Sentence examples for erotic compulsion from inspiring English sources
As a result, the reader sometimes feels inundated by a catalog of oddities — from climacophilia (the erotic compulsion to tumble down stairs) to melissophilia (lust for bees) to titillagnia (arousal from tickling) — rather than moved to empathy.
As he recognized the irrational recurrence of erotic compulsion, Merrill came sometimes to think of himself — of all of us — as puppets of the god Eros (later enlarged in "Sandover" to "God B," the "B" standing for "biology").
She has decided that Anna Nicole was driven, like Salome, by an erotic compulsion that compelled her to destroy herself: "I find her fascinating and tragic because she really went for death".
Contrary to widespread belief, Blanchard says, the majority of trans women in the West start off not as effeminate gay men but as straight or bisexual men, and they are initially motivated by erotic compulsion rather than by any conceived female identity.
We are asked to feel for Macbeth's victims' plight; given a discursive explanation of how Shylock came to behave as he does; presented with an understanding of why a woman might seem shrewish when she is only shy; shown Gertrude and Claudius grappling with their erotic compulsion toward each other in a manner essentially sympathetic to their entrapment.
A sympathetic critic might read the new work as a trenchant commentary on a consumerist society driven by narcissistic, auto-erotic compulsions.
Lulu and her men are caught in a destructive dance that has more to do with irrational compulsion than anything erotic.
If the play intends to explore either erotic sibling attraction or one woman's compulsion for being knocked around, it fails.
White calls himself a "sex-addict" who has "never failed to act on my erotic impulses", and it is integral to his personality as a writer that the compulsion to tell has been as strong, in its way, as the compulsion to act.
Compulsion becomes progressively harder.
