Sentence examples for ambiguous motives from inspiring English sources

But at its best "Traitor" feels less like the usual rushed, contrived action-travelogue than like an intimately scaled drama of ambiguous motives and fretful moral dilemmas.

But even ambiguous motives need to be strongly felt, and we never understand what drove Faith to leave home, much less to join up with a gang of German terrorists and then leap from a picturesque Portuguese cliff.

A coming-of-age comedy with the pace and structure of a thriller, "Poison Friends" casts a knowing, sympathetic eye around the fevered precincts of youthful literary and academic ambition, a realm of passion, jealousy and ambiguous motives.

"I don't think it is necessarily likely that he will get the death penalty, because the circumstances are too ambiguous and the motives are not clear," Mr. Fletcher said.

They command ambiguous characters with motives as yet to-be-determined in a game of life that isn't otherwise particularly directive.

Consequently, current racial conflicts tend to involve "ambiguous facts and inscrutable motives".

Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but he was apparently hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been ceded to the United States in the disputed 1804 Treaty of St . Louis

John's motives are more ambiguous — he arrives with his identity concealed behind a mask — and Che Ayende's performance lends the character a wily energy.

As the information moves closer to us, to the mobile lock screen and other surfaces that are available and accessible for us all the time, its origins and background motives become more ambiguous than ever.

In this richly ambiguous structure, the newly introduced motive would be regarded by the criterion of key, as the second subject; in purely thematic terms, it might almost be said to constitute the beginning of the codetta, or concluding section.

His motivations were ambiguous.