| 单词 | motiveless |
| 例句 | The crime, clueless and apparently motiveless, had taken place Saturday night, December 19, at the Walker home, on a cattle-raising ranch not far from Tallahassee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Most disturbingly, mild-mannered Asheq, who was exposed to violence as a kid, stages a motiveless attack. First sight: Sam Rumbelow 2011-08-04T20:30:01Z Scholars and theatergoers have debated that question at least since Coleridge stood aghast at his "motiveless Malignity." 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z Though Markos occasionally erupts into Iago-like utterances that suggest that he, too, is a creature of motiveless evil, we know why he’s bad. Theater Review: ‘Venice,’ by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax, Teems With Action 2013-06-14T03:18:01Z It is ever present in the corners of one's field of vision, apparently motiveless and meaningless beyond it's own assertion of presence. The culture of tube graffiti is dying 2012-07-09T12:50:00Z When a seemingly motiveless "serial slapper" starts leaving the citizens of a quiet commuter suburb with their cheeks a-stinging, the whole town is thrown off-balance. What our writers love this week 2011-09-21T22:50:14Z In contrast, a late-night encounter between Doc and Kenneth has a feeling of satanic evil, of pure motiveless malice unleashed upon an uncomprehending world. Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z It appears to be generous, motiveless, beyond reason, holy. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z Heath Ledger’s sensational supporting role as the Joker in The Dark Knight was a compelling picture of pure, motiveless evil and chaos – still the best supervillain in superhero film history. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actor of all time? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Verne's fantasy has darkly prophetic undertones: not least the creation of Captain Nemo as a form of motiveless, ocean-dwelling, international terrorist. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2010-06-02T21:01:00Z Boredom, alienation and unemployment are part of it, but it also seems to be a motiveless virus, a group neurosis, a contagious wave of futility and defeat that Lewis compares to the plague. Film review: Shed Your Tears and Walk Away 2010-06-10T21:47:00Z Literature provides an oblique line of approach to the awful complexities of his predicament, to Nasreen's apparently motiveless malice. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z We now understand, more clearly than in the 1950s, that the consequences of human action on a global scale are rather like Godzilla: huge, unknowable, motiveless and not easily stopped. Godzilla Is Warning Us Again about the Threats to Our Planet 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It was reptilian, insensate, Coleridge’s monster of “motiveless malignity.” Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr Blunt said: "This appears to be a completely motiveless, random, senseless, inexplicable incident." Julia James murder trial: Callum Wheeler is a 'angry, violent, sexualised man' 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In some respects it evokes Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s perception of the “motiveless malignity” of Shakespeare’s Iago. Column: Brace yourself for Trump's scorched-earth attacks on health and safety 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z A man has been sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in prison for the "motiveless" murder of a 73-year-old. Man jailed for 'motiveless' murder of 73-year-old 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Claims about reckless constitutional damage have proved, however, a convenient front for motiveless malignity. Now Harry and Meghan are going, time to look at the true royal horrors | Catherine Bennett 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z It seemed to the psychiatrist a crime of envy, an act of “motiveless malignity”. The making of a bedsit Nazi: who was the man who killed Jo Cox? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z At the time, Kent police said Ford’s actions were a “motiveless crime and a senseless crime” and described him as a “very dangerous man.” One of the men who stopped the London Bridge terrorist is a convicted murderer 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z He had no criminal record, and reporters seemed at a loss to explain why he might have killed a police officer; the News referred to the crime as “an apparently motiveless stab-killing.” Prepping for Parole 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Some resistance was more overtly political; the critic Elaine Showalter, on Twitter, decried a plotline of the “saintly academic hero tormented by motiveless malignity of his despicable wife and other monsters.” John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It feeds into an overarching narrative ethos that says Michael Myers — an avatar of pure, banal, motiveless evil — will kill and kill again in ways that are not just inevitable but borderline predictable. Review: A nasty, nimble ‘Halloween’ sequel finds this horror franchise in pretty good shape - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Explanations for deliberate acts of criminality are sometimes not available; although these occasions are comparatively rare, there are motiveless crimes with no suggestion of any diagnosed disease of the mind. The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Killings, whether their perpetrators are fairly called “mentally ill,” can be motiveless in significant ways. The Las Vegas Massacre Report and the Rise of Second Amendment Nihilism 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Everybody seemed to have an opinion about the guilt or innocence of Porto and Basterra, yet nobody could explain such an apparently motiveless crime. Why did two parents murder their adopted child? | Giles Tremlett 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z From all appearances, there are sociopaths out there happily acting out of “motiveless malignity.” Southern whites will not surrender: They believe their own Hobby Lobby, Cracker Barrel psychopathology 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z "The murders were motiveless... if any petty gain had been achieved in the process, the violence inflicted on the victims was totally disproportionate to any such gain," he wrote. Raman Raghav: When India's 'Jack the Ripper' terrorised Mumbai - BBC News 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z At his sentencing in the High Court in Glasgow on 8 September, Judge Lady Rae said Pacteau had carried out a "brutal, senseless and motiveless attack on a defenceless young woman". Karen Buckley murder: Alexander Pacteau appeals against sentence - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The court heard he planned the motiveless attack by taking the knife from an upstairs room of the four-star hotel and golf club the day before. Beheading killer's term 'justified' 2013-05-17T16:29:57Z Speaking about the "motiveless and completely unprovoked case" of the 16-year-old Plaistow girl, the Metropolitan police detective superintendent, Helen Millichap, said: "It's unusual for us to come across a crime of this nature." How an online neighbourhood watch could help tackle violent crime 2012-11-23T14:00:03Z Michael Herbison was violently murdered by these men in a cowardly and apparently motiveless attack. Two guilty of river body murder 2012-09-20T11:57:35Z I relate this occurrence, to show how motiveless such trespasses may be. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z He leaves too much unexplained; too many actions motiveless; too many portraits floating indistinct like the night and river studies of Whistler. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z As to the second cause, we are at a loss to conceive why Mr. Stanton should harbor such motiveless malignity against the reputation of his former colleague, then his pliant subordinate, and always his friend. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z It seemed a motiveless thing to do, particularly as he had chosen to involve himself. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The other apparently motiveless attack was the attack on Mr Sarwar. Blood money 2011-03-01T07:33:16Z She felt that the explanation given by Thrall and Roberts was not true—that the shooting had not been accidental; but she supposed it had been the motiveless act of a drink-maddened man. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z "This process of essence into emanation, whereby if this be that comes to be, cannot be attributed to motiveless, insentient things." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy These six are but few of the many rejected reasons for that one cross of the stage; still Mr. Daly would not permit a motiveless action, and we came to a momentary standstill. Life on the Stage In the nature of the case, as will appear, no story accounting for such wild events could be easily credible, so extraordinary, motiveless, and inexplicable do the circumstances appear. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery The Lahore case is also full of apparently motiveless actions. Blood money 2011-03-01T07:33:16Z The swelling inundation rolls from street to street; the alarm bells are rung; all Paris composes one mighty, resistless mob, motiveless, aimless, but ripe for any deed of desperation. Maria Antoinette Makers of History The Gauls brought this kind of weaving with them from the East, and probably invented the pattern, if such a motiveless design can be so called. Needlework As Art The secrecy he's kept as to his whereabouts—the perfectly needless and motiveless secrecy, as far as his children are concerned—would be a strong point in favor of the theory of insanity. The Quality of Mercy Nor is it a caprice, that is, motiveless volition, or will as a motor. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion To lead Beppo on the leash, as Steptoe had perceived, gave a reason for an excursion which would otherwise have seemed motiveless. The Dust Flower But how are we to be guaranteed against “one of those convulsive motiveless actions by which wretched men and women leap from a temporary sorrow into a lifelong misery?” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete So a common cheap chintz or carpet, with a poor, gaudy, motiveless design, carries a bad style into thousands of homes wherever our commerce extends; disgracing us, while it corrupts the taste of other nations. Needlework As Art Here they swayed to and fro, hour after hour, motiveless, awaiting the progress of events. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature It partly explains the hostility of Apollo, who is not a mere motiveless Destroyer but a true Olympian crushing his Earth-born rival. Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes She had moods of motiveless irritation, and of unreasonable indulgence. The Son of Monte-Cristo It is to be regretted that the modern designs are motiveless, and not so beautiful as the old ones, and it is very difficult to have any ancient piece of work copied exactly. Needlework As Art There it was—an open hostility with more power behind it than Deklay's motiveless disapproval had carried. The Defiant Agents He was forcibly struck with the blind and comparatively motiveless pugnacity of the squire's conduct. Robert Elsmere Shouting, yelling, half motiveless execration rang stunningly in his ears, spreading even amongst those who had not yet seen him, and only knew there was a man to be reviled. Romola Hallo! what’s the matter?” he continued, as, in what seemed to be a motiveless way, the boy threw sixpence over the side. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy I would pray, as a man in mortal terror, against the bottomless pit of a motiveless existence. Men in the Making To loathe flesh and blood, to will the annihilation of flesh and blood, is to be a victim of that original "motiveless malignity" which opposes itself to the creative force. The Complex Vision But the vivider and the keener grew this new mental life of Elsmere's, the more constant became his sense of soreness as to that foolish and motiveless quarrel which divided him from the squire. Robert Elsmere He told me of the paroxysms of motiveless nervous dread which used to beset him in the night-watches. Memories and Studies The characteristic of Iago is that deep motiveless malignity which rejoices in evil as its proper element—which loves evil as good men love virtue. Short Studies on Great Subjects As the crime was apparently motiveless, it was certain that the motive was deep and carefully hidden. The Hand in the Dark It is also a sign of the stiffening of the resistant "malice," or "motiveless malignity," which opposes creation. The Complex Vision Yes, if it were motiveless to win the most beautiful creature in England! The Two Admirals Even the frankest of girls—and I believe Ellaline to be as frank as her sex allows—can be secretive in an apparently motiveless way. Set in Silver These impulses are not vile; our moral code does not cry out against them as it does against lust, greed, and motiveless cruelty. The Growth of English Drama I had speculated about the hidden motives of apparently motiveless crimes. Dr. Dumany's Wife There is such a thing�and this is the point I am anxious to make�as motiveless will. The Complex Vision The occurrences are, to all appearance, motiveless as the events in a feverish dream. Historical Mysteries The characteristic of Iago is that deep motiveless malignity which rejoices in evil as its proper element, which loves evil as good men love virtue. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc Oh, his midnight thoughts raced, as yours and mine have raced, when we have been struck by sorrow, or blackmail, or motiveless malice! The Freebooters of the Wilderness He had staved in the boat, and, as they supposed, afterwards swam to shore; but the crime seemed so singularly motiveless that they finally put it down as the work of a madman. The Queen's Cup It springs from a 'motiveless malignity,' or a disinterested delight in the pain of others; and Othello, Cassio and Desdemona are scarcely more than the material requisite for the full attainment of this delight. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth To have tampered with her neutrality would have been motiveless folly. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Coleridge has admirably described the first great soliloquy which opens to us the pit of hell within as “the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity.” A Study of Shakespeare It is humiliating to say this to you; but I must, for it explains my conduct, which save in this regard has been motiveless. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest She looked round almost motivelessly before she went below. Captivity Indeed, the murder of Alessandro appears to have been almost motiveless, considered from the point of view of practical politics. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The same, but of course with the difference Browning's variety creates, may be said of the story of the envious king, where envy crawls into hatred, hatred almost motiveless—the Instans Tyrannus. The Poetry Of Robert Browning For not the wildest nightmare dream would seem more mad and motiveless than such a horror as this. The Red Redmaynes To its existence is often to be traced the motiveless crimes of the young.’ Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time If such were the habitual enjoyments of this class of sportsmen, their motiveless massacres would admit of no manly justification. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Coleridge describes Iago's hatred of Othello as the hatred which a base nature instinctively feels for a noble one, and his assignment of motives for his acts as the mere "motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity." The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style The fabrication of the speech would have been an absolutely motiveless and foolish transaction; to which Gibson, a pronounced whig, must needs have been a party. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Unless we choose to consider ourselves the victims of an elaborate and motiveless fabrication, we are almost bound to believe that this has occurred. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories This has always seemed to me the only way of accounting for instances of utterly motiveless and abnormal wickedness and cruelty. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time False lights, dubious foreshortenings, shallow colourings, ill-studied forms, and motiveless agitation suited the taste that cared for gaudy brightness and sensational effects. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Life must be inevitably a burthen to us, a dreary, unvaried, motiveless existence; and death must be welcomed, as the most desirable blessing that can visit us. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author We have already seen that fear is diminished in proportion as we understand that our trials are not motiveless, and perhaps this is the point at which to consider briefly what the motives are. The Conquest of Fear An opportunity was still open to him of becoming the friend and ally of Rome; why should he adopt this motiveless attitude of hostility? A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate But such a thing as "motiveless malignity" is not in nature, Iago's villainy is too cruel, too steadfast to be human; perfect pitiless malignity is as impossible to man as perfect innate goodness. The Man Shakespeare But the vivider and the keener grew this new mental life of Elsmere's, the more constant became his sense of soreness as to that foolish and motiveless quarrel which divided him from the Squire. Robert Elsmere Without it the rest is motiveless and inexplicable. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts To me it seems basic to the getting rid of fear to know that our trials, of whatever nature, are not motiveless. The Conquest of Fear Thus, the whole scene, however curious in itself, seems motiveless and resultless. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship An idling-place of dilettanteism or of itinerant motiveless wealth, a territory parcelled out for papal sustenance, dynastic convenience, and the profit of an alien Government. Impressions of Theophrastus Such He was forcibly struck with the blind and comparatively motiveless pugnacity of the Squire's conduct. Robert Elsmere I could not, however, conceal from Eveena that I was about to leave her for an adventure which could not but seem to her foolhardy and motiveless. Across the Zodiac This has always seemed to me the only way of accounting for instances of utterly motiveless and abnormal wickedness and cruelty. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe The instinctive, motiveless fear being the most difficult to overcome, nothing could induce her to return to her investigations, neither threatening growls nor ferocious hisses, nor yet a poke or two in the ribs. Victory An Island Tale But it is persistent, incorrigible, irrational, motiveless, useless. Constance Dunlap She had effected her purpose, which was perfectly motiveless, by concealing combustibles in different parts of the house. Fires and Firemen: from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol XXXV No. 1, May 1855 The morbid craving for excitement which is at the bottom of so many motiveless and useless crimes, again and again has driven apparently sensible men and women to ruin and even to suicide. The Dream Doctor Pierston was almost angry with himself for his feelings of this night, so unreasonably, motivelessly strong were they towards the lost young playmate. The Well-Beloved It was the motiveless malignity of the deed which fastened it on Bourgonef; or rather, it was the absence of any known motive elsewhere which assured me that I had detected the motive in him. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English We have reached a pitch where, in my judgment, we are justified in believing that some motiveless malignity is at work. The Grey Room |
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