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She fought the compulsion to light up a cigarette.
The child felt a compulsion to run as he walked past the old house.
If it is intended to carry out simple hypodermic inoculations and superficial venesections, Certificate A, granting this specific permission and dispensing with the necessity for general anæsthesia[Pg 335] must be obtained in addition to the license; whilst if the inoculation entails more extensive operative procedures, and it is necessary to observe the subsequent course of the infection, should such occur, the license must be coupled with Certificate B-since this certificate removes the compulsion to destroy the animal whilst under the anæsthetic.
Producing under such pressure or at least under the compulsion of filling a certain number of columns every week with witty comment on current events inevitably tends to careless writing.
It is easy to find fault with what tradition hands down, no less easy to draw up vague views of one's own, but how immense is the distance which separates procedure such as this from the creative effort which urges its sure way forward, from the synthesis which embraces all men's lives and exercises an elemental compulsion upon them.
No doubt we also think that in many cases where the compulsion of law is undesirable, the fear of moral censure and its consequences supplies a normally useful constraint on the will of any individual.
Physical compulsion or restraint was effectual, of course, while it lasted.
To both, of course, to the scholar and to the old maid, one concedes respectability, as if by way of indemnification-in these cases one emphasizes the respectability-and yet, in the compulsion of this concession, one has the same admixture of vexation.
Perhaps our great virtue of the historical sense is in necessary contrast to GOOD taste, at least to the very bad taste; and we can only evoke in ourselves imperfectly, hesitatingly, and with compulsion the small, short, and happy godsends and glorifications of human life as they shine here and there: those moments and marvelous experiences when a great power has voluntarily come to a halt before the boundless and infinite,-when a super-abundance of refined delight has been enjoyed by a sudden checking and petrifying, by standing firmly and planting oneself fixedly on still trembling ground.
And it is like bending back a stiff spring: it is by compulsion that I do the slightest act not prompted by one thought; and by compulsion that I notice anything alive or dead, which is not associated with one universal idea.
About the only mystery left is the psychological roots of the president's compulsion to lie under oath.
Why, oh why, do the neighbors feel this compulsion to brush aside the dark side of the killer next door?
" But their compulsion to suceed and their advanced degrees do them little good when it comes to getting along with regular people, a skill they must and eventually do master.
It seems only logical, then, not to segregate those questions from that life but to weave them in with the filmmaker's other obsessions: friendship, lust, drinking, love of trashy horror flicks, and the compulsion to sit around b.
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