Sentence examples for wanton war from inspiring English sources

When Picasso cuts up faces and pastes them on canvases, there's no real violence done; were Le Corbusier to have demolished the old Paris and replaced it with "stark towers," it would have been a criminal act on a historic scale, comparable to a wanton war.

Illegal wars, wanton deaths of U.S. soldiers, an unjust distribution of wealth all just go on without any serious outrage.

What would it take, though, to remember not just the wanton suffering of total war but ambiguity, confusion – even guilt?

The United Nations' cultural agency Unesco has condemned the wanton destruction as a war crime.

Although I'm a 41-year-old woman, thoughts of lead vocalist Joe Elliot belting out tunes about wine, war and wanton desire left me giddy inside.

Its public coffers have been drained dry by useless wars and wanton misspending.

OF THE many horrors of the Yugoslav wars, the wanton destruction of the Croatian town of Vukovar by Serb artillery, as well as the expulsion or massacre of much of its population in 1991, was one of the worst.

Scars remaining from the Soviet war two decades ago show wanton destruction here.

In June, the government issued a statement saying that the country considered the movie an "act of war" and a "wanton act of terror".

The government issued a statement about the film, in which the actors star as two journalists ordered by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un, saying that the country considered the movie "an act of war" and a "wanton act of terror".

In June 2014, North Korea threatened a "merciless" retaliation on the USA if it did not ban The Interview, labelling the movie "an act of war" and a "wanton act of terror", and Rogen himself a "gangster filmmaker".