Sentence examples for our compulsion from inspiring English sources
It's our compulsion, our obsession, our drug.
Puerto Rico has been so long under our thumb that the thought of her leaves our compulsion to quash Latin-American peoples dormant.
Instead, it highlights our compulsion to interrogate our ghosts in search of meaning — and the inexorable way they slip our grasp.
At a time when we really need to question our compulsion to consume, we are being assaulted wherever we go by advertising.
Park Avenue is a CAT scan of New York's collective brain: our ambition, our exhibitionism, our compulsion to build platforms for our ideas.
These questions animate "The Storytelling Animal," a jaunty, insightful new book by Jonathan Gottschall, who draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.
None of us will ever be completely free of our shortcomings and our compulsions, but by recognizing and accepting them, we can exercise more choice about whether to act them out.
Who would have imagined that finding this inner vastness frees us from our compulsions, habits, judgments, freeing us from ourselves?
It doesn't matter what you're watching or who you're trying to fuck; these are our compulsions, tame and generic as they are; exclusivity is over.
When the mind is able to quiet our compulsions and moods enough to access a richer intelligence, we can make better decisions.
Gothic requires victims, and, above all, inexplicably semi-willing ones; it is not just being taken over that provides the terror, but our knowledge of our collsion in the process, our inner compulsion to give ourselves over to desire, to death.
