In other words, we're not using the term to describe compulsions like smoking or nail biting.
His doctors, who succeeded in treating him with drugs, describe his compulsion as a manifestation of body dysmorphic disorder, which is sometimes thought of as an "obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder".
Luciano Berio, the Italian composer, has a postmodern phrase to describe the compulsion artists often have, and composers especially, to revisit the past, to reinterpret other works and eras in their own voice.
As we sit in a Rome cafe, he describes his compulsion to get as near as possible to a phenomenon that conditions the lives of millions of people, like him, born in or around Naples.
West begins the song by expounding his conflicted feelings regarding wealth and desire, describing a compulsion to spend that overwhelms any and all other objectives in life.
Gathering up her papers at the end of a long day, Ms. Kind paraphrased Picasso to describe her own compulsion.
When Grüninger said he "could do nothing else," he may have been deflecting judgment, or he may not have been able to describe his sense of compulsion any better, his feeling that he didn't have a choice when he clearly did.
If you got this far, then you have already taken a stand against the temporal compulsions I describe in Present Shock.
"I CALL it the Zen bell," the photographer Joel Meyerowitz was saying recently, sitting in the sunshine in his Upper West Side apartment and studio, describing a nagging compulsion to begin a long-term project about banks in the wake of the Great Recession.
How to describe the strength of a compulsion?
They use it to describe new systems of force and compulsion associated with neoliberalism.
