Sentence examples for compulsion to name from inspiring English sources

Then came Linnaeus, with his compulsion to name and categorize living things.

Especially in his recent series of smudgy black-and-white lithographs, the verbiage comes to seem obsessive: a compulsion to name, label, and caption which, in heightening the absurdity of words, strips them of their power.

Another is Goldberg's compulsion to name-drop his way through major political events: Ariel Sharon, Mohammed Atta's father, Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a founder of Hamas, among many others — all seem to have confided in him exclusively.

What's the compulsion to make a film about murder?

But does the compulsion to excel make anybody happy?

That compulsion to speak in the name of the divine is called by some scholars the "prophetical condition".

Seated in her screened-in porch, with a ginger tabby named Zipper perched on her lap, Gilbert concedes that the compulsion to garden took her unawares.

"Woodpecker" is about a woman named Mary Sweeny, who was from La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the early twentieth century and had a compulsion to break windows.

Agencies are also under no compulsion to publish details of all their clients – and there is a suspicion that the names of some clients are being withheld from public scrutiny.

They chanted his name and then they started chanting, 'Come on!' It was like there was a compulsion to encourage him to get up, wake up.

The syndrome, named for the Miranda-Caliban relationship in "The Tempest," has four distinct elements: "premature maturity," "survivor guilt," "compulsion to achieve" and "fear of contagion".