Sentence examples for wantonly and from inspiring English sources

The law banned people from "wantonly and cruelly" beating livestock.

It has been wantonly and systematically mutilated - to use a mild word.

In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court struck down the state's death-penalty law, because it was "so wantonly and so freakishly imposed".

Most stunningly, despite concluding that MortgageIT executives had "knowingly, wantonly and recklessly" lied to federal officials, Bharara's office had decided that none of them deserved jail time.

One of the concurring justices, Potter Stewart, wrote that the Constitution could not "permit this unique penalty to be so wantonly and freakishly imposed".

On shows like "CSI: NY" and now "Dark Blue," the dark lighting is stylish and atmospheric, but it is too often wantonly and indiscriminately applied.

The BBC is there to be purposely intelligent: but promiscuously and wantonly so.

In the new movie, the Abu Dabi Louvre, having risen as if by the slave labor that built the Pyramids at Giza, is descended upon by a fierce army of fanatics and marauders, wantonly looting and burning the masterpieces rented out from their Parisian guardians, laying waste to the patrimony of France.

But our lettuce withered under the sun in the hottest summer on record, and our tomatoes were wantonly picked and scattered to the winds by a neighbor's 2-year-old, who wiped out our harvest faster than a plague of locusts.

Horses and house pets are maimed, cabbages are wantonly decapitated and the only force more fearsome than the brutality of fathers is the innocence of children.

Rejected by Amis's German publisher and rubbished by key critics, it is supremely, wantonly funny and breathtakingly audacious.