Sentence examples for the compulsion of from inspiring English sources
The compulsion of chirality.
Dostoyevsky understood the compulsion of gambling firsthand.
Around the compulsion of writing he shaped everything else.
Under the compulsion of that ruling, the merits are now here.
In refusing a blood transfusion, the Shorters were acting under the compulsion of circumstances.
He was yielding, one could say, to the compulsion of history.
The sheer voraciousness of his dilutions suggests the compulsion of a pathological shoplifter.
The compulsion of Grass's story comes from the way he deliberately flaunts its unreliability.
The compulsion of the peer group is a greater force than coercion by officers or by the state.
Maybe he needed money, or he feared idleness would precipitate a breakdown, or he felt the compulsion of a storyteller.
In 1813, Wellington complained, 'We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.' The reason for this is probably that many recruits have been driven into the army by 'the compulsion of destitution' rather than for reasons of vocation, or a desire for adventure.
