"guiding reason" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the main or predominant reason for something. For example: "The guiding reason behind my decision to change careers was my desire for more growth and challenge."
Ms. Kruger is appropriately inappropriate and cold in the role, but she doesn't fully pull off the impersonation — Sonya's insensibility seems to switch on and off without any guiding reason.
With pre-1970s cinema still a regrettably sparse shelf in the Netflix library, it's hard to determine much guiding reason behind certain vintage selections: Stanley Kramer's modestly regarded On the Beach seems a particularly random recent addition.
Again it also looks really cool, but Vahana strangely did not mention this in their official comments as a guiding reason.
John Finnis also points to principles of morality as guiding reason in a way that does not depend upon comparing incommensurable values (1997).
It is quite literally a company's guiding reason for existence on the planet.
For example, for patients with systemic inflammatory diseases, such as lupus nephritis, who have been reported to experience worse prognosis in the presence of low 25D levels [20] and who are suggested to benefit from vitamin D replacement therapy, the ratio values might help to guide reasoned choices between natural or active metabolites.
Anger, when moderated and guided by reason, can also motivate reasonable and due vengeance (De sera 551A-B).
Thus, the philosophy of self-respect taught that human actions should be guided by reason, right and wrong should follow from rational thinking and conclusions drawn from reason should be respected under circumstances.
It dances, lightly and clearly, every step guided by reason and taste.
Many are deeply unsympathetic characters that it is easy to want removed from sight, but if we want to prevent future problems we need to be guided by reason, not rage.
And, like millions of others, my modest offering will put me in the camp of "warm glow" givers: people whose contributions to charity stem from local, personal and spontaneous incentives, seldom guided by reason or research.
