Abbie couldn't quite believe the twisted, tortuous motives.

Whatever the twisted motive, prosecutors are right to investigate the causes and recommend safeguards, though it may well be that no safeguard will work perfectly.

Boldt has the background in forensic medicine, and Matthews, the department psychologist, dopes out the killer's twisted motive.

Digging deeper, he uncovers more twisted motives for murder in the town's ancient feuds between cattle ranchers and oilmen, the land-grabbers and the land-drillers.

It was the scheming witch who poisoned my brother's mind against me--who lured him into a black conspiracy to fulfill, her own twisted motives.

Dallben's final condemnation of the treacherous king summarizes well his twisted motives:

"He thinks everyone must be as twisted as himself, wi' a dozen different motives; one for every occasion."

Whatever twisted motives Mr. Muhammad may have had, there is no reason to believe that he was using the sniper attacks for political ends.

Instead, from some great and twisted motive, it had given him this strange trajectory into the mouth of a huge engine of destruction.

When Paris claims he loves Helen above thought, he is providing piercing insight into the twisted motives behind the adultery that has infected Troy.