Sentence examples for bordering on compulsion from inspiring English sources

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It's also a reliable display of resourcefulness bordering on compulsion.

Can you talk about what place means to you? FREDERICK REIKEN: I've always had a strong geographical sense, bordering on compulsion, actually.

Swimming was also the current that carried me into journalism, my years of hanging around athletes infusing me with a desire — bordering on compulsion — to tell their stories.

IF there is a single quality that separates those in their late teens and early 20's from previous generations of young people, it is a willingness bordering on compulsion to broadcast the details of their private lives to the general public.

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Growing up, her drive to build an identity separate from her small-town roots at times bordered on compulsion.

And, following their advice, in two weeks of obsession-bordering-on-compulsion, my inbox was down to zero.

Schwartz has a wildly prolix, rattling style, and her passion for wordplay borders on compulsion.

Is it wrong to romanticize a level of passion that borders on compulsion, Matthew Barney's, for instance?

The man's determination to tweak and tune borders on compulsion: new codes are announced, it seems, even before previously announced new codes have come into effect.

That speed of access and a clubby feeling give Webzines an edge with readers whose need to track down the latest cult jean or downtown boîte borders on compulsion.

This was before I'd read Isak Dinesen and Mikhail Bulgakov, before Ernest Hemingway and T. Coraghessan Boyle, before I'd read something and really felt it, when writing was still just a compulsion, and my teen-age brain was only bordering on sentience.

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