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Example sentences for: compulsion

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The director has backed away from what appears to be his real, more local, theme, which is the tug of war within American Jews of his generation between a compulsion to embrace other cultures and a feeling of superiority toward them.
The strength of Horwitz's book lies in his gift for fleshing them out through precisely rendered encounters with Southerners of all walks and all colors, united only by the common Southern compulsion to answer a question with a story.
He doesn't need the power and prestige of Washington and feels no compulsion to claw his way up.
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 life and the work are bound together by this single character trait: not so much the instinct to create as the compulsion to erase.