"This is such a senseless, tragic action," Lafayette's police chief, Jim Craft, said on Friday.
The worst kinds of pictures were those in which I was directly responsible for harm to myself or someone close to me, not through omission – like a plug left in the wall – but through some senseless action, something stupid that I wouldn't want to do but would somehow wind up doing anyway.
As the writer Lyra Kilston observed in the magazine Modern Painters, in words that could just as well describe the life of many a New York office worker, the trials in Ms. Gilmore's work "thwart victorious resolution," and even if the hapless striver succeeds, "we see a vaguely confused expression that seems to question why she was engaged in the senseless action to begin with".
Later vice-president Biden and his wife Jill put out a joint statement, saying "the senseless actions of a coward have once again cut short so many lives with so much promise".
A detailed story of the apparently senseless actions of Lise, a deranged woman in her mid-30's, who goes on holiday to Italy.
The New Yorker, May 16, 1970 P. 38 A detailed story of the apparently senseless actions of Lise, a deranged woman in her mid-30's, who goes on holiday to Italy.
By Muriel Spark The New Yorker, May 16, 1970 P. 38 A detailed story of the apparently senseless actions of Lise, a deranged woman in her mid-30's, who goes on holiday to Italy.
In 2007, the vice-minister of construction launched a similar attack on the "senseless actions" of officials who knocked down precious sites and cultural relics to produce identikit cities.
In a statement Mr Khalil's family said: "The cowardly and senseless actions that took place on Khalil's doorstep in the early hours of 21 October will permanently remain with the family.
In obsessive-compulsive disorder, the individual experiences obsessions with or without compulsions (a sense of having to carry out certain ritualized and senseless actions against their wishes).
