Sentence examples for powerful compulsion from inspiring English sources

Tim's obsessive devotion to his work is ultimately overridden by a more powerful compulsion.

Indeed, in the last years of his life, when he developed brilliant coloured prismatic surfaces to his compositions, the loss of the powerful compulsion to recapture the Thundersley experience exposed the fudgy modelling and sentimentality of his figures.

That heavy subject has a powerful autobiographical compulsion.

The threat of disbarment and the loss of professional standing, professional reputation, and of livelihood are powerful forms of compulsion to make a lawyer relinquish the privilege.

Pedophilia remains endemic, a powerful, difficult-to-treat compulsion.

That threat is indeed as powerful an instrument of compulsion as 'the use of legal process to force from the lips of the accused individual the evidence necessary to convict him * * *.' United States v. White, 322 U.S. 694, 698, 64 S.Ct.

As B.F. Skinner discovered over 50 years ago, variable rewards are a powerful inducement to creating compulsions.

This compulsion is a powerful desire to participate in what the late eco-theologian Thomas Berry called the "Great Work," which is the ongoing transformation and evolution of ourselves, our world, and ultimately our universe.

These compulsions can be powerful and lead to maladaptive behaviors.

Further energy savings could be made by those who are addicted to revealing banal private information on social networking sites, although the compulsion to overshare online is so powerful that this form of de-cluttering should be taken in stages.

Yet the teenage compulsion to be cruel to fat peers appears powerful.