Sentence examples for vague compulsion from inspiring English sources

The bookshelves groan with the travel books her late mother accrued and which she has "some vague compulsion to work through".

Thanks to the glut of autobiographies, their willingness to appear on Strictly Come Dancing and already annoying compulsion to do the poxy Mobot every time anyone looks even vaguely in their direction, it's easy to assume that the lustre of Team GB has already tarnished.

Not long ago, I rented the audiobook of "The Sun Also Rises," not so much because I felt a burning compulsion to reëxperience Hemingway's novel (which existed in my memory as a vaguely tiresome meditation on machismo, sexual impotence, and bullfighting) but because I was curious to hear how the actor William Hurt interpreted it.

The compulsion.

Compulsion becomes progressively harder.

This compulsion is unavoidable.

Or a compulsion.

Maddeningly vague?

Then an odd compulsion.

"It's a compulsion.

I understand the compulsion.