Sentence examples for compulsion to do from inspiring English sources
I feel little compulsion to do this.
She sees an egg and she has a compulsion to do that.
He had a horror of "letting people down" — and a compulsion to do just that.
"I have this strange compulsion to do whatever thing seems most frightening to me.
In this case, I felt the compulsion to do something with it".
But this being Radio 4 there was also a compulsion to do what shampoo adverts call "the science bit".
Freud thought this compulsion had to do with Dostoevsky's guilt at having witnessed the killing of his father (a detail modern biographers doubt, anyway).
As a child, Thomas' first compulsions were to do with cleanliness: one hand to open doors, another for eating.
Researchers revised their views, recognizing that the essence of addiction is the craving and compulsion to keep doing it no matter what— even if you don't get physical symptoms when you try to stop. .
Mr. Gamblin plays him as a man whose essential decency is a compulsion; he has to do what's right.
Perhaps there is some freedom in making art without any sense of its prospects to begin with, for as soon as people start liking it, there is a compulsion to keep doing the same thing to survive.
