Sentence examples for under a compulsion from inspiring English sources
At the same time, Fitzgerald often appeared to be under a compulsion to ridicule Murphy's elegant style.
Under these circumstances, the Austrian authorities were not only right to act, they were almost under a compulsion to do so.
Indeed it seems that this profound and lonely man was under a compulsion to make every great alteration in his life a matter for remorse, for the incursion of a general horror into the particular life.
Although he initially intended to focus on his relationship with his wife Ella, touching on the war only briefly, he soon felt under a "compulsion" to write more about his war experiences.
Evidence of that is the fact that, even at the height of his ultra-modernist notoriety, he also wrote several lyrical, tonal works, such as the First Sonata for Cello and Piano: "[It] was written in less than a week under a compulsion that was not to be resisted", Ornstein later said.
After declaring that the unconscious labors "under a moral compulsion to educate us," he inserts a parenthetical anticipating a dubious reader.
Though Mr. Yeltsin does not describe himself as an alcoholic, he confesses in the book to a compulsion to drink when under pressure, a compulsion he says he overcame to a great extent after his heart attack and by-pass operation in 1996.
"But it was a compulsion".
It was a compulsion, an obsession.
