Sentence examples for Concealed motives from inspiring English sources

Unlike the paranoid conspiracy thrillers that are their fraternal twins, inside-baseball movies do not turn on hidden agendas and concealed motives.

There is the drink, the world-weariness, the deadpan humour and the sense of concealed motives, unknown connections and brutal, ugly truths yet to be unearthed.

It's a masterful story, pregnant with fluctuating interpretations and concealed motives, in which Constantine allows the argument to erupt out of nothing.

Britain's contenders are Levy, shortlisted for the Booker last year and this time picked for her collection Black Vodka, which includes a story in which a hunchbacked man has a date with his perfect girl, and Constantine, chosen for Tea at the Midland, a collection which the Guardian called "masterful … pregnant with fluctuating interpretations and concealed motives".

The long tradition of our courts has been to let presidential proclamations speak for themselves, without looking at concealed motives.

The same forces can be applied to deflect and misdirect; imply and insinuate; and propagate the cover of shadows where conflicts are concealed, motives camouflaged.

Is there some concealed political motive, or is he just letting off steam?

Perhaps it is because we need some vagueness behind which to conceal unworthy motives, for the sake of other people's feelings as well as our own.

Spain is particularly aggrieved at this.The fuss over language may conceal other motives.

As eager as any murderer to conceal his motives, Hitchcock laid a maze of false trails to confound his trackers.

Greve proves to be a formidable and persistent foe, once Brown learns to suspect him and realizes that Greve's unattended Rubens might be a ruse concealing nefarious motives.