Gratuitously

As last year’s destabilising visit by senior US Democrat showed, gratuitously provoking Beijing can be seriously counter-productive.

At the pre-arranged hour of 12.55pm, a pulsating, propulsive sequence began with Ivan and Matija gratuitously starting a fight in the courthouse foyer as a diversion.

But the agency certainly doesn’t scold the lower court judge for taking a broadside against the practice – gratuitously in the opinion of the pay TV programmers.

What strikes me watching all this is how gratuitously creepy it is.

Nigeria’s diplomatic ties with other countries cannot be said to be sound when its citizens abroad with legitimate rights of residence or visit are gratuitously harassed, killed and their property destroyed.

We should also judge those who think it fine to gratuitously insult through the elevation of a statue, the many people in Bristol whose ancestors suffered unimaginable horrors and suffering because of Colston.

Speaking on the committee, he said: “We must thank all of you for gratuitously accepting to work with our PGF Secretariat team to support all our Progressive Governors achieve the vision of rolling out progressive governance initiatives in all APC states.

The lawyer encounters violent police harassment and a gratuitously corrupt district attorney (Rafe Spall), while Stevenson’s assistant (Cretton’s frequent collaborator Brie Larson, in a thankless role) fields bomb threats at her home.

No: The thoughts of Labour’s Emily Thornberry, speaking on Question Time in 2013, shortly after Tory Ken Clarke had compared the burka to “a bag” — which is surely just as gratuitously offensive as Johnson comparing the burka to a letterbox.

The antagonist is another "bloodmaster", Damian Julian, a vampire with hypnotic powers committed to the old ways who has his followers not only kill humans, but also to do so in a gratuitously cruel way.