direct intent

'Maureen, a pinch on the bottom is an expression of direct intent.

Direct intent: a person has direct intent when they intend a particular consequence of their act.

There may not be a direct intent to mislead, and often there is no way of knowing, Mr. Lerach concedes.

"Table talk" may also refer to a similar informal conversation, more deliberately engaged in by the famous person, with the direct intent of publication (somewhat analogous to granting an interview).

His shaved head glistening, sweat beading off his chin, the French midfielder Zinédine Zidane set up for a penalty kick in the World Cup semifinals with revived and direct intent.

The psychological dimension of architecture and propaganda means that even when a group or government has no direct intent to use architecture for propaganda purposes, the nature of architecture proceeding as it does from the human mind will express something about the designer and his or her culture.

This intention is proved not only when the defendant's motive or purpose is to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (direct intent), but when death or grievous bodily harm is a virtually certain consequence of the defendant's act (indirect or 'oblique' intent).

He would remember, he would always remember, that on the night when she herself was burning with directed intent like a beam of sunlight focused by glass onto one spot, the queen of the Antae had stopped beneath his mosaics upon a dome and looked up at them by lamplight and moonlight.