Sentence examples for confusing motives from inspiring English sources
Sometimes they would have a setting or a mood but no story, or a narrator with confusing motives.
Micah is neither a saint nor a mouthpiece, but a young guy with sometimes confused motives and ideas.
Now 50 years later, I have learned that some women judge, confuse motives, misinterpret intentions, overreact and point fingers, accusing other women of things that are just not true.
That may be to confuse the motive with the man.
If they maintained that the content of the evaluative proposition is either identical with the volition or causes it, then they were confusing the "moral motive" with the "physical efficient," the physical efficient being the element of the cause that provides the active power (D 73, W 2.565).
Her characters are flawed, their motives confused, their prospects limited.
It's also of concern any time people confuse actions with motives, as does Mr. Voight.
Ms. McAndrew fills out the more nuanced role of Connie believably, although her character's mixed motives are sometimes confusing.
The judgments of several judges in various cases, including Devlin J in R. v Adams appear to confuse causality with motive: where there is a strong moral imperative to clear the defendant, causality is doubted, rather than the mental element (mens rea).
A mutual seduction scene by Platt and Anita, meant to be fraught with psychological implications, is so without credible motive for either character that it is simply confusing.
