Sentence examples for age compulsion from inspiring English sources

There was also some mad Ophelia about her, a fragile, self-destructive flower wilting -- but with a thorny talent for manipulation and a New Age compulsion for confession.

Maybe developing this early impulse to associate food with abstinence means that, in middle age, the compulsion to abstain from consuming anything valuable will be replaced by a desperation to hoard anything of worth inside your sad, starved, unloved body.

Finally, our results demonstrated that, among the wide variety of variables examined, the determinants that best delineated differences between compulsive buyers and non-compulsive buyers were gender, age, anxiety, depression, obsession-compulsion, problem solving, cognitive restructuring, problem avoidance, wishful thinking, and self-criticism.

"A generation of viewers is coming of age without feeling that habitual compulsion to watch," says Mr Rosenthal.

Darryl Zanuck arranged for his son to produce his first film, the murder mystery "Compulsion" (1959), at age 24.

As a result, owners feel no compulsion to replace their aging PCs.

Unlike many writers, James does not describe the process as agony but it certainly seems to be a compulsion, if anything only intensified by age.

At this early age, he was evidently gripped with a strong compulsion to punish the establishment whose lifestyle he was so eagerly embracing.

However, patients diagnosed with OCD widely vary according to symptom type (compulsions vs. obsessions), different kinds of obsessions and compulsions (e.g., hoarding vs. cleaning), severity, age of onset, comorbidities (e.g. tics, depression) and medication as an influencing factor [ 7].

In 2004 the government removed the legal compulsion to teach foreign languages past the age of 14.

"The First Bacilli of the disease of our age," Marlette calls the Clintons, "where narcissism meets obsessive compulsion".