Sentence examples for truly gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Killing the publication for the sake of a tiny saving would be a truly gratuitous step toward a dumbed-down country.

Once again, he sees them smiling and then he sees them walking away down a street where yellow lights scatter and regroup sporadically, without any obvious pattern, although Henric knows deep down that everything is determined in some way, everything is causally linked to something else, and human nature leaves very little room for the truly gratuitous.

"Killing the publication for the sake of a tiny saving would be a truly gratuitous step toward a dumbed-down country," Krugman wrote.

"John," the attorney general said, giving truly gratuitous legal advice, "it seems to me that you are going to have to be very careful".

Well, maybe Mr. Goldman's new book really was inspired by the young woman's question, although that gratuitous "truly she did" makes you wonder.

In other words, is the violence in horror films truly cathartic or just gratuitous pandering?

There will be grumbles about political correctness, for those who prized the right to offend grieve for the power and status it gave them, but the majority will continue to muddle through, trying not to truly offend or take gratuitous offence and trying not to be too sombre.

The final act is ushered in with a sweeping litany of Vlad's evil history, followed by truly unexpected horrors — including the gratuitous use of squirrels in a sequence in which "campy" and "surreal" more or less French kiss.

Here is an additional newsflash: The widowed are truly not looking for any gratuitous attention by stating a truthful marital status that they would happily relinquish in order to be able to check the "married" box on your form.

In the end, whatever price Nigella Lawson has been made to pay, I hope it might be some comfort to her that it is the ugly, gratuitous, face of patriarchal power which has truly indicted itself.

So give credit to the creators of "The Columnist," David Auburn's scrupulously assembled historical drama, for delivering a truly troubling glimpse of exposed flesh in the play's opening minutes, a glimpse — it turns out — that is anything but gratuitous.