At the point of a gun Tsotsi compels a widow, herself raising a child in the shantytown, to breast-feed the baby, and she, beautifully played by Terry Pheto, points the way to common decency.
I'm sure Tom Harper would have liked to film that, too, but Davies had sent the subplot in another direction: while Hélène may very well be in love mainly with herself, she is also compelled to fling herself beneath the sinister Dolokhov, and her dumb brother, and possibly any Welsh-born scriptwriter attached to the BBC who might be passing through Russia at the time.
Wollstonecraft's anger and frustration over the secondary status afforded women compels her to define herself in antithesis to conventional images of femininity.
If I can laugh at that, she'll be compelled to ask herself, how grief-smitten can I really be?
Although you would never get her to admit as much, Miuccia Prada is another designer who seems to find herself compelled by changes in masculine ideals.
The waitress herself, compelled to serve Humphrys, might like to reply that the OED cites intransitive uses of enjoy from 1380 on.
Gulumbu Yunupingu came to painting relatively late, one day finding herself compelled to retell her family's traditional stories of the Milky Way.
Look! …" Suddenly she pointed to an American girl going into the water: "That young lady may be a stenographer and yet be compelled to warp herself, dressing and acting as if she had all the money in the world".
Ms. Hocking's legions of fans were so shocked by the news earlier this week that she was shopping her books to traditional publishers that she felt compelled to explain herself on her blog.
Like Gumby, Rhodes-Pitts is a transplant to Harlem (in her case, from Texas, via Harvard), and like him she found herself compelled to document her own and others' experiences there.
