Sentence examples for empty compulsion from inspiring English sources

Burning in her eyes, from her first entrance, is a cold ambition to get ahead, which turns deliciously poisonous in Act III: she makes the "Benares Song" — "There is not much fun on this star" — a thing of drugged beauty, the pursuit of pleasure transformed into empty compulsion.

A compulsion which means she now lives alone in a flat with an empty fridge.

The compulsion to talk when the room falls quiet, to switch on the radio in an empty room, to rush from country quiet back to the reassuring roar of town.

The compulsion.

Compulsion becomes progressively harder.

This compulsion is unavoidable.

Or a compulsion.

"It cannot come from compulsion".

But there's no compulsion.

Then an odd compulsion.

"It's a compulsion.