Sentence examples for simple motive from inspiring English sources
She had a simple motive for her actions offstage and a simple motivation for her public performances: she genuinely adored her husband, and the feeling was mutual.
Other officials suggested that a simple motive was at work — money.
The new rule is based around a simple motive: less kicking; more creative attacking set plays.
The masterminds behind suicide bombings have a simple motive, which is to scare the innocent into a way of life that is counter to their best interests.
His simple motive: greed.
She said many staffers still working in the national security agencies under Trump see what's happening and are driven by a simple motive: "Incredulity, and the need to share it".
After all, drug markets are essentially driven by two simple motives: profit and power.
Babies, he said, "cry out of simple motives to attract a caregiver when they are alone, hungry, or in pain".
The curious passages where Beethoven repeats simple motives for measures on end have seldom sounded so obsessive.
He's clearly excited by the way the medium can manipulate time and information, folding straightforward events and simple motives into Möbius strips of paradox and indeterminacy.
Herbert Muschamp manages not only to obscure these simple motives but even to suggest that the tower would enable The Times to "give back, through architecture, the good fortune it has enjoyed".
