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Example sentences for "motivation"

Lexicographically close words:
motiv; motivate; motivated; motivates; motivating; motivations; motive; motived; motiveless; motives
  1. Fasters also lose their motivation once the complaint has vanished.

  2. Some don't have the motivation to give themselves a little discomfort but are comfortable with someone else doing it to them.

  3. Few healthy people, even those with a deep interest in the process, can find enough personal motivation to overcome the extreme boredom of water fasting for longer than that.

  4. Goodham did a beautiful job on that; he seemed able, at a glance, to divine exactly what each witness's motivation was, and able to make him or her betray that motivation in its least admirable terms.

  5. In the use of his sources three tendencies are especially noticeable: the motivation of borrowed incidents; the adjusting of action on a moral basis: the reworking of his own favorite themes and incidents.

  6. Little use, however, is made of it in the motivation of action.

  7. The intellectual perception and the mechanism of human motivation remain opposed.

  8. But Medart had motivation of his own, and his pain and weakness were masked by the medications he'd taken.

  9. It was impossible to believe that one who risked himself as James was could do so without some overwhelming motivation beyond the self-advancement of Shaperkin!

  10. The law of motivation is, like all causality, merely the form of the phenomenon.

  11. In the motivation of the whole procedure these unifications, as said above, do not appear, but the whole transaction shapes itself under the forms which these explicit or implicit agreements furnish.

  12. The law of motivation only extends to the particular actions, not to willing as a whole and in general.

  13. Part of his motivation had been provided by the oil-beetle larvae.

  14. Their rise and motivation in both these forms is unconscious.

  15. A different perspective is necessary, one that addresses motivation and the means for pursuing individual self-constitution as something other than the beneficiary of an inefficient system.

  16. Mass-media politics is already a thing of the past-not because television is overridden by the Internet, but because of the need to create a framework for individual motivation for political action.

  17. Reminiscences of the motivation of words (especially onomatopoeic qualities, i.

  18. Accordingly, the citizen has no motivation for commitment and no need to express it through voting.

  19. Their motivation lay in the practical experience; their unfolding in connected interactions acquired an aesthetic quality from the underlying design.

  20. In addition we must bear in mind that the sense of guilt also contains something unknown and unconscious, namely the motivation for the rejection.

  21. The mutual inhibition of these two contending forces creates a need for discharge and for lessening the existing tension, in which we may recognize the motivation for the compulsive acts.

  22. The distrust which certainly seems to contribute to the motivation of the royal taboo, would be another direct manifestation of the same unconscious hostility.

  23. A strain of mistrust is mingled with the motivation of the taboo rules for the king.

  24. Under the dominance of an animistic system it is absolutely essential that each rule and activity should receive a systematic motivation which we to-day call 'superstitious'.

  25. In the lack of motivation of the commandments, 2.

  26. According to our assumption they must be incapable of telling us anything about it since this motivation is 'unconscious' to them.

  27. The cannibalism of primitive races derives its more sublime motivation in a similar manner.

  28. This was then the systematic motivation of the prohibition, but we may be sure that the patient would have brought home the prohibition relating to the razors even if she had not discovered this warehouse in the neighbourhood.

  29. On other occasions the thought is directly expressed without magic motivation that the conjugal infidelity of the wife thwarts the absent husband's efforts.

  30. First of all it must be said that it is useless to question savages as to the real motivation of their prohibitions or as to the genesis of taboo.

  31. The playwright who works for only momentary success may doubtless depend upon the onward rush of events, in a play of strong emotion, to blind his audience to lack of motivation in his characters.

  32. Where, perhaps, authors fail with their public more than anywhere else is in motivation of the conduct of their characters.

  33. On the stage, motivation and dialogue must be such as to make so swift a change entirely convincing even though it occur merely in the time of the acting.

  34. Their motivation is totally inadequate; that is, their conduct seems not to grow out of their characters.

  35. The second method of meeting the time difficulty, finding motivation of some marked change in character or circumstances which permits it to be as swift as it is on the stage, is best treated in the next chapter.

  36. By means of better characterization a motivation fundamentally more plausible is provided.

  37. How may we know whether our motivation is good or not?

  38. Therefore they accepted insufficient motivation and artificiality in handling the scenes.

  39. Motivation should not, however, be allowed to obtrude itself, but should be subordinated to the emotional purpose of the scene.

  40. Another instance of this frank motivation among the Elizabethans may be found in the soliloquy from The Duchess of Malfi: Cardinal.

  41. The Army, he concluded, should learn from its wartime experience the deleterious effect of segregation on motivation and ultimately on performance.

  42. The individual soldier's own motivation determined his competence, the team concluded.

  43. The Gellerman motivation and productivity film series) Based on the book Motivation and productivity, by Saul W.

  44. The Motivation to work film series) A Quest production.

  45. The Gellerman motivation and productivity film series) A Quest production.

  46. The Gellerman motivation and productivity series) Based on the book Motivation and productivity, by Saul W.

  47. His insight into the motivation of his trip is obstructed in service of the delusion; his relation to science, which ought, in such a place, to stir all his interest, is upset.

  48. Some force which we do not recognize, however, next prevents the plan of the delusion from becoming conscious, so that only insufficient pretexts, which can be but partially revived, remain as a conscious motivation for the trip.

  49. So although they share the characteristics of a romance of adventure, with stories of magic and of robbers forming principal episodes, the motivation and the aim of the two romances are utterly different.

  50. At the same time the poverty of ethical insight and true dramatic motivation is dissimulated under profuse lyrical outpourings and purple patches of local color.

  51. Either there is motivation which the narrator knows but considers it unnecessary to discuss; or the motivation is as lacking as in a dream.

  52. She on her part finds bones which she recognizes as her relatives'--a characteristic Mohave motivation and inconsistency--and bets her body against her freedom in a game to be played with one of the same bones.

  53. The principle of sufficient reason, of which the law of motivation is also a form, extends only to the latter, not to the former.

  54. While an idea of perception is in every case the motive which determines the brute, the man strives to exclude this kind of motivation altogether, and to determine himself entirely by abstract ideas.

  55. It is part of a system of social motivation and control.

  56. They are parts of a social system of motivation and control.

  57. I shall undertake to construe credit as a part of the social system of motivation and control, and to differentiate it from other parts of that system by an analysis of its functions.

  58. The precious metals had, in these Eastern empires, a high value per unit, since so large a portion of the social energy of motivation attached itself to them.

  59. Credit phenomena are merely part and parcel of the general system of economic motivation and control.

  60. The motivation of economic life is a psychological matter.

  61. It is not sufficient to provide the subject with his physiological requirements for survival, but he must be given the psychological motivation for using these provisions.

  62. There was no significant change in the physiological state or performance of the animals as measured during a series of tasks of graded motivation and difficulty.

  63. Despite his shock, he discussed the practical problems at hand--problems of special urgency because we did not at that time have any information as to the motivation of the assassination or its possible implications.

  64. In view of your deep study of the case, have you reached any views of your own or are there any views of the Bureau, as to Oswald's motivation in the act that he committed?

  65. The story was rejected by other members who, while applauding the author's motivation of character, his theme, and his general treatment, yet felt a lack of emotion and a faltering at the dramatic climax.

  66. That purpose must be sought in spiritual dimensions of life and motivation that transcend a constantly changing economic landscape and an artificially imposed division of human societies into “developed” and “developing”.

  67. To conclude, however, that the answer lies in discouraging the investigation of spiritual reality and ignoring the deepest roots of human motivation is a self-evident delusion.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motivation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    activity; actuation; animation; aptitude; brightness; catalyst; cleverness; direction; dynamics; facility; goad; going; impetus; impressionability; impulse; incentive; incitement; influence; intelligence; kinetics; mobilization; motivation; motive; move; movement; moving; plasticity; pliability; prompting; propellant; provocation; provocative; purpose; quickness; readiness; restlessness; running; seed; shot; spirit; spur; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus; stir; susceptibility; unrest; velocity; willingness