This fundamental imperative of connectedness burst upon Americans with horrific force when we understood, in a flash of fire and ash, the suicidal hijackers' single-minded motive.
There are also more high-minded motives.
The chairman himself tried to suggest more high-minded motives.
He said he would be above party.But the senators have less high-minded motives for their diligence.
The leakers may or may not have had high-minded motives, but the commission of a serious felony is not excused by the existence of such motives.
FEW topics have been more thoroughly winnowed and sifted than...our present quarrel with China...There can be no doubt that our diplomatic representatives abroad ought to be chosen with the utmost care and from the most pure and single-minded motives.
It may seem insensitive to point this out, given the filmmakers' high-minded motives, but the lack of cinematic imagination narrows both the emotional and intellectual scope of the movies themselves, leaving the viewer feeling vaguely sad, vaguely hopeful and only partly illuminated.
This diplomatic variant of condescension may at times have been engendered by high-minded motives.
War can be rationalized by calling it "humanitarian intervention" and emphasizing high-minded motives.
Regulating the right to smoke out of practical existence, however, no matter how foolish the habit, remains an assault on personal freedom, high-minded motives notwithstanding.
According to series creator Eric Kripke, the writers conceptualized the character as "someone [the Winchesters have] really never come across before" because, though she moves throughout the supernatural world, Bela has no interest in the "altruistic or obsessed or revenge-minded motives of hunting".
