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Example sentences for: compels

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In fact, Solondz compels us to collude with even his most unsavory characters.
The paranoid explanation is that the paper's growing dependence on movie ads compels her, in some oblique and unconscious way, to be an industry booster.
Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.
I'm being picky because I'm really thinking of buying the book--Shulevitz's review compels me.
What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.