Sentence examples for compulsion to turn from inspiring English sources

So what led Compulsion to turn this interest into a game?

Even as his health declined, through the nineteen-fifties, he showed a willingness, indeed a compulsion, to turn his talents to anything.

But the poetic quality of the prose brings hope and an almost unshakable compulsion to turn back to the opening lines: "The end of my world began with a story.

One is to make a document that is beautifully constructed on a sense and word level, but I'm also interested in the compulsion to turn a page, to see what happens next.

There may be nothing more mysterious in human nature than the compulsion to turn our ideals, to turn our very devotion, towards violent and murderous ends.

But a mystery remains at the core of his story: his compulsion to remember and record and to turn his life into art.

While he jokes about his compulsion to film, he actually turns the camera off with some frequency — at his father's funeral, during his son's birth (with the audio on), when his friend Charleen can't throw away her husband's ashes.

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.

Their compulsion to escape the restraints of the workplace before they turn 65, for example, reflects their desire to run their own show.

That compulsion will turn into a trail of blood, consuming the whole kingdom.

While artists once turned to traditional narcotics for romantic inspiration, the compulsion to check that phone one more time is hardly going to give anyone visions of caverns measureless to man, as Coleridge put it.