Sentence examples for kind of compulsion from inspiring English sources

"Is there some kind of compulsion or repulsion about flesh?" she wonders.

I think there must be a kind of compulsion about it.

At the same time, though, there is a link between a coastal setting and some kind of compulsion towards death.

Feeling very much the author, I was emboldened to ask her whether she, too, had a kind of compulsion to write — although I secretly doubted whether hers had the same source as mine.

This is in itself a period attitude: if you read the lyrics of the great libertine poet of the period, the Earl of Rochester, you will know that the rational debauchee describes his promiscuity as a kind of compulsion.

Feeling very much the author, I was emboldened to ask her whether she, too, had a kind of compulsion to write although I secretly doubted whether hers had the same source as mine.

My attempt to do that is a printed book, but at any rate, I do have this notion that our lives show, if not a pattern, at least a kind of compulsions or recurrent events worth examining.

He's driven by the kind of fanatical compulsion that Hollywood tends to confuse with missionary zeal.

It's a kind of envious compulsion that tabloids have fed for decades and that new media now intensify with fast, cheap dopamine-blasting hits at the click of a remote.

"There is a view of the BBC that there is within its DNA a kind of imperial compulsion," he said, explaining why the BBC needs "clear boundaries" to emerge from the current strategic review.

Walter Benjamin recognised that in consumerist society we're locked into a kind of degrading compulsion: we buy new stuff to conceal from ourselves our disappointment about the failings of the old stuff.