Sentence examples for compulsion to confess from inspiring English sources
In addition, he said, "we have a compulsion to confess our miscalculations and misdeeds.
Hedwig's adolescent compulsion to confess her brooding anger and emotional wounds over piano chords are rooted in British music hall, the cousin of the American musical comedy.
In this case, we felt he had a kind of compulsion to confess".
On the other hand, having recently extricated myself from an extramarital affair because of the moral shame I inflicted upon myself, I can sympathize completely with the former general's compulsion to confess his "bad" behavior, and in such a public way, as I am about to do.
As the psychoanalyst Theodore Reik noted in "The Compulsion to Confess," confession is often not an end in itself, but rather the means of an appeal to parents or authority figures for absolution and affection.
He had a compulsion, which seemed to him to be mysterious, to confess and describe everything that claimed his concentration.
I have nothing to confess.
Machiavelli had nothing to confess.
He still refused to confess.
