| 单词 | rational motive |
| 例句 | The ‘sane’ murderer is thought of as acting upon rational motives that can be understood, though condemned, and the ‘insane’ one as being driven by irrational senseless motives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z During early rehearsals she vainly tried to find rational motives for her ruthlessness. ‘I, Claudius’ Returns in a 35th-Anniversary DVD Set 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z There are rational motives to oppose vegan diets on health grounds. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Whipple does not seem to ask himself at any junction whether these senators might have any rational motive beyond self-service. Review | A not-too-deep look at Biden’s presidency so far 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “It is surprising to me that there is not a rational motive for the killing of a 13-year-old person,” the judge said. D.C. judge orders 4 charged in fatal shooting of 13-year-old to remain in jail until trial 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z I began by asking him whether an overestimation of rational motives in the electorate was a universal condition or one particularly pertinent to our times? Francis Fukuyama: ‘Trump instinctively picks racial themes to drive people on the left crazy’ 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z There can be no rational motive for mass murder, which means that asking why Stephen Paddock turned the Las Vegas Strip into a killing zone is ultimately a futile exercise. Opinion | The carnage will continue 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Friendly relations between the state and Guzmán would have a rational motive. Joachín 'El Chapo' Guzmán: the truth about the jailbreak of the millennium 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But the labour of recasting the orthography of the memorial must have been considerable; while it is difficult to imagine a rational motive to account for such labour being incurred. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' 2012-02-14T03:00:27.797Z I refer to those mechanical instincts which are guided by no motive or knowledge, and which yet have the appearance of performing their work from abstract rational motives. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.—Tuckerman. Pearls of Thought We shall see whether the youth whom we need are at our command—the youth, who irresistibly draw on the old, carry them forward on strong arms, and transform rational motives into enthusiasm. The Jewish State Their doctrine that man is predisposed to love evil for evil’s sake, removes conduct from the sphere of rational motive, as evinced in the ordinary course of human experience. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Just as the professional spirit in any other occupation leads to an exhibition of exaggerated importance, the despotic doctrine of militarism assumes superiority over rational motives and deliberations. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The fatalist, and those who conceive every human volition and action to be the effect of divine agency, have no rational motive, to do, or suffer for religion. Sermons on Various Important Subjects It must appeal to more rational motives if it expects to have any degree of influence over its most intelligent and energetic members. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Man's motives are rational motives; the ends he seeks are ends conceived and even constituted by his intelligence, and not purposes blindly followed as by instinct and impulse. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Or a blind aboriginal impulse, wholly without rational motive, led him one day to put on his hat, and go out with his article in an envelope and put it in a pillar-box. The New Jerusalem But it would be absurd to suppose that an intelligent Roman of our date would have offered the original and ancient motives for this conduct as rational motives still actuating himself. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul All becomes dark and obscure to me, and I have no longer a rational motive for hope. Delsarte System of Oratory This distinction, which seems to grant the larger, while it denies the smaller degree of authority, was founded on a very rational motive. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 A revolution may finally become a belief, but it often commences under the action of perfectly rational motives: the suppression of crying abuses, of a detested despotic government, or an unpopular sovereign, &c. The Psychology of Revolution How few act from purely patriotic and rational motives! Tales and Novels — Volume 04 There is a rational motive for his conduct—one which many of us have experienced, and which has, perhaps, prompted us to act in a similar manner, if not to the same extent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Her customary sympathy with him, her subtle womanly observation of his character, her intimate knowledge of his merits and his defects, failed to find the rational motive which might have explained his conduct. Blind Love The raising up of the human being without respect of persons is the constant and only rational motive of the democratic policy. Equality |
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