Sentence examples for resist a compulsion from inspiring English sources

Speaking to reporters at Cannes, Refn said he felt powerless to resist a compulsion to depict violence on screen.

"We thought that, as British culture tends to oppose any type of compulsion, the fans would resist a policy.

Numbers resist a face.

You dare to resist a goddess?

Rivals can't resist a little gloating.

I know it's hard to resist the compulsion to mount barriers around what is good, but without getting all existential can we agree that nothing is permanent?

Certainly, I've been unable to resist the compulsion - even if I'm not as sure as some that the 1960 Hugo winner is an apologia for military dictatorship and institutional racism.

Resisting a Holy Truth.

We resist "compulsion," no matter from "whom".

The way to stop the ride and get off, he said, was to resist the compulsions.

I never smoked, but I imagine that to resist the compulsions of OCD must be like to trying to quit cigarettes.