Sentence examples for dropped motives from inspiring English sources

It took more liberties with the original novel than usual – plots were dropped, motives skewed, two characters conflated to make a serial-killing lesbian nun.

"All I could think was, 'Oh my God!' " Many executives in the Valley have not dropped their skepticism toward Microsoft's motives, of course.

Two Portuguese sheepherders were tried for the crime but acquitted; there was no evidence of a robbery or suggestion of some other motive, and the case was dropped.

As she explains, "This is a play where every motive is hidden somewhere, but just out of reach, dropped in the gaps.

I'm not sure his motives for dropping poor Marie are as complex as he makes them out to be, but I'm sure that he leaves their lunch that day feeling guiltless, well pleased with his own largesse.

We should ignore whatever explanation he has about the dropped handkerchief and resoundingly reject his candidacy, leaving it to historians to examine his motives.

He dropped the unappetizing hit man from his maw and loped toward his more delectable prey: Standing alone he has no motive to murder Daniel Malakov.

But Weiner had an ulterior motive for dropping by.

Einhorn would be the first to admit that he wanted Allied's stock to drop, which might make his motives seem impure to the general reader, but not to him.

There is a similar forthrightness to Henry L. Stimson's 1947 discussion of the motives behind the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.

After assigning a color, green, to a musical "motive," a melody was assembled by dropping purple raindrops onto a beige rectangle.