But it's also gratuitously inflammatory.
As a teacher, she is imperious, all too often gratuitously bitchy and in her exactitude, ferociously, uncompromisingly insistent on a divine standard.
Seen together, they become rather too much of a gratuitously sophisticated thing.
It pays off more frequently now than in the past, when his attitude was cheekier, his judgment wobblier and too many of his creations gratuitously perverse.
He also maligned the administration gratuitously.
He argues the current mayor's 101-person staff is gratuitously large, and that the administration has been too willing to issue bonds to finance expensive downtown infrastructure projects while ignoring public resources like libraries.
When dealing with people who gratuitously cause the innocent to suffer, no retribution seems too extreme, and the history of movies is full of good men (and a few women) driven to righteous brutality against predators, kidnappers and abusers.
The statement is not only gratuitously insulting -- it's also untrue.
Too many quotes and facts were unattributed, and the biography was widely condemned as gratuitously sensational.
It is hard, too, to picture the N.B.A.'s spotlight event without O'Neal's breakdancing, rattling basket stanchions, crashing gratuitously into courtside seats, dribbling coast to coast as a 7-foot-1 point-center (complete with crossover dribble), posing for television cameras, handing out nicknames to players, clowning around on the bench and cracking up the news media horde.
