He had no gift, but he had a complex motive.

If I wander into that swamp of complex motives, I'll never find my way out alive.

It can't get behind the headlines if it refuses to deal with complex motives.

As the film moves further away from realism, it reaches deeper into the characters' emotions and complex motives.

He's obviously intelligent enough to have complex motives.

Some parents say they have complex motives for supporting a multiracial category.

"There too, we were looking for too complex a motive," Commander Stane said.

He emerges, in that context, as a man of motives and actions more complex than McCall's simplistic although basically accurate account.

But don't look for complex motives.

She contends that serial killers are so lacking in emotional development that they have no capacity for complex emotional motives.