without rhyme or reason

“It just feels like this program is being quietly killed without rhyme or reason.”

Harold Bloom notably argued that we read to learn more about the human condition; how can such education take place if books are banned without rhyme or reason?

The Justices believed that if trial courts were able to perform this task, the life-death decision would no longer be, as the leading death penalty abolitionist Anthony Amsterdam told the court, without rhyme or reason, unless the reason was race.

Randomness can refer to an anarchic process which throws up data without rhyme or reason - like the roll of a die or flip of a coin.

The Mohamud and Byrd cases, however, show that a circuit court can decide, without rhyme or reason, that if a person violating that guarantee possesses a federal badge, the person whose rights are violated has no right to a remedy.