Sentence examples for compulsion to reckon from inspiring English sources

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The best is not necessarily to come, though all poets wait in meagre hope.This need, if not compulsion, to reckon or wrestle with what has gone before is one reason why poets return again and again to well-tried forms of verse: the sonnet, for example, or the ballad, the basic iambic pentameter line, all of which are constantly being invited to accommodate new inter preters.

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The approach has its critics, who perhaps feel that translation should be a purer and more modestly auxiliary activity, though this is to reckon without the compulsions under which poets operate.

He's one to reckon with".

Hussein is a man to reckon with.

In Mother Russia, words to reckon with.

She was a force to reckon with.

Nevertheless, you have to reckon with conflicts of interest when involving target users.

Kleptomania, recurrent compulsion to steal without regard to the value or use of the objects stolen.

Then she says she can't stop folding, folding being a metaphor for an unraveling, a reckoning, a compulsion to free herself, and once she's started it gathers momentum.

I don't think it's compulsion to multitask as much as it is a compulsion to belong".

Or will they see in our compulsion to store a penchant for procrastination and hoarding?

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