Sentence examples for so gratuitously from inspiring English sources

Why is he being so gratuitously horrid about French post-modernist philosophers?

"It was so gratuitously excessive," she said before her rushed departure.

Never have I seen a nation's mood so transformed overnight nor a generation's aspirations so gratuitously crushed.

Not since the "great big new tax on everything" line mowed down reasonable discussion about alternative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has a political party so gratuitously abandoned rational policy development in the interests of a sledgehammer slogan.

FOAD S. MUTHANA Bronx There are parts of Worth's article on Al Qaeda in Yemen that are interesting, while others about the society are so gratuitously offensive as to be appalling.

I can't think of a single other country in the world where you make references to any political party on a continuous basis with this kind of qualification as if the reference is part of the party's name.I believe that this kind of attribute that is so gratuitously granted is uncalled for, condescending, patronizing disdainful, or at a limit straight insulting.

Did McNamee feel he needed to give the feds more than Pettitte to get them off his back, so he gratuitously threw in Clemens?

He added: "There are bloody moments in 'The Hollow Crown,' but not gratuitously so.

There are bloody moments in "The Hollow Crown," but not gratuitously so.

"There are bloody moments in 'The Hollow Crown,' but not gratuitously so," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.

He signed off on a Silver Star citation that was false — gratuitously so, because no one had to lie to make Tillman a brave man.