Sentence examples for compulsion with from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rodrigues approaches Sérgio's compulsion with cold, behaviorist curiosity.

Gottfried's "Twilight of the Wagners" seems preoccupied to the point of compulsion with the family's history of anti-Semitism.

The Board says government policy shows "a rather unprincipled mix of discretion and compulsion", with courts having no option but to impose the new criminal court charges.

Their crime has inspired plays, books and movies ("Rope," "Compulsion"), with Loeb, the dominant member of the pair, receiving the most fascinated focus.

Orpheus conveyed that compulsion with a stirring, heartfelt and multihued performance, with a waltz both fiery and elegant and an ethereal Élégie.

By introducing laws that compelled vaccination without any safety regulations to go along with them, the government did nothing to reassure those who regarded compulsion with dread or indignation.

To quote David Foster Wallace, "Top athletes fascinate us by appealing to our twin compulsions with competitive superiority and hard data".

Though he shared substance addictions with Martin and Janis Joplin and sexual compulsions with Cooke, Joplin and Sylvester, and though he had enough money once the Clash started raking it in, he seems to have achieved a fair portion of the ordinary blokedom toward which his inchoate but sincere and inquisitive radicalism impelled him.

In School and Society, Professor Grant Showerman also credited the college's freedoms and lack of compulsions with its demise.

The third factor, named contamination/cleaning dimension, accounted for 11% of the variance and was composed of contamination and religious obsessions, associated with cleaning compulsions, with loadings ranging from 0.63 to 0.84.

The first factor, which was named symmetry/ordering dimension, represented 35% of the total variance and included symmetry obsessions and ordering, repeating and checking compulsions, with loadings ranging from 0.61 to 0.83.