Sentence examples for certain compulsions from inspiring English sources

This event, Pinsky writes in his memoir, "Cracked," triggered a lifelong anxiety he tried to manage with certain compulsions.

With his soulful voice and haunted intelligence, Mr. Irons beautifully conveys the redemptive power of certain compulsions without overlooking what can be ruinous in them.

Once you have outlined certain compulsions, create a daily plan to actively expose yourself to a bit of uncertainty each and every day.

But Roe also confesses to a certain compulsion when it comes to not missing any concert, play or performance art piece she can possibly get to.

Apparently, it is driven by certain sexual compulsions".

"Convivial tools rule out certain levels of power, compulsion, and programming, which are precisely those features that now tend to make all governments look more or less alike," Illich wrote.

And while Rendell allows certain eccentrics to overcome their antisocial compulsions, she trusts that others will always find a home on the Portobello Road.

Obsessions and compulsions often revolve around certain themes and situations.

But we still felt the same pressure to fit in and measure up; the same compulsion to look a certain way, dress a certain way and act a certain way that I see my own eighth grade daughter and her friends struggling with now.

The news media's compulsion to swarm all over certain news events – shootings, bombingss, personal scandals, leaks – poses a genuine risk to the media itself.

In obsessive-compulsive disorder, the individual experiences obsessions with or without compulsions (a sense of having to carry out certain ritualized and senseless actions against their wishes).