Sentence examples for be a compulsion from inspiring English sources

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.

"I don't think of myself as a scribe, but there must be a compulsion that wants me to capture and reveal some truths, some essences.

The urge to hoard is shared with his friend, Withnail writer and director Bruce Robinson, who believes it to be a compulsion born of difficult childhoods.

Like with some dissidents in other nations, Mr. Jeyaretnam's single-minded pursuit of a moral vision seems to be a compulsion.

A competent user perhaps needs at least to "feel the pull" of certain claims, such as that tigers are striped, which she might ultimately nevertheless recognize to be mistaken (in Peacocke's 1992 phrase, they might feel a "primitive compulsion" in this regard even if it turned out to be a compulsion they need to learn to resist!).

Upon being criticized, there will be a compulsion to retreat and hide.

It's a compulsion.

It was a compulsion, an obsession.

"It's a compulsion," he said.

"But it was a compulsion".

It's a compulsion, in a way".