"It seems to me that when a primary motive for conceiving a child is to produce tissue or an organ, we are getting very close to seeing this new being as a means to another end.
And if it is true that probably lots of children have been conceived because of more or less selfish motives (keeping a realm, keeping a husband, help on the land and so on), today it seems that technology only compounds our dark motives, bringing out the worst in women and men.
Unlike most directors at the landmark Shakespeare festivals in China (1986 and 1994), who were concerned more with political aspects than with aesthetic implications of dramatic appropriation, Wu conceived and spearheaded his project with very strong personal motives.
Certainly there are no grounds to impugn either the motives or the intentions of the researchers from the UK who conceived and executed this trial.
Internalization is conceived as the process by which people develop a psychological need or motive to conform to a set of shared norms.
Bauer described self-consciousness, conceived as an immanent and subjective universality, as the motive force of history, generating historical content by taking up and transforming the given.
Through the study of projects conceived to shape colonial space, this article aims to reconsider the motives and means of French colonial expansion in West Africa in the 1880s and 1890s.
The movie's producer is Steven Spielberg, and "Super 8" shares with Spielberg's work an absence of Id: its motives and resolutions are sociable, reasonable, and humane — extending all the way to the (thinly conceived and poorly revealed) monster.
We were conceived in violence and its echoes linger just under the surface of our motives.
First, Live Aid was conceived by young people who, given that they came from the nihilistic punk culture, had their motives mercilessly questioned.
