Sentence examples for gratuitous pain from inspiring English sources

How can he live with himself after imposing such gratuitous pain upon the people of this nation?

Torturing a victim to extract secret information may be rationalised, but if there is no obvious gain why cause gratuitous pain?

Olson, who together with David Boies secured a historic victory in the supreme court in June last year which restored marriage equality in California, said: "Virginia's marriage laws are needlessly mean-spirited and cause harsh and gratuitous pain and humiliation to gay and lesbian Virginians and their families.

Circuses may be transgressing the Jewish edict of tzaar ba'alei chaim, the commandment to avoid inflicting gratuitous pain on animals.

But he can't make internal devaluation work on his own, and he can't save Europe if its leaders continue to think that gratuitous infliction of pain is sound policy.

And so if you want to contrast the stoicism of the postwar populace with the anger and confusion of today's voters, don't blame consumerism; blame our leaders, who have imposed gratuitous, unfair pain on their constituents, who are finally starting to figure it out.

There are a number of gratuitous scenes of pain and violence in the novel, including an almost leering description of Bill extracting a calf from its mother's body with cables attached to its legs.

Prieto's attorneys asked the court to delay the execution until Virginia officials disclose more information about the supply of pentobarbital they received from Texas, saying they're concerned about the quality of the drugs and whether they would bring Prieto "gratuitous and unnecessary pain".

"It is in the fantasies of the infernal, as they literally haunt Western sensibility, that we find the technology of pain without meaning, of bestiality without end, of gratuitous terror".

Pain is the best teacher; but seeking pain for the sake of truth can become gratuitous in itself, and becomes more illusion.

Mars-Jones puts us through a great deal of pain, and at times one must wonder if there is a gratuitous or sadistic pleasure in inflicting it upon us.