Sentence examples for method and motive from inspiring English sources

For others, it was a time for speculation about method and motive.

Uncomradely questions to sitting councillors and the MP, challenging the chair's method and motive, defining the politics of the speaker before they have defined their own.

(Did I mention bizarre?) The victims were all women who left the service after bringing sexual harassment charges against superior officers, but both method and motive are inscrutable.

The pitch-perfect Mr. Gordon — seated at a simple table with a glass of water, as Mr. Gray usually was in performance — reads from the journals, which often articulate the method and motive behind the exhibitionism.

No. Erick may be dead right in demanding the orphans be freed, but the Open Content Alliance is dead wrong in both their method and motives for making that happen.

"The methods and motives are very complex.

Understanding psychotic methods and motives will hardly feel edifying to viewers fretting over larger threats.

But some of the legislators are questioning his methods and motives.

Those in the anything-goes British press corps had already been suspicious of one another's methods and motives.

Again and again, critics pick apart the authors' methods and motives rather than engage with the thornier issues of taboo and transgression.

There, members of the crew debate the merits of the film, scrutinize and interpret Greaves's methods and motives, criticize his abilities, intuit his ideas.