Sentence examples for greater compulsion from inspiring English sources

When girls are amongst boys they feel a greater compulsion to be feminine – often without even realising it.

In his rousing call for resistance, Demosthenes asked his countrymen to take the necessary action and asserted that "for a free people there can be no greater compulsion than shame for their position".

In another study where intravaginal cleansing was associated with using HEC placebo gel, compared to the less viscous Acidform gel, the authors concluded that: "gels may have been sensed as moisture or wetness, … as more gel accumulated in the vagina, women may have experienced a greater compulsion to cleanse despite having been instructed not to do so" [ 39, p 193].

They have spread out because there are so few of them in any given trade or social status that they feel no great compulsion to hold together.

It was as if Georgia knew that she was female as surely as she knew that the sun would rise, and so felt no great compulsion to gild the lily of her true nature.

Aldridge writes that Hemingway's style "of a minimum of simple words that seemed to be squeezed onto the page against a great compulsion to be silent, creates the impression that those words if only because there are so few of them are sacramental".

And the further right on the political spectrum you go, the greater the compulsion to find something to rail against (the most versatile of all these bogeymen being "cultural Marxism").

Broad is unapologetic for refusing to walk in the first Test at Trent Bridge yet, unlike the other dozen or more batsmen on both sides who have edged and stood this series without any great reaction, his compulsion to broadcast his rationale has become counter-productive.

While some of you may struggle with cell phone overload from time to time, an addiction is far greater than a mild compulsion to check Facebook.

Another recent study by Nakatani et al. (2011) reported that young subjects with very early onset OCD (onset before 10 years of age) are characterized by a longer duration of illness, higher rates of comorbid tics, more frequent ordering and repeating compulsions, and greater parent-reported psychosocial difficulties.

The book is a great example of how a compulsion for obsession can make for obsessively interesting art.