Sentence examples for without the compulsion from inspiring English sources
Now that logic is playing out in a war waged without the compulsion of necessity, the endorsement of the United Nations or the company of traditional allies.
Greenblatt: When I teach a course with my colleague Louis Menand that starts with Homer and goes up to Joyce, the pressure on enrollment is huge, because it turns out many students — without the compulsion of their teachers — feel that they really shouldn't go through their undergraduate years without reading the great imaginative works of the past.
In court documents filed in September, Mr. Kerik's new lawyer, Barry H. Berke, questioned why Mr. Tacopina met with prosecutors without the compulsion of a grand-jury subpoena, why he brought a lawyer to represent him, whether he violated attorney-client privilege and whether the government induced him to speak with "any threats, promises or other actions".
The brilliance of Tarik O'Regan and Tom Phillips's new chamber opera lies in its ability to convey all that horror without the compulsion to show it – the ultimate psychodrama – and to employ music of startling beauty to tell such a brutal tale.
The approach has its critics, who perhaps feel that translation should be a purer and more modestly auxiliary activity, though this is to reckon without the compulsions under which poets operate.
THE ATTIC Yoji Sakate has written a fascinating but overstuffed play about a Japanese trend without an American equivalent: the compulsion of some young people to withdraw to minuscule rooms for long periods of time.
The physical addiction had been dismantled, but the compulsion grew unchecked without its frame.
I know it's hard to resist the compulsion to mount barriers around what is good, but without getting all existential can we agree that nothing is permanent?
Without a ominous mandatory minimum term hanging over a defendant's head, the compulsion to cooperate and cause other arrests and prosecutions diminishes.
I understand the compulsion.
