Sentence examples for set of motives from inspiring English sources

In Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, it is made clear that there are two Alan Bennetts: the person living his life; and the writer, the latter having an entirely different set of motives and motivations to the former, which must somehow be balanced and reconciled.

Most scholars and journalists have a standard set of motives with which to make sense of civil conflict.

A small set of motives, present to some extent in all people, helps explain how leaders behave.

As for Amazon, the fact that it has a set of motives different from Barnes & Noble's is meaningless.

Previous research has evaluated marijuana motives among adolescents and emerging adults using a predetermined set of motives, largely adapted from the alcohol literature.

And nobody assumes that these wrongdoers are all driven by the same set of motives — let alone by a discrete mental illness.

Sometimes, Bentham appears to allow for a more diverse set of ultimate motives or interests, including other-regarding motives (Principles X 25, X 36 38, XI 31; Table of the Springs of Action II 2).

He juxtaposed contrasting rhythmic and timbral elements, assigning each group its own set of melodic motives and intervals.

This study examines a diverse set of social motives (e.g. peer support, peer pressure, social loneliness) for e-cigarette use, through the mediating effects of opinion leadership, among both male and female adolescents.

They have a distinct ideology and set of political motives.

Each member of Sweeney's family has an interlocking set of musical motives that dramatically binds them, each a variation of the Dies Irae theme we first hear in the opening ballad, 'Swing your razor wide, Sweeney,' and the entire work grows organically from it.