acted

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He re-steals what has already been stolen, and, from that moment—more of an acte gratuit than a spasm of greed—the film grows into a caustic comedy, rife with fidgety questions.

From The New Yorker • May 24, 2019

At 17 he shocks himself when he signs up with the Marines, an acte gratuit that prompts his mother to remark, “I’m surprised they let a person just take himself away like that.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

You can see the killing in several ways: as an existentialist acte gratuit straight out of Sartre, or as a means of creating a strong second-act curtain.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2010

Much art today," says Ghika, "is an acte gratuit�done for the sake of doing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was from this commentum, the equivalent of a French acte d'accusation, that the Commentariensis derived his title.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas