Sentence examples for immediate compulsion from inspiring English sources

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Only in the novel's closing lines are we given an idea of what this trauma might be, and there is an immediate compulsion to go back and reread this brief book.

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They are unable to resist the immediate urge to perform a compulsion, even though the consequences of capitulation are in the long run often worse than the typically transient experience of anxiety (2).

"In the US, where there is no compulsion to buy an immediate annuity [the US equivalent of an individual annuity], immediate annuities only comprise 3.6% or $8bn [£4.8bn] of total annuity sales".

"The sheer compulsion of reliable and almost immediate reward is being linked to similar chemical systems in the brain that may also play a part in drug addiction.

By now, her immediate family is fully attuned to Ms. Mann's compulsion to compose pictures.

Vast canvases, twice Wallinger's height and arm span, look at first like gigantic Rorschach tests; or at least this is the immediate association (Rorschachs being all about visual association and our compulsion to find the figurative in the abstract).

In the past decade, India's foreign policy faced many setbacks in its immediate neighbourhood largely due to the Manmohan Singh government's coalition compulsions.

In contrast to what happens to animals, who are unable to disengage themselves from the demands of the senses, humans can repel the compulsion of the passions in order to make choices that go beyond simple practical advantage and the immediate satisfaction of needs.

The compulsion.

Compulsion becomes progressively harder.

This compulsion is unavoidable.

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