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Example sentences for: compulsion

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Bush's compulsion to smirk bears no relation to the southern compulsion to smile , but is wholly the result of other phenomena.
When Bauer demanded that he commit to choosing a pro-life running mate, Bush felt no compulsion to respond to him at all.
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.
Bush's compulsion to smile is essentially southern, but the smile itself is corrupted by other influences (a few possibilities were cited in Chatterbox's previous item) that transform it into a smirk;
In both magazines: an examination of Kenneth Starr's legal case, a map of the White House diagraming what (allegedly) happened where, a profile of Lewinsky, a profile of Vernon Jordan, and an armchair analysis of Clinton's apparent sex compulsion.