Subjects that are considered taboo are tackled, with 'a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and a comic sensibility'.

In January 1950, he was caught after a gratuitously violent robbery.

He then starts telling us about some gratuitously violent video he's been watching.

Describing the assault as unprovoked and gratuitously violent, the prosector stated: "The attack nearly pulled the plug on his beatbox career."

This is not a gratuitously violent scene.

But they are trapped in such a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film that it's impossible to say for certain.

Criminal perpetrators often operate in groups of three to four individuals, and may occasionally be confrontational and gratuitously violent.

"I would have a difficult time doing something gratuitously violent just for the sake of box office," he said.

It's a recipe, in this case, for a virtually unreadable book that manages to be simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent.