David Grann

One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.

American Journalist

Omar Bongo

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Gabonese Statesman

Josh Radnor

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

American Director

Jeff Sessions

All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.

American Politician

Daniel Lubetzky

Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.

Mexican Businessman

Lucian Freud

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

British Artist

John Lee Hancock

I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think sometimes people have what I'll call an ulterior motive with a story.

American Writer

Sally Field

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

American Actress

Wyatt Cenac

I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any weakness to a cat, the cat is gonna take over.

American Comedian

Giancarlo Esposito

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.

American Actor

Use 'ulterior' to suggest someone is being sneaky or not fully honest.

Sneaky Implication

Implies the speaker feels doubt or suspicion about real motives.

Doubt and Suspicion

Look for clues in the context that indicate someone's behavior doesn't match their true goals.

Reading Context

Refers to what's beyond the immediate situation, often in a process or timeline.

Beyond Immediate

Highlights possible future outcomes or developments.

Future Implications

Mostly found in formal contexts, like legal documents or planned strategies.

Legal and Formal

 and how late-stage Alzheimer's patients, whose dementia was so far progressed that they could no longer recognize their family, could still pick out a tune by Chopin at the piano that they had learned when they were children. But I had an ulterior motive of visiting Gottfried Schlaug, and it was that I was at a crossroads in my life,

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 evidence that those buildings were explosively demolished the truthers believe there may be an ulterior reason for the demolition experts skepticism the firms that do control demolition high-rises work for the most wealthy people and our federal

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 and what role might he play in the course of justice? These questions are complicated by a tangled web of characters, forcing Hamlet to negotiate friends, family, court counselors, and love interests– many of whom possess ulterior motives.

Ulterior