Sentence examples for compulsions and from inspiring English sources
It's Elliot who has violent compulsions and takes great risks.
She is very much her own kitty cat, with her own compulsions and desires.
The two regard each other warily, furiously, like characters in a Faulkner novel trapped in each other's compulsions and needs.
The show's first series introduced us to Spector's compartmentalised world of fetishes and compulsions, and his violent pathology.
The problem is politics and its compulsions, and who are we to talk about India politics, look at U.S. politics.
And all the time, McDonagh's disorders lead him into increasingly sinister compulsions and hallucinations, and the rising floodtide of addiction and corruption threatens to engulf him utterly.
As a lay analyst, he believed that "jokes are essentially an unveiling of the joke-teller's own neuroses and compulsions, and his guilts about these".
Lots of us put on a blithe and blasé front to hide our inner compulsions, and for a good reason: not because they're embarrassing, but because they're dull.
I didn't understand that the only way to treat pure O is to stop acting out compulsions and break the vicious cycle.
About the compulsions and convictions of her subjects Jamison is compassionate without being partial: "Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges".
The lyrics find cosmic repercussions in a lovers' breakup; loneliness turns to contemplation of grim human compulsions and the end of the universe.
