Sentence examples for motivated by practicality from inspiring English sources

Before school began this year, he added, he did trim off a few inches, motivated by practicality rather than fashion: "I was starting to play football and long hair doesn't fit well under a helmet".

I'm motivated by practical questions.

The first time was motivated by the practicality of it: I was self-employed and without health insurance at the time.

The political situation precluded the buying of extra properties or big cars, so Kövesi's first steps into the art world were motivated by financial practicality – but he quickly fell in love with paintings.

Whether motivated by aesthetics or practicalities, the timing created a marvelous framework around this quiet, focused portrait in motion, which began with Mr. Le Roy rising from a table and walking with precise, mechanical shifts and jerks.

Patten's rejoinder is that, though British concern for democracy in Hong Kong may have been belated, it was nonetheless motivated by both principle and practicality.

The episode ended with the song "Both Sides, Now" and it's obsessed with bicoastal possibilities, motivated by Bob's likely bisexuality (or sexual practicality), and led by characters (Roger, Don, Ted) who want it all but can't have much of anything.

He was motivated by injustice.

Both are motivated by fetishes.

I was motivated by that.

Was motivated by political convictions.