Sentence examples for of a compulsion from inspiring English sources

Lately, however, HBO seems to have developed something of a compulsion.

They pounded through his consciousness with the force of a compulsion").

People speculate, as they will, that Zwirner's ambition arises out of a compulsion to surpass his father.

Telling all is sort of a compulsion - I can't really help it so I have to live with it.

James turned to fashion, he explained to a correspondent, "out of a compulsion to be involved in a business of which my father disapproved".

The movie screen is the wild west of the limbic brain – we do not like to be told that such figures are the victims of a compulsion.

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

But when you've been on the receiving end of gaslighting, a compulsion for accuracy can be a survival mechanism.

The time-honored and most low-tech method of nipping a compulsion in the bud is aversion therapy.

He sometimes addressed an imaginary bird on his shoulder, and he was widely known as Tappy because of his superstitious habit, perhaps a compulsion, of tapping people and things a given number of times on given days.

I began to have a kind of tunnel vision – a compulsion to explore colour, form and life in this very rich and treacherous environment.