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Example sentences for: compulsion

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About the only mystery left is the psychological roots of the president's compulsion to lie under oath.
So Jan Morris's readers are free, perhaps encouraged, to think of a writer's labors in mythic, cosmic terms as part of post-Edenic compulsion.
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.
Buchanan and Clift agree--for once--in their prediction that Congress will legislate some form of protection for agents from a compulsion to testify.
' In 1532 strain came also to imply compulsion, manifested in urethritis by urgency and frequency with scant flow.