"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They share only a few scenes, the villain still has the same basic motive, and both contain explicit gore and violence.
- You left out one of those basic human motives for violence before.
- It jumped around from one thing to another, yet every one of those things was part of the same basic motive.
- As he wrote in introducing the page, his basic motive was to provide a window on the ideas and opinions of non-journalists.
- The basic motive for continuing with the groups - the cementing of business relationships - remains as strong as ever.
- He maintained that the basic motive for free trade is human self-interest.
- But some conservationists say a more basic motive is also involved - a sentimental attachment to a beautiful place.
- It was a basic motive, almost simple, that would have sounded mawkish if spoken.
- "Those basic motives for violence that science is unable to filter: love, hate, greed, envy, anger."
- The whole work is based on one single basic motive, from which all themes are developed.
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