In "Henry V," seen this season in a rousing production directed by Des McAnuff, the foreground may be given over to the patriotic pageant of the title character's triumphant invasion of France, but a comedy playing in counterpoint depicts the base motives of lesser mortals.
An artist's vision is lived, emotionally and physically, so that while a lesser performer will signboard motives and big moments, a subtler talent will experience the not always predictable flux of his character's emotions as the larger dramatic pattern unfolds as though on its own.
Moreover, external and intrinsic motives are mediating, to a greater or lesser degree, this relationship.
Moreover, external and intrinsic motives mediate this relationship to a greater of lesser degree.
On the Pokot side, payment of dowry and accumulation of wealth, and to a lesser extent, expansion of territory were found to be the strongest motives.
If international terrorism seemed too grandiose a motive for his wayward kin, he neatly dispatched them as something lesser — haters who were unable to "settle themselves" in a new country and therefore struck out at those who had.
Franco and his allies had carried out "the detention, torture, forced disappearance and physical elimination of thousands of people for political and ideological motives... a state of affairs that continued, to greater or lesser extent, after the civil war ended".
In lumping the forces attacking the United States and its allies in Iraq together with Al Qaeda and, to a lesser extent, with violent Palestinian organizations, he glossed over their differing agendas and motives and the varying threats they pose.
This is too neat a coup to not feel distracting, and Watson's well-toned twit is afforded excess airtime, leaving the lesser – and potentially more interesting – members of the gang with insufficient space for their motives to be heard.
One of the lesser problems of trying to bring peace to the Middle East is Israel's self-righteous insistence that her motives are invariably pure and self-defensive, whereas those of her enemies are invariably malign and bent on annihilation.
