Sentence examples for utterly gratuitous from inspiring English sources

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For Mr. Paladino to choose this moment to make his utterly gratuitous remarks suggests at the very least an extraordinary level of insensitivity.

And both revelled in "the utterly gratuitous love of God by which we live astonished".He did not feel he had shifted from Lutheranism, either.

… those – like conedison – who thought Girls was no shrinking violet when it came to sexploitation: I thought the sex early on was utterly gratuitous and instilled for the sole purpose of getting re-upped for a second series … congrats, Lena.

And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has done, that the attempt of white people to destroy him — for that is what it is — is utterly gratuitous, it is not hard for him to think of white people as devils.

And in John Wick, it is the conscienceless, despicable, utterly gratuitous assassination of Keanu Reeves' puppy – a gift from his recently deceased girlfriend – that prompts him to butcher every Russian male over the age of 21 living anywhere on the east coast of the United States.

It has the characteristic Coens undertow of dark seriousness but, above all, it lets the brothers indulge in utterly gratuitous movie pastiche, giving us a bit of western here, a splash of water ballet there (Scarlett Johansson in a mermaid's tail) and some boisterous Gene Kelly-style hoofing, with Channing Tatum leading a flotilla of tap-dancing sailors.

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It's utterly realistic, not gratuitous or farcical, because Akhavan isn't interested in the erotics but in the subtle exchanges of power that happen between a couple in bed.

The urgent imperative for the Fed to revert to canons of sound money can be illustrated by its opposite: the utterly shameful and gratuitous bailout of Morgan Stanley two weeks after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

Utterly creepy, without being gratuitous, and an exciting start to what is intended to become a series about Rome.

With the look of a graphic novel, an elaborate and involving story and a fair amount of gratuitous sexual titillation, Fear Effect 2 is utterly fascinating.

Gratuitous, too.

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