Sentence examples for compelled to believe from inspiring English sources

"I never felt particularly compelled to believe those pictures".

However, from a consumer perspective I am compelled to believe that a few events changed the public perception in trust in the system.

In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco goes beyond the usual stories of technological breakthrough and economic meltdown to explore the myths constructed around the new digital technology and why we feel compelled to believe in them.

As the exhibition text notes, their goal was to address "the distortions created by official narratives the stories about ourselves and our histories that we are encouraged or compelled to believe by pervasive dominant forces.

"I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently," Meriwether Lewis wrote as he and William Clark came upon the Rocky Mountains, in 1805.

In the face of such alienation, Plante's characters are compelled to believe in the alphabet's common origin, the font of an ancient civilization shared by Christian, secularist, Jew and Muslim.

I am no friend of this woman, though I don't (I felt compelled to add) believe violence solves anything.

The storm, the recovery of the body, the burning on the beach that was all like a pageant that she had been compelled to watch and to believe in.

Rather, he writes as someone who has had certain experiences that compelled him to believe, and who is trying to make sense of both what he believes and what, often, deters him from believing.

Because his idée fixe compelled him to believe that the lackeys of American imperialism were inventing stories of Serb atrocities to justify the expansion of western power, he sided with the apologists for as long as he could.

The horse puppets' breath, movement and gaze compelled me to believe, on some deeply embedded, irrational wavelength, that this creature, born of plywood, foam rubber and nylon, was constructed of the same flesh as I.