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Example sentences for: compulsion

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And being under the compulsion of no timetable, it does not get panicky under the necessity for such retreat.
The second film this summer featuring a little boy who sees dead people gets decent reviews, but most say it's not as good as the similar box office smash The Sixth Sense . Echoes focuses on the little boy's father, played by Kevin Bacon in "one of his best performances" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Bacon also possesses second sight, not to mention a compulsion to dig up his backyard following an impromptu hypnosis session at a party.
About the only mystery left is the psychological roots of the president's compulsion to lie under oath.
' In 1532 strain came also to imply compulsion, manifested in urethritis by urgency and frequency with scant flow.
The life and the work are bound together by this single character trait: not so much the instinct to create as the compulsion to erase.