As an adult, in moments of extreme stress, she has the compulsion to claw at her eyes as if to pluck them out.
Sport has always had a compulsion to find extremes, and cheating is nothing new.
Their murders, often described as "frenzied", are prompted by unimaginable compulsions, not by an extreme version of the passions that can afflict "normal" people.
Another paradox to Polly Harvey is the contradiction between the extreme nakedness of her songs, her apparent compulsion to lay bare her emotions (and frequently her flesh, as on the sleeve of her debut Dry and on an infamous NME cover), and her charming evasiveness in interview.
While compulsion may be an important possibility for extreme low-savers, it is decidedly illiberal and most countries have tried to encourage rather than compel more saving.Their main route has been the tax code.
In his darkest moments he fails to see the point of intensive-care units, where doctors often seem to pursue extreme methods, practically torturing patients, simply out of the compulsion to act.
A byproduct of this brand of positioning is the Broderish compulsion to assign equal blame to "both extremes" — even if one of them, for the moment, is a good deal more extreme than the other.
Like any compulsion, Museum Guilt Syndrome can be carried to dangerous extremes, as in the case of a Westchester banker who arrived at the closing day for a Rembrandt show and threatened to hold the museum director and his entire staff hostage if they did not keep the place open until he had viewed it.
It is a heady time and a kind of reward for New Yorkers worn down by the civic compulsion to dress well, and exhausted by the extreme sport that shopping becomes here -- a cruel game of hunting and gathering, getting and spending, practiced with cunning, sharp elbows and stealth.
Tourette's syndrome refers to a range of symptoms, from extreme tics to the most minimal expressions of movement or compulsions toward movement.
