Sentence examples for to compulsion from inspiring English sources
noun
An irrational need to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
- During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
He claimed successfully that the loss of privileges amounted to compulsion to incriminate himself.
I'm no stranger to compulsion or obsession; that's why I can write operas.
Of course, there's a link between sex and creativity, but Mollino's Polaroids really show what genius owes to compulsion.
Choice is preferable to compulsion: to call the licence fee a bargain but deny people the chance to judge that for themselves is a farce.
The imagination is situated in the body even if it breaks free of it, and it needs feeding up, nurturing and marshalling – indeed, it rarely responds to compulsion.
The scheme's detractors argued registering individuals when they applied for a designated document (for example, a passport) amounted to "compulsion by the back door".
And so I think in fact you don't have to give in to the compulsion to be homosexual.
Moreover, the pattern of the responses of the patients in the responder group differed from that of the Non-Responder-group in the items relating to the compulsion to start, compulsion to continue, primacy of effect, constancy of state and cognitive set.
Despite their resemblance to compulsions, their classification under the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum needs particular phenomenological and neurobiologic investigation.
Agents can be deprived of their autonomy by brainwashing, depression, anxiety, fatigue; they can succumb to compulsions and addictions.
An increased volume of the caudate nuclei was proportional to compulsions and rituals [ 12].
