It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it.

We could not have imagined for a moment that our son would do this senseless act.

And senseless acts, once given some context by those reporting them, are increasingly presented raw.

This was a senseless act, as it condemned the besiegers (and all their sick and wounded and noncombatants) to live in tents through the hot weather and monsoon rain seasons.

It was such a senseless act.