Sentence examples for is driven to commit from inspiring English sources
The film, about a schoolteacher who is driven to commit suicide after her love affair with a student comes to light, broke box-office records in France.
He also carries off a striking narrative trick: we learn on page 1 that his protagonist is driven to commit murder.
(Nicolas Rapold) 'Thérèse' (No rating, 1 50, in French) Audrey Tautou plays, awkwardly and unconvincingly, a woman who, in the French provinces in the 1920s, is driven to commit a terrible crime.
In "Thérèse," a 1920s woman is driven to commit a terrible crime, for all sorts of nominal reasons, though, in truth, her paramount motive is the accident of her birth: she's bourgeois.
Is Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov, the protagonist of "Crime and Punishment," simply a forerunner of Theodore Kaczynski, she asks in "Dostoyevsky's Unabomber," a "philosophical criminal of exceptional intelligence and humanitarian purpose who is driven to commit murder out of an uncompromising idealism"?
He daringly mixes riveting imagery -- westernized, modern, industrial, decadent, garish, comic book -- anything that will give an emotional and dramatic edge to the story of a bored, childless wife of a prosperous manufacturer in 19th-century Russia and the murders she is driven to commit.
This is the most memorable statement to come out of politics since Newt Gingrich told the world that he was driven to commit serial adultery by excessive patriotism.
Those who can't pay the charges may end up in jail for defaulting while others may be driven to commit further offences.
Based on a best-selling novel by the Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra, the story follows a secular Palestinian doctor living in Tel Aviv who is trying to understand why his wife was driven to commit a heinous suicide attack.
While recreational users can be fined, the law prevents addicts from having a financial penalty imposed for fear that in trying to raise the fine they might be driven to commit a crime.
The health risks associated with long working hours were highlighted earlier this month after a labour standards inspection office in Tokyo said Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old employee of the advertising giant Dentsu, had been driven to commit suicide due to stress brought on by long working hours.
