Sentence examples for a case of compulsion from inspiring English sources

A case of compulsion due to an irresistible desire seems clearly a freedom-and-responsibility-undermining condition (assuming that the person who suffers it is not responsible for acquiring it).

Fleischer's killers are ordinary men (or boys, in the case of "Compulsion"), physically undistinguished and almost faceless (literally so in the case of the haunting "Follow Me Quietly," in which a detective constructs a blank-faced dummy to take the place of the murderer, a phantom stalker known as "the Judge").

Is it a matter of compulsion, a moral failure, or merely a case of what Aristotle called akrasia, or "weakness of will"?

Suttee was sometimes committed voluntarily, but cases of compulsion, escape, and rescue are known.

In a case like this there should be an element of compulsion: if you receive blood then you, or a family member make a donation "repayment".

In this case, we felt he had a kind of compulsion to confess".

In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a sense of compulsion is associated with performing ritualistic thoughts or actions.

In Morning (1965), the grids have shrunk to create a sense of compulsion and claustrophobia.

I think there must be a kind of compulsion about it.

These poorly defined associational relationships coupled with a dearth of a catchment management and development outline plan have translated into a lack of compulsion of duty among institutions.

Designing a replacement that would be universal, but lack an element of compulsion would be extremely hard.