Using force to cause something

Usage examples of compulsion.

And she has an overriding compulsion to seek Boolean with or without me.

He had hated the insistent compulsions from Carida, but now he was left alone with his own thoughts--noto one else inside his skull to taunt him, or to guide him.

The compulsion to go to the Carpathian Mountains and find a particular cave was very strong, urgent, and had been planted years earlier.

Constitution, in characteristic Confucian fashion, offers general principles of guidance for rule by moral suasion rather than compulsion, which requires detailed laws with specified punishments.

Certain people, we must keep in mind, have forgotten that to which, from the beginning onwards, their longing and effort are pointed: for all that exists desires and aspires towards the Supreme by a compulsion of nature, as if all had received the oracle that without it they cannot be.

I did so on compulsion, in spite of my love for Ignazia, for I had no longer hopes of doing anything in Portugal, and my purse was nearly exhausted.

Kellhus noted, lingered near his groin, as though strain-ing against some overpowering masturbatory compulsion.

Kellhus noted, lingered near his groin, as though straining against some overpowering masturbatory compulsion.

France out of that narrow Atlantic-coast strip but that put her in a position to become the power that should in a very true sense force the jealous, many-minded colonies of that strip into a union, make possible the erection of that feeble union into a nascent nation, give it, though under certain compulsion, territory to become a world-power, and finally furnish it, if grudgingly, with a great western, overmountain domain in which to develop a democratic and a nationalistic spirit strong enough to hold a continent-wide people in one republic.

But whereas the scientist simplifies by a process of analysis and isolation, the politician can only simplify by compulsion, by a Procrustean process of chopping and stretching designed to make the living organism conform to a certain easily understood and readily manipulated mechanical pattern.

He also talked a great deal about fair rents and the compulsion that farmers are under to pay anything that their landlords choose to ask.

Driven by the compulsions of his self-imposed destiny, he won many converts on his endless circuit of speechmaking across the country.

The will of the sorcerer might be aimed principally at Uruk, but some of his compulsion spilled into my mind, churned and obscured my thoughts.

The World State of the modern Utopist is no state of moral compulsions.

He killed seventeen women, he had never been gainfully employed for any extended period of time, he suffered from an array of addictions and compulsions, and he was never self-sufficient.