Sentence examples for without apparent motive from inspiring English sources

For relief he seduces a 16-year-old girl named Gabi whom he then, casually and without apparent motive, murders and deposits in an Alpine lake.

Death, brutal and without apparent motive... "), produced in the average recipient a reaction nearer that of Mother Truitt's than that of Mrs. Clare's: amazement, shading into dismay; a shallow horror sensation that cold springs of personal fear swiftly deepened.

A devilishly charming doctor (played by David Warner) is the culprit -- without apparent motive -- in Nicholas Meyer's "Time After Time" (1979), a whimsical movie that pokes fun at the whole Ripper phenomenon.

The crimes are committed without apparent motive beyond a hint of class-related antipathy – with Tony arguably representing the metropolitan elite so vilified by Republicans in this year's election campaign.

While there, he uses his pyrokinetic abilities to burn down a local bar without any apparent motive.

Emotionally, the pair are forever at cross-purposes, a confusion that reaches its apogee in Act 4 when, without warning or apparent motive, he races across the stage and hurls himself to his death.

He had no apparent motive or criminal record.

The police said the crime had no apparent motive.

Police said there was no apparent motive for the shooting.

But in at least one way, it's strikingly different: the apparent motive.

There was no apparent motive for the crime, and hardly any clues.