"simply compelling" is a valid phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an object or idea that is particularly persuasive or well-argued. For example, "His speech was simply compelling; I had to agree with his argument."
I've written screenplays, I've written two Broadway musicals, I've written books, novels, nonfiction; if you put a gun to my head I would never be able to come up with something as simply compelling as that.
Still, nothing will ever compare to my utter adoration of the simply compelling story of the Boy who held too much power, and let himself rot his scarlet heart just for the pleasure of ruling forever.
The confusion arises, however, in that the colloquial meaning of proof is simply "compelling evidence", in which case scientists would indeed consider evolution "proven".
Instead of reinforcing the momentum with equally provocative language or even, more simply, compelling writing it is merely the bang and flash of the production that fuels the motor.
It simply compelled me; there was a profound mine of beauty and wonder in it.
It simply compelled me; there was a deep mine of beauty and wonder in it".
Ideally, America would accumulate so much strength, it could simply compel Soviet acceptance of its wishes, "negotiations or not".
Whether you love to hate him or hate to love him, you're simply compelled to relate to Tony Soprano.
Making this compulsory would simply compel larger companies to continue publishing the kind of information found in a typical annual sustainability report.
And to write "in a sort of haze", unsure what you're up to but simply compelled, may be no bad thing.
Politicians simply compelled these parents to short-change their own children's education to advance the private-school education of children in charters.
