Sentence examples for not wanton from inspiring English sources

Julie's lust, focussed and not wanton, invents Billy, just as we all invent our lovers, based on their physical qualities and who we want them to be.

She is not wanton like Catherine Millet, the French art critic and editor whose 2001 memoir graphically catalogs her never-ending anonymous sexual encounters — in swingers clubs, offices, parking lots, cemeteries and trucks in the Bois de Boulogne.

This ruthlessness was not mere wanton cruelty.

"We saw this as a political act, not as wanton vandalism," one of them told the magistrates in his defense.

"We're not increasing wanton coffee drinking, we're saying replace what you normally buy with fair-trade coffee," he said.

Their God simply would not permit wanton wrongdoing, nor would he allow the suffering and duress under which all creation labors.

Even when an attorney recommends against filing a lawsuit, the board must still make it clear by its actions that it does not condone wanton mismanagement and theft of its resources — especially by a director.

Torture and wanton killing not only were morally corrupting but corrupted discipline in a military organization.

That the government was taking in less didn't stop its fiscally wanton ways.

"Well something like that is a war crime, I don't support wanton killing of captured prisoners of war, that did not happen in Bosnia".

The judge also ruled that BP "was not grossly negligent, reckless, willful, or wanton" in its oil spill planning, meaning it won't face additional punitive damages.