Sentence examples for somewhat gratuitous from inspiring English sources
It's somewhat gratuitous, maybe even unfair.
He did not ease up and even dipped his head for the finish, a somewhat gratuitous display of commitment given that Talbot was by then battling Trinidad & Tobago's Richard Thompson for the silver way back in Bolt's wake.
The film is about an LA slacker (Andrew Garfield) searching for a missing girl, and – with its myriad movie references, over-convoluted plot and somewhat gratuitous female objectification (which a casual line of dialogue about "the male gaze" doesn't excuse) – feels like the work of a teenager eager to show how clever they are.
The more a diesel arriviste revels in the SD's low-rev torque, the more the idea of revving an engine to its limits begins to feel quaint and somewhat gratuitous.
The intense acting is also why many did not appreciate the ending of Ayouch's film, as it shifted the attention from this well-rendered father-son dynamic to a somewhat gratuitous act of violence involving a character extraneous to this central story, making the film ultimately uneven.
This includes a somewhat gratuitous display of idealized female body types from around the world (computer-composited from men's magazines and displayed for no apparent reason), a mannequin wearing a rubber-fetish "gimp" outfit, as well as the expected sculptural depictions of oozing and blistered genitals ravaged by STDs.
"The expletives are fairly gratuitous.
My only criticism of Julius is that he somewhat underplays the ultimate viciousness both of Shylock and of Shakespeare's gratuitous invention of the enforced conversion, which was no part of the pound-of-flesh tradition.
