Use "gratuitous" in a sentence

1. Gratifying, but needlessly gratuitous

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2. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life

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3. We are concerned as well about this teacher‘s gratuitous viewpoints and would like to hear what your own position is

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4. Such attitudes (otherwise) suggesting caution or restraint were reflexively labeled Fascistic; a term destined to become the precursor to other forms of gratuitous name calling common among members of that generation directed against opposing viewpoints

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5. As a Roman Catholic, I too am oftentimes offended by gratuitous Christian bashing that has become commonplace in the Motion Picture Industry, for example, and among second rate, dysfunctional ―artists‖, (subsidized at tax-payer expense), whose Christian points of view are intentionally designed to (publicly) offend not only their primary target (Christians) but other religiously minded individuals who take religious matters seriously

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6. In the third debate, the Democratic candidate took gratuitous refuge in the lesbianism of one of Republican Vice President Cheney’s daughter to defend his own position with respect with homosexuality

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7. “Anyone who says that gratuitous sex is no substitute for gratuitous violence obviously hasn't had enough gratuitous sex

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8. Avoid gratuitous foreign travel

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9. Avoid gratuitous foreign travel then and be more patient with the beloved

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10. Gratuitous foreign travel should be avoided during this period

11. Sagittarians are renowned travellers, but gratuitous foreign travel is best avoided this period

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12. Gratuitous foreign travel should be avoided during this eclipse period

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13. 5 Jesus had acquired that type of human character which could preserve its composure and assert its dignity in the face of continued and gratuitous insult

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14. She told me that she would not object to nude scenes, as long as they are not gratuitous or pornographic in nature

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15. In fact, I became more aware that I was choosing words so as to avoid gratuitous sexual analogies

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16. ease of destruction, how we build a lifetime of love and then one gratuitous, irrational

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17. The only taboos for Jennifer were unnecessary, gratuitous or sadistic violence and the harming of true innocents, mostly meaning children

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18. has her hand up, too, but Joe, with a gratuitous smile on his face, picks

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19. “Helloooooooooooo, mein Capitanes!” but even this effervescent greeting combined with gratuitous passport waving still failed to elicit a response

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20. presence here is not exactly as gratuitous as I had imagined it would be

21. Keen effort is gratuitous and inspirational with a keen

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22. “There should be only gratuitous and not anguish towards Old Master Long

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23. ‘Once a man is born, as long as his heart is without guilt, able to end all gratuitous and vengeance, how it doesn’t matter if one is to die? Your father has warrior spirit that is passed

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24. Very soon, the gratuitous, the hatred, the love that had

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25. “We are grateful for you to lend us a helping hand, this piece of gratuitous is as heavy as the mountain! Allow me to bow to you!”

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26. We are happy, you are happy, we have a new house and great sex, what more could two deceased sixteen year old girls wish for?” The jest about their age was not exactly what Byron needed from Flower, but with sugar comes spice and the subtle reprimand was to reproach his gratuitous wallow into self-pity

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27. The gratuitous statement was given simply to comform one to the reality that they were being violated, internally searched, and that any hutechnic upgrades would be disabled during one's stay at the treatment center

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28. “The irrationality of psychopathy is not the emotional; its gratuitous irrationality is its lack of empathy

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29. There's romance and intrigue, it's far more than just a collection of gratuitous sexual encounters

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30. that it is a gratuitous interruption of the stream of the

31. The gratuitous violence of mass media mirrors the violence civilization is wreaking upon the living earth

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32. What was Monette trying to tell me with her suggestiveness, her gratuitous

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33. These ‘true’ beliefs are generated by questionable beliefs, attitudes, and faiths as an outcome of past and present experiences and the quest to achieve psycho-personal gratuitous benefits and gains

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34. More than 200,000 innocent people were, slaughtered in this gratuitous genocide

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35. We will explore how this seemingly gratuitous extravagant emphasis on violence, punishment and hell in both the Bible and the Qu’ran, and also implicitly advocated through the notions and concepts of ‘Karma’ and ‘Reincarnation’, can never ever be attributed to being the messages and words that come from the mind and will of a Creator

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36. He came into 'our' human world to show and inform us of whom He, the Creator, really is, and to make aware and inform us of the potentially destructive nature of human base instincts associated with gratuitous damaging choices made by humans as a result their freewill

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37. This process may result in living a life of self-centeredness, and gratuitous selfishness, and as a spiritual and psychological consequence, possibly harmful to Self’s inner being and others as a product of the aftermath

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38. Further, the idea of Hell is, by definition, conceivably simplistic, gratuitous and convenient as a spiritual ‘tool’ used for spiritual abuse and the oppression of Self

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39. We may behave in a way that would gain us as much as we could get, to satisfy our desires, needs and wants, bringing us pleasure, despite such behaviour being at the expense of others, whilst disregarding the negative affects of our gratuitous actions upon others

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40. A Being that lives consciously or unconsciously within the Creator’s great story of gratuitous mystical relational ‘love’, but which ultimately culminates in personal anatomical death, and perhaps also in personal psycho-spiritual immortality

41. These sorts of embellished self-serving and gratuitous writings potentially foster the harbouring within minds and hearts, of prejudice and hatred towards others

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42. this brief and frail life is wholly gratuitous

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43. It is the gratuitous invention of theologians who have forfeited the

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44. Perhaps he was, as Miss Leggett repeatedly insisted, no more than an trouble-maker, an abuser of little girl's dolls, a laundry tamperer, a gratuitous vandal

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45. gratuitous invention of theologians who have forfeited the claim to be

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46. the gratuitous invention of theologians who have forfeited the claim to be listened to in that matter by

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47. It is the gratuitous invention of theologians who have forfeited the claim to be listened to in that matter by their perverse departure from the record

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48. surely the assumption that our doctrine supposes that God punishes sinners eternally for sins committed in this brief and frail life is wholly gratuitous

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49. It held the truth on the gratuitous reckoning of righteousness; but supposed that an intellectual belief in this truth had a saving efficacy

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50. Their main theme was certainly not the main theme of the Apostles,—the gratuitous justification of sinners through the 'offering up of Christ once for all

51. It is an ingenious but gratuitous invention in criticism

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52. Let any one consider the proposition that the fall of Adam brought upon himself, for 'one offence,’ an eternity of sufferings—and brought this same penalty upon us, his posterity—whether by gratuitous imputation of guilt in which we had no share,—or by the inevitable consequence and operation of a corrupt nature transmitted to us,—or by the unasked possession of immortality either in the half or the whole of our nature,—and then say whether the provision of some such method as the gospel does not appear to be demanded by rigid justice

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53. The faith in a Divine Christ, in His Atonement for sin, in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, in a gratuitous Justification, is at least professed now nearly as it was of old

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54. Therefore, our evolution has resulted in the creation of certain strategies of resilience that allow us to avoid constant and gratuitous reconfigurations of ourselves

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55. And the calumnious, baseless, gratuitous, circumstantial lie charging poor Captain Smith with desertion of his post by means of suicide is the vilest and most ugly thing of all in this outburst of journalistic enterprise, without feeling, without honour, without decency

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56. To no baroness and her daughter during the evening, in the event of their accepting the box in class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera-box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king's ransom in his waistcoat pocket

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57. This gratuitous contribution of a humorous character occasioned a fair amount of laughter among his entourage

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58. Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of

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59. The gratuitous outrage appalled her

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60. Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous

61. Bambridge's weakness to be a gratuitous flatterer

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62. But this ill-tempered anticipation that she could desire visits which might be disagreeable to her husband, this gratuitous defence of himself against selfish complaint on her part, was too sharp a sting to be meditated on until after it had been resented

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63. Lydgate had often been satirical on this gratuitous prediction, and he meant now to be guarded

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64. Even the rumor of Reform had not yet excited any millennial expectations in Frick, there being no definite promise in it, as of gratuitous grains to fatten Hiram Ford's pig, or of a publican at the "Weights and Scales" who would brew beer for nothing, or of an offer on the part of the three neighboring farmers to raise wages during winter

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65. "It was understood from the beginning that my services would be gratuitous

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66. The self-sacrifice of a father or mother, or self-sacrifice with the possibility of a reward, is more comprehensible than gratuitous self-sacrifice, and therefore seems less deserving of sympathy and less the result of free will

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67. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou

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68. Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France

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69. Equality has an organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction

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70. The extinction of species has been involved in the most gratuitous mystery

71. One would approach at first warily through the shrub oaks, running over the snow-crust by fits and starts like a leaf blown by the wind, now a few paces this way, with wonderful speed and waste of energy, making inconceivable haste with his "trotters," as if it were for a wager, and now as many paces that way, but never getting on more than half a rod at a time; and then suddenly pausing with a ludicrous expression and a gratuitous somerset, as if all the eyes in the universe were eyed on him—for all the motions of a squirrel, even in the most solitary recesses of the forest, imply spectators as much as those of a dancing girl—wasting more time in delay and circumspection than would have sufficed to walk the whole distance—I never saw one walk—and then suddenly, before you could say Jack Robinson, he would be in the top of a young pitch pine, winding up his clock and chiding all imaginary spectators, soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time—for no reason that I could ever detect, or he himself was aware of, I suspect

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72. In Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provided for the people in the Hôtel de Ville of Paris in the reign of Louis XI

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73. Do you know, I could have knocked you down for that just now! You wounded me more cruelly than Epanchin, who thinks me capable of selling him my wife! Observe, it was a perfectly gratuitous idea on his part, seeing there has never been any discussion of it between us! This has exasperated me, and I am determined to make a fortune! I will do it! Once I am rich, I shall be a genius, an extremely original man

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74. Again there is in both telegrams a gratuitous mention of peace, which has nothing in common with the celebrations of the sailors

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75. No projectile force that we are acquainted with can throw a heavy body 100 miles, even though no atmospheric, or other resistance than its own gravity, were present; hence the idea of that force extending to thousands of miles from the moon's surface, is gratuitous and nugatory

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76. It was not until the close of the twelfth century that a council ordained the establishment of grammar schools in cathedrals for the gratuitous instruction of the poor; and not until a century later that the ordinance was carried into effect at Lyons

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77. McKee opposed the passage of the bill, on the ground that the President has no authority to expend the public money in gratuitous grants to individuals

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