Sentence examples for still gratuitous from inspiring English sources

This is hefty saga territory, but the novel's length is still gratuitous.

Nevertheless, gratuitous inducers became important tools in biological research.

The Prime Minister ventured some quite unnecessary hair-splitting in his call for Isis to be henceforth called by its (pejorative) Arabic acronym, Daesh – to which he appended a still more gratuitous sideswipe at the BBC.

The scenes which feature this quite important aspect of the plot, while never gratuitous, can still feel uncomfortable to watch at times.

Now Lazear informs us that sure enough, mismatch was cyclical, and has in fact come way down even though unemployment remains high: What all this tells us is that the vast suffering still going on is gratuitous — that we could end this quickly with appropriate monetary and fiscal policies.

Although Halperin's snideness was gratuitous, I'd still rather live in a world where the media treated all politicians with similar skepticism.

Of course we should still celebrate culture that is gratuitous, and I personally can watch a horrifyingly violent film and then get on with my day.

Still, there is no sense of gratuitous threat about him.

Still we are concerned by his — gratuitous and erroneous — conclusion that the law violated only state constitutional standards and not federal constitutional guarantees of due process, privacy and equal protection.

Donen's biographer Joseph A. Casper stated that the scene avoids being gratuitous or amateurish, while still "developing plot, describing the setting while conveying its galvanizing atmosphere and manic mood, introducing and delineating character".

Mr. Bondy's production still seems drab, confused and full of gratuitous strokes geared to rattle "Tosca" devotees.