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De Flores, clear-headed and well-motived, is the most powerful and individual of the post-Shakespearean villains.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

It was not till I had quitted Syria, and when Dthemetri was no longer in my service, that this villainous, though well-motived trick, of his came to my knowledge. 

From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Kinglake, Alexander William

It is by well-motived characterization that drama passes from melodrama to story-play and so to tragedy; or, from the broadest farce or extravaganza through low comedy to high.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce