Example sentences for: gratuitously

How can you use “gratuitously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Certain features of Huxley's imagined universe--set six centuries into the future--would in fact become realities within a few decades" (Dorothy Rabinowitz, the Wall Street Journal ). Dissenting, New York 's John Leonard says the show gratuitously injects a happy ending and melodrama: "Huxley has been networked."

  • Dear Gratuitously Challenged,

  • Wolff gratuitously singles out (by name!)

  • It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."

  • Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.


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