Sentence examples for decent intentions from inspiring English sources

The EU budget is a complex web of exasperating, transnational pluses and minuses, decent intentions and half-baked, madcap ideas.

I asked him if there was a note on my door, or any sign that Jack-the-Ringer had decent intentions.

We need to confront hate before it loses its human connection, because when it does, all of our moral hand-wringing and good and decent intentions collapse in a pool of irrelevancy.

So here's hoping that the electricity of Paris will have given Ms Rudd the sort of shock that might jolt her from half-decent intentions into a real and lasting commitment to act.

Its plans, however decent the intention, are often executed badly.

The leisurely 2-hour-20-minute play is full of good intentions, decent talent and not an ounce of daring.

But he said the film's ultimate message was that any decent citizen with genuine intentions could run for office and ultimately do a better job than many elected officials.

If making a decent movie required only good intentions, then "Pray for Japan" would be off and running.

However decent the director's original intentions, "The Founder" emerges as the first Trumpist film of the new era.

Brown is a decent, humane man, with good intentions, a formidable intellect, and a sharp sense of humor, which he keeps well hidden.

Yet the exploiters, the incomers, can be decent people with agonisingly good intentions, muddled by suspicions and difficult, almost feudal loyalties of their own.