Sentence examples for as a compulsion from inspiring English sources

Instead, he characterized the relationship as a compulsion.

Pickles were seen — by a nation on its way to Prohibition — as a compulsion for those too young to drink alcohol.

To go back to that Paris Review quote about boredom, you might even see a moral mission in the writing of it, as well as a compulsion.

Dunham describes her need to share as a compulsion: "I have to tell my stories in order to stay sane," she writes.

"Mania" means here what it often means colloquially — the head's name for the heart's excesses — but it is striking nonetheless: already, Lowell saw writing both as a way to understand his compulsions and as a compulsion in its own right, a roundabout leading out of trouble and immediately back in.

Depending on the way school leaders communicate and implement this directive from the MOE, teachers may even perceive this as a compulsion as opposed to the ideal of self-directed professional learning.

Vomiting quickly became as much a compulsion as eating was.

Hunger as both a compulsion and as a thing to be acquired, rather than fed.

I don't think it's compulsion to multitask as much as it is a compulsion to belong".

The Rubin did a smart job with such a disparate pairing Mr Moody, an author who has been described as having "a compulsion to overwrite", was emotional, cutting and articulate.

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