Sentence examples for so gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Everybody's on to me about this shot - it's so gratuitous.

The teargassing incident was so gratuitous, however, that it demands an additional comment.

"It is not so gratuitous as to say: 'Buy this! Buy this!' " Ms. Vecchiarelli said.

Viewed in another light, however, these sex scenes aren't always so gratuitous.

"I think that people try to find meaning in suffering because the suffering is otherwise so gratuitous and unbearable".

Whatever its motive, the Supreme Court's intervention at this point seems so gratuitous that I find it hard to shake the concern that some justices may actually think that social engineering of this sort may actually do some good.

Not so much gratuitous harm, you fear: more terminal.

Never has a game felt so awesomely gratuitous.

Christmas decorations remind me of the baroque because there is something so beautifully gratuitous about both.

In a robust response, Wainwright told the Observer she was "saddened" that the Mail had picked up on the attack on Cawood – played by Bafta-winner Sarah Lancashire – and a previous incident when a young woman police officer was crushed to death and had "tried to make a thing of it, when shows like Game of Thrones have so much gratuitous violence against lots of people".

Why should there be so much gratuitous, apparently pointless evil?