Sentence examples for capable of compelling from inspiring English sources

Lady Marchmain is represented as a blazing-eyed fanatic, capable of compelling a male guest to attend a Catholic service (at which, laughably, she herself officiates).

It will now be our master, capable of compelling us to act against our will.

She is still capable of compelling work, though one never can tell what to expect.

Yet Mr. Rooney proved capable of compelling portraits of cruelty and poignancy.

Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of compelling visitors in secular time.

Though progressive pressure can produce an occasional decent appointment, it is not capable of compelling Obama to grow a spine.

testify how flattering a prospect we have of future tranquillity, if we do not frame in time a confederacy capable of deciding the differences and compelling the obedience of the respective members.

Women's situation is thus marked by a basic tension between transcendence and immanence; as self-conscious human beings, they are capable of transcendence, but they are compelled into immanence by cultural and social conditions that deny them that transcendence (see Beauvoir, chapter 21).

Without Riker, Picard is just as capable and just as compelling.

Of necessity, all of the teams were compelled to imagine some ideal cultural program capable of lifting the project above the mundane.

Among them: The Word is hyper-literal, works within the boundaries of language, and can't compel anyone to do anything they're not capable of doing.