Sentence examples for few compulsions from inspiring English sources

When you are a lad, a baby lad, you have few compulsions: the snot, streaming lazily from your nose; matching top bottom pyjamas sets; sending tiny hard resin army men down the stairs, pirouetting through the sky on a featherlight plastic parachute.

By the end of the course, however, she noticed that considerably fewer counting compulsions occurred during the sessions.

We loved SimCity for the first few hours, but the compulsion soon gave way to frustration.

Sometimes after only a few months, some strange compulsion would drive him to leave for another place.

Rather, it becomes clear, he has a compulsion that few doctors have ever believed and none has understood: his legs are the masters of his formidable intelligence.

The real crime of the charming and repellent de Sade, as imagined in Doug Wright's play and screenplay, is not so much his sexual depravity as the Marquis's casual endangerment of his few remaining loyalists in his compulsion to write and publish.

Prior to Escobedo and Miranda, few States were under any enforced compulsion on account of local law to grant requests for the assistance of counsel or to advise accused persons of their privilege against self-incrimination.

It's often said of Munro that her stories are so packed with emotion and incident that they are like novels — generations playing out their compulsions and longings across a few pages.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It's often said of Munro that her stories are so packed with emotion and incident that they are like novels — generations playing out their compulsions and longings across a few pages.

SINCE "Mad Men" arrived five years ago, immediately ascending to the status of compulsion, we've been spared few reminiscences from survivors of corporate debauchery in mid-20th-century Manhattan.

But do not despair if you cannot imagine how to break your compulsion to check emails every few minutes.