Sentence examples similar to expressive motives from inspiring English sources

No matter whether they were consuming for themselves, buying gifts for friends or going on holiday with family members, most interviewees were concerned with pleasure and comfort of oneself or other people, rather than an expressive motive like image management or wealth announcement.

This texture would be woven from basic thematic ideas, or leitmotivs ("leading motives"); these would arise naturally as expressive vocal phrases sung by characters at crucial emotional points of the drama and then be developed by the orchestra as "reminiscences" in accordance with the expressive need of the dramatic and psychological development of the action.

For every virtue, therefore, there must be some non-moral motive that characteristically motivates actions expressive of that virtue, which motive, by eliciting our approval, makes the actions so motivated virtuous.

Besides leading an autonomous life, guided by one's own, non-constrained reasons and motives, authenticity requires that these motives and reasons should be expressive of one's self-identity.

Ego-expressive (or symbolic) need.

Silvana in this example can be seen as very expressive and passionate and wants Fleur to join her in and almost share the same motive.

Emotionally expressive?

Too expressive.

He made hair expressive.

It is merely expressive.

Wonderfully expressive voice.