reason

(noun)

a rational motive for a belief or action

All clip examples

• about the reasons for this wave of murder... (Night of the Living Dead)
• The murders are taking place in villages, cities, rural homes and suburbs with no apparent pattern or reason for the slayings. (Night of the Living Dead)
• Do not venture outside, for any reason, until the nature of this crisis has been determined (Night of the Living Dead)
• Is there any reason why, from now on, it shouldn't be pink champagne? (Love Affair)
• There was no reason for keeping it any more. (Love Affair)
• there must have been a darn good reason. (Love Affair)
• For some unaccountable reason, I thought somebody would want to publish it. (The Last Time I Saw Paris)
• That's the only reason I'm listening to you. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• You'll find a reason to make it reasonable. (The Last Time I Saw Paris)
• But the reason for the fall was back here in February. (The Wasp Woman)
• Well, they must have a reason for their visits. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• The only reason I put up with you is because I'm married to you. I'm stuck. (Scarlet Street)
• The reason I picked the hotel, your hotel, it's really very... (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
• For the same reason you don't wear your badge. I like it incognito. (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
• Maybe she wanted to walk. There's no law that says she... That's not the reason she gave, wise guy. (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
• The reason she gave was that she'd got a job. (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
• You must've had some reason for coming all the way down here. (One-Eyed Jacks)
• But those are not reasons for to kill a man. (One-Eyed Jacks)
• Reasons? (One-Eyed Jacks)
• I got reasons. (One-Eyed Jacks)
• Could it be that you have your own reasons for wanting him to die? (One-Eyed Jacks)
• No. No reasons at all. (One-Eyed Jacks)
• I hear you might have personal reasons. (One-Eyed Jacks)
• Personal reasons? (One-Eyed Jacks)