The story of "12 Years a Slave" is fundamentally one of pain and terror, and McQueen — bravely, unshrinkingly, and with no apparent pleasure — compels himself to represent it.
In other words, the flocks plunge him deeply into himself while seeming marvellously other than himself, compelling him to ask questions about how language can contain a sight so amazing, and also to wonder how the birds articulate elements in his deep un- or sub-conscious.
For some reason, VN also felt compelled to write himself, or as himself: "I would be glad to talk to you but I abhor telephone conversations, especially long distance.
Having arrived at a manner of grasping the reconciliation of the self and the world in history that was common to Christianity and Judaism, Rosenzweig no longer saw himself compelled to convert, and instead committed himself to a return to the Judaism that was his by birth.
They also deliver a version of how our man sees himself: a victim caught in an unyielding trap, and a mighty revenger compelled to fling himself against badness.
So Martin Wolf finds himself compelled to defend Ben Bernanke, not against charges that he has failed to exhibit the "Rooseveltian resolve" he himself once demanded of the Bank of Japan, but against hedge fund types who accuse him of somehow perverting financial markets.
PAC too found himself compelled after that first visit, and he began going back sporadically.
Yet as his "law" became famous he found himself compelled to update it.
A highly sensitive man, Mauriac felt compelled to justify himself before his critics.
If interested, get in touch with me .Mr Han felt compelled to defend himself.
