Sentence examples for gratuitous act from inspiring English sources

It would be a gratuitous act of self-harm.

As a gratuitous act of self-publicity, David Blaine's starvation stunt was unparalleled.

I would call it hospitality, but that sounds like a gratuitous act, but it was so genuine.

Whether meant as a Gidean "gratuitous act" or a means of survival, the shooting certainly complicates our attitude toward Michel.

"Following this tragedy all Quebecois are mourning today before such a gratuitous act of violence," she said.

Picasso was fascinated by Dora's gratuitous act of self-mutilation, playing with a knife as one would with fire.

Occasionally, official orders were used for justifying gratuitous acts of violence.

Ms. Rovera described seeing buildings burned completely in many areas, an indication, she said, that incendiary devices and chemicals were being used systematically by Syrian forces to destroy homes in "gratuitous" acts of retribution after battles with opposition forces.

The number of incidents involving the LRA has dramatically increased since December 2011, from almost none in the final months of 2011 to 33 so far in 2012 but, in nearly every case, gratuitous acts of violence have been replaced by pillaging, looting and short-term abductions.

They have followed up with gratuitous acts of transparency: an invitation to inspectors to visit the new site, an offer to send uranium to Russia for processing and quantifying.

On occasion he has been shot at, stabbed, and, by his own admission, committed gratuitous acts of violence and other activities the law frowns on.