Sentence examples for compulsion to explain from inspiring English sources
He is one of the greatest living mathematicians, with a sly sense of humour, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and a compulsion to explain everything about the world to everyone in it.
"Family members — mothers, fathers — whose children may have been killed ten, twenty, fifty years ago show up to these events... and feel this compulsion to explain that what's going on is wrong and that justice has not been served," Berman said.
Hindsight in the wake of a 60percentt Nasdaq correction is easy, of course, and there has already been much finger-pointing amid the popped-com compulsion to explain a market bubble that, however briefly, valued Amazon over Barnes & Noble, eToys over Toys RR" Us and Palm Computing over its venerable parent, 3Com.
Whether we are talking about killer or a CEO who was managing an enterprise when conditions turned sour, the compulsion to explain and to differentiate wickedness from misfortune is intense and unrelenting.
"It's what I feel compelled to do," she said in an interview, explaining that the compulsion is hard to explain.
It emphasizes the relevance of the (supposed) confusion between causation and compulsion in order to explain the more fundamental confusion about the nature of liberty (i.e. why philosophers tend to confuse liberty of spontaneity with liberty of indifference).
"It's little by little," he said, stumbling to explain his compulsion.
Mr. Lindsey's productivity was a source of as much admiration as curiosity in the music press, and he was often asked to explain his compulsion to create so much music so quickly.
Lavery does little to explain Ralph's compulsion, except to have him reveal, during one of his unbearably intense monologues, that his father beat him when he was a child.
Di Matteo, so cool in the pressure cooker, so honest in the locker room, still found the words to explain soccer's compulsion: "Football and life," he said while players in red and blue lay elated or destroyed around him, "is sometimes unpredictable and crazy.
Compulsions are easy to come by and hard to explain.
