Sentence examples for under the compulsion from inspiring English sources
Anthony adds that the presence, under the "compulsion" of when the screening starts, of fellow spectators — "we are strangers in communion" — is essential to the experience.
The answer is not likely to convince the scientist, because he has been forced, under the compulsion of facts and experiments, to renounce sense perception and hence common sense, by which we co-ordinate the perception of our five senses into the total awareness of reality.
And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat".--Lysander Spooner, American abolitionist and legal theorist.
Rather, the American government had itself created the compulsion under which it labored in Vietnam.
He knows that the scene he enjoys is one that he invents, albeit under the overwhelming compulsion induced by the actor and his lines.
Marxists concede that the proletariat is not enslaved, because they are not tied to any particular employer, but they transfer their labor to the capitalist under the "dull compulsion of economic relations".
It was his love and his life, the gift he had been given, the rock he clung to and the compulsion he laboured under, as his beloved Schubert had done.
I can understand easily the compulsion to crack jokes under these circumstances, because due to the socialisation we've all received, it's a sort of go-to coping mechanism.
I understand the compulsion.
But what compels the compulsion?
