With all that history, those beckoning posters about heaven and earth might seem gratuitous.

(In this context, McClatchy's occasional leaps into the grotesque -- especially in "The Infection" -- can seem gratuitous).

But Ms. Lewis and Mr. Sykes imbue them with so much passion that their inclusion does not seem gratuitous.

Laughing at it from a theatre in midtown Manhattan may seem gratuitous, but the playwright's deeper purpose gradually reveals itself.

Having the singer Alanis Morissette or the writer Adam Gopnik expound on anger might seem gratuitous, but the notoriously hotheaded tennis player John McEnroe?

And it never seems gratuitous.

Other violence seems gratuitous and pointless.

If all this seems gratuitous, it is.

"Black" appears to be germane; "attractive" seems gratuitous.

It seemed gratuitous and we took it out.