Sentence examples for lofty motives from inspiring English sources

A counsellor at the clinic in Germantown suggested to me that Brigham had less lofty motives.

Meanwhile, they have warmed to people who are efficient, but who make no claim to lofty motives.

The governor's staff argues loudly that there were less lofty motives, namely paychecks and the August vacations.

Today most people would surely agree that the war of 1914-1918 was not fought for the lofty motives that each side claimed, and that we all would be better off if it had not been fought at all.

"Although I can't claim very lofty motives in my drug taking," Sacks says, "it did occur to me that there might be a bonus, that the drugs might sensitize me to experiences of the sort my patients could have".

So it comes as no surprise that the attacks in Bergholz, which included the forced cutting of hair, were the work of a splinter group that believed somebody had betrayed the true cause, if the attacks can be credited with such lofty motives.

Why can't they use Schrödinger's full equation?" But in general, people who share this kind of article seem to have loftier motives than trying to impress their friends.

Most of those informed the PIS that it was their unalterable policy to reject all submitted ads that were known to be phony, no matter how lofty the motives that might have prompted them.

Buñuel could afford to be dry, humoring the lofty ascetic motives of his hero, whereas a director like Schneider, though fixated on period detail, is utterly modern in his sensibility, his moral duty being to bring Felix back into the fold, as if loneliness were an insult to our common ideals.

They did the cruelest things for the loftiest of motives; they sang hymns as they waded through blood.

He is Judge Taft and when we say that he is Judge Taft, we mean to imply that he represents all that is best in American manhood, involving integrity of character, a sane mind, and the loftiest of motives".