Sentence examples for compulsion to repeat from inspiring English sources
We suffer from a compulsion to repeat our disasters.
Institutional amnesia locks the United Nations system into a fatal compulsion to repeat.
Echolalia (a compulsion to repeat words heard) and palilalia (spontaneous repetition of one's own words) are two distinctive symptoms of Tourette syndrome.
When I visited three years ago, I thought that its problem was a compulsion to repeat the mistakes of American cities.
It can be found in the "Artificial Intelligence" of Michele Bachmann and her pull-the-string-in-the-middle-of-my-back compulsion to repeat the same red-meat responses no matter the question.
Reflecting on the future of the city in this irrevocably changed environment, it is urgent to remember that business-as-usual in New York is more than the compulsion to repeat patterns of the past: our greatest talent is creating the new.
Those in charge now ― James Mattis, H.R. McMaster, and John Kelly ― are all veterans of the Afghan or Iraq wars and consequently subject to what Freud labeled the "repetition compulsion": "the blind impulse to repeat earlier experiences and situations," often in the expectation that things will turn out differently.
To find relief from the anxiety the compulsions bring, they feel the need to repeat certain rituals -- like washing their hands or locking doors multiple times -- which are known as compulsions.
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.
Brash cuts were a trademark of Aronofsky's early work: in "Requiem for a Dream," he established his characters' compulsion to get high by repeating a rapid montage of teeth, cells, flame, bubbles, a syringe, a dilating eye, fumes, surging blood, and then a sigh of pleasure.
