Sentence examples for compelled to understand from inspiring English sources

Both need to be compelled to understand that "they're going down a blind alley with violence that weakens their legitimate claims".

In recent months, the candidate has tried to distance himself from Mr. Wright and his often radical views, even as he felt compelled to understand and explain his former pastor to a larger, predominantly white political world.

She qualified as a librarian in Copenhagen, and then in 1957 went to Glasgow University to study history, compelled to understand how individuals and families shape, and are shaped by, historical events.

But "not feeling" has a cost of its own: not to be emotionally and intellectually compelled to understand and avoid the horror of war also seems horrific in its own way.

"I felt compelled to understand what had driven those men... and what drove others like them".

As an avid marathon runner myself and neuroscientist, I am compelled to understand how motivational fire is ignited and critically, which elements sustain it.

However, as a physician and son, he felt compelled to fully understand his mother's illness.

The child of Jewish Iranian immigrants, he felt compelled to try to understand why the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks occurred, so he created his Web site, www.newsbyteens.com, "so everybody learns more," he said.

It confirms Harrelson's position as one of the best, most ambitious, least self-regarding actors at work today, and by the end he's compelled us to understand Brown and accord him a grudging respect.

That landscape is a good deal clearer in "La Ceremonie," but as monstrous as the lethally complicit characters played by Ms. Huppert and Ms. Bonnaire are, Mr. Chabrol compels us to understand them -- his movie plays like "Badlands" by the sea.

In trying to explain the title poem, he wrote, "all our brain-cudgeling could not compel us to understand it line by line or the sum total".