motiveless

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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

Some resistance was more overtly political; the critic Elaine Showalter, on Twitter, decried a plotline of the “saintly academic hero tormented by motiveless malignity of his despicable wife and other monsters.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

Heath Ledger’s sensational supporting role as the Joker in The Dark Knight was a compelling picture of pure, motiveless evil and chaos – still the best supervillain in superhero film history.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2018

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 Sheppard, Nathan