motives造句

He has sordid motives on us.

I remain dubious about her motives.

I elaborated people's motives all too profusely.

To understand these motives is not to condone them.

Critics allege that the government has ulterior motives.

The three main motives for stalking are love, hate and predation.

There are people of goodwill on both sides, and actors with murkier motives.

But it is unclear who is behind the campaign and what their motives are.

One reason people deny that altruism exists is that, looking inward, they doubt the purity of their own motives.

The burgeoning influence of Qatar in the Arab world arouses admiration, suspicion and puzzlement. But its motives are mainly pragmatic.

When we ask whether human beings are altruistic, we want to know about their motives or intentions.

If people possess altruistic motives, then they sometimes act to benefit others without the prospect of gain to themselves.

Rather than focus on the innuendo about my motives and beliefs in the review, let me focus instead on differences of substance.

The police are confident that the latest outbreak was incited by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, though its motives can only be guessed at.

Not that any movie is worth such sacrifice, but Apocalypse Now nailed the madness of Americans lost in a jungle of misguided motives and foreign-policy screwups.

So the psychological lure of egoism as a theory of human action is partly explained by a certain humility or skepticism people have about their own or others' motives.

There is also the unholy glee with which they have set about destroying an icon of the anti-global warming movement, the Nobel Laureate R.K Pachauri, by attributing financial motives to his research.

I'm glad to see you out of doors again, Mr Lockwood, 'he said, in reply to my greeting;' from selfish motives partly: I don't think I could readily supply your loss in this desolation.

At the core of the row lies the Kremlin's deep-rooted conviction that the rest of the world works in the same way as Russia, which is merely more honest and less artful in concealing its motives.