Sentence examples for physical compulsion from inspiring English sources

You are happy, and that happiness becomes a physical compulsion, one that drives your fingers to your smart phone.

Is any exchange between two people in the absence of direct physical compulsion by one party against the other (or the threat thereof) necessarily free?

If you say yes, then you think that people can never be coerced into action by circumstances that do not involve the direct physical compulsion of another person.

Under Spanish and Mexican rule, thousands of California Indians worked on missions and ranches, bound to their employment through a combination of economic necessity, captivity, physical compulsion and debt.

Tom Spackman as Jean, the valet, manages to combine an almost violent physical sexual compulsion with a cynical, selfish view of humanity in a way that makes him seem most dangerous when he is trying to be most comforting.

Affidavits submitted to the Egyptian supreme military court from two more of the co-accused who gave evidence against Abdellatif state: "their confessions in this case were the result of severe torture and physical and moral compulsion that they were subjected to by the dissolved State Security Apparatus".

Insecurities, physical flaws, neuroses, compulsions, confessions, iffy boyfriends, drunken encounters and thoughts of vengeance fill her songs.

It's easy to pronounce addiction "totally avoidable," but what help is that sentiment to someone who is already suffering the physical and mental compulsions of the disease?

This describes people who don't have the same compulsion or physical need to use a substance as those with dependence, but who use it on a regular basis.

That value is freedom--freedom from compulsion, coercion, physical force.

His courtship of Lydia Beardsall, from a genteel family that had come sharply down in the world, resembled a D. H. Lawrence short story: intense physical desire worked its compulsions across classes, and marriage was the quick result.