“motives”簡單造句，motives造句子

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

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

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.

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.

To understand these motives is not to condone them.

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

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.

He has sordid motives on us.

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

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

I remain dubious about her motives.

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

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.

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

Critics allege that the government has ulterior motives.

I elaborated people's motives all too profusely.

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

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.

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.