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We now understand, more clearly than in the 1950s, that the consequences of human action on a global scale are rather like Godzilla: huge, unknowable, motiveless and not easily stopped.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

Mr Blunt said: "This appears to be a completely motiveless, random, senseless, inexplicable incident."

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

A conscious re-examination of the motiveless malice that leads Iago to destroy Othello and Desdemona, “Billy Budd” will probably stand as the last tragedy in English.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020

Claims about reckless constitutional damage have proved, however, a convenient front for motiveless malignity.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020

But how are we to be guaranteed against “one of those convulsive motiveless actions by which wretched men and women leap from a temporary sorrow into a lifelong misery?”

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Nathan Sheppard


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