The phrase "compulsive quest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an intense, often uncontrollable pursuit or search for something.
Example: "His compulsive quest for perfection often left him feeling exhausted and unfulfilled."
Alternatives: "obsessive pursuit" or "relentless search."
In other words, the next time your children nag you to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar at bedtime, think of it as the tale of one creature's obsessive-compulsive quest to fill a hole that can't be filled, or as a prose poem about demonic possession – just be sure to stick to the words on the page.
There's something Shakespearean about Don's tour-de-regret, as if he is a ghost passing over the lives of people that he never bothered to deeply know because he was too busy bedding down the latest flame in a compulsive, sex-addicted quest to quell the sadness of his bred-in-bordello childhood.
Adolescence is an age of compulsive posing that coincides with a quest for authenticity, and Malraux never outgrew either.
Yet despite this, Dragon Quest VII is strangely compulsive; its charming characters, wonderful designs, and engaging story draw you into its world.
I have a special fondness for the director Richard Brooks's last film, "Fever Pitch," from 1985, in which Ryan O'Neal plays a sports reporter in quest of a story about compulsive gamblers who quickly becomes one himself.
But Vincent soon breaks out, and joined by an acerbic anorexic (Karoline Herfurth) and a neurotically fastidious obsessive-compulsive (Johannes Allmayer), he embarks on a quest to fulfill his mother's final wish that her ashes be scattered over the Italian sea.
As a compulsive pursuer of youth, an always unattainable and therefore delusional quest, I have chased all manner of facial-rejuvenating and appearance-enhancing agents, from a cornucopia of creams to chemical peels to wrinkle-erasing and skin-plumping injections to aesthetic laser treatments and even a surgical procedure or two.
The movie becomes a lot less interesting when it rolls around to the inevitable quest for a steady relationship with a girl (Ms. Goodman) whose feelings were trampled in Dex's compulsive fox-hunting.
The movie becomes a lot less interesting when it rolls around to the inevitable quest for a steady relationship with a woman (Ms. Goodman) whose feelings were trampled in Dex's compulsive fox hunting.
