| 单词 | compulsion |
| 例句 | Only my Bledsoe-trustee inspired compulsion to read all papers that touched my hands prevented me from throwing the envelope aside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For that reason she felt no compulsion to verify herself—be consistent with herself. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He would not understand how I could take such a man seriously, he would not understand the compulsion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have no idea why you felt this strange compulsion to tell me this, but whatever, you did. Now can you get out of the way? I have to get to class.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Instead, a strange compulsion held him where he was and, already queasy, doomed to witness the crude brutal demise of his early-morning tormentors, he waited for the sword to fall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I did feel different: larger, fuller, more complete, no longer divided against myself—compulsion to comply against wish to refuse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And so he paid for his fastidious nature, his compulsion to keep things perfect. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z My compulsion to be always on the move began to fade. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For no less under compulsion do men tell lies rather than the truth, either enduring rather than telling the truth or easily making false accusations so that the torture may stop sooner. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But when she reached the treeline she felt a compulsion to continue into the forest instead of turning west. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z State and county officials are under no compulsion to follow the federal pesticides tolerances unless local laws happen to conform — and they seldom do. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I had the strangest compulsion to open his cage and let him out. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Maybe, he thought, technology creates more of a compulsion than an addiction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Eventually, though, I realized these inclinations, these compulsions, were as much a part of the body as its eye color or its voice. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z For many others, particularly since technology has gotten more powerful, the signs of compulsion are even stronger. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Henry has no idea it was I who told, and so he has had no compulsion to kill me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Frodo clambered on to it, and then moved as if by some compulsion he turned slowly to face the East. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Welling up, building up, rising, filling her—something in her that should not have been there, and every night that passed it was harder to resist its compulsions. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Many style experts warn against the compulsion to name things with different words when they are mentioned multiple times. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Now the compulsion to activity, to filling up the time when he was not happily fishing on the riverbank, had dwindled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They were racked with guilt for being alive, racked with pain in their heads and fear of ghosts, racked with nightmares and strange compulsions, punishments for being alive when the others were dead. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z One more who had avoided furious death was the son of Terpis, Phemios, the minstrel, singer by compulsion to the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed to understand the compulsion that started him on each long, fruitless journey with new hope. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the baroque ecstasy, none of the grotesque compulsion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt adrift inside, as if I had a compulsion not to be myself. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “It’s just since I moved in here. It was neat when I moved in, and I’ve had the compulsion to keep it that way. It upsets me now if anything is out of place.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Whether the word is ‘impulse,’ or ‘compulsion,’ or ‘addiction,’ clearly there is an overtaking of rational, logical processing of information and judgment like we see with other drugs,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Malcolm’s attitude was that of a man who had reached a crossroads in his life and was making a choice under an inner compulsion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was very tired, but sometimes fatigue can be a stimulant and a compulsion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s ridiculous and I know it, but right now, the compulsion is to get away from them before I wear out whatever welcome I still have. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “I really need to learn that sometimes it’s best if I just listen. It’s a compulsion of mine, always wanting to be involved.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Pick it up,” he says, and I feel the compulsion of a glamour. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They swarmed all over each other in their frenzied compulsion to bludgeon him, kick him, gouge him, trample him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A certain compulsion forced him to continue to search for the secrets of the chessboard, and this preoccupation commanded his attention for hours on end. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They have no compulsion to prevent one coming to harm through an extraneous agency such as gamma rays. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The thing is, the information that comes in may not be crucial at all; it may actually be irrelevant, spam, but, weirdly, that seems to reinforce the compulsion to answer the device. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Cicero ends with a final address to Catiline, and then with a contrastive apostrophe to Jupiter—effectively putting Catiline’s decision to depart under the compulsion of a God. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s my self-sabotaging fingers and their unstoppable compulsion to pinch and zoom. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And we know now that their union also presents the challenge of addiction, or, at least, serious compulsion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As of its own compulsion, the car slowed as we passed the chapel with its low, sweeping eaves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed the book and pulled out another, and another, motivated by a rising compulsion she did not understand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She leaps out of the hammock and whispers, “I feel a sudden compulsion to do homework.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The island had come under repeated assault, prompting a resurfacing of Olmsted’s old anger about the compulsion of clients to tinker with his landscapes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He moved in Minya’s wake, stiffly, as though fighting a compulsion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I lean over, take the bag, and pick out a couple of pieces, hanging off the bed, a strange compulsion forcing me to stare at the screen. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “In Islam there is no compulsion in religion. One person does not have the right to dictate how another believes or lives.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But Heti makes this erotic compulsion a keystone of Sheila’s quest to figure out what she wants from life and how to get it. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z And the compulsion of movie and TV directors to change the story for dramatic effect means that the result is bound to be incompatible with accurate history. Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011-02-19T00:05:34Z Like Macbeth, the murderous Todd is defeated by the same compulsion that brought him greatness in the first place. Sweeney Todd 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z In 1995, after a lower court argued that “racial isolation” in education—that is, continuing segregation of black and white schools, without formal state compulsion—was a constitutional injury to black schoolchildren, Thomas took offense. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The sheer volume of his work suggested a mania or compulsion, but he harbored a naked ambition for mainstream success. Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Her compulsion, her sense of place, grounds the series, making it as much about the characters as it is about the crimes. Alafair Burke's obsession with a killer leads to a detective character 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Like me refreshing my feeds, players of the game are caught in a loop of desire and rejection, a compulsion to keep playing when there are no rewards left. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Self-inflicted wounds were always part of the bargain for Faith No More, which blazed a trail for alternative metal in the 1980s and ’90s, always with a compulsion for subverting expectations. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z But does Willy fit even Miller’s definition of a man who is moved by “the compulsion to evaluate himself justly”? Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z It is rooted in childhood abandonment and psychological abuse, in broken homes and wildly dysfunctional relationships and addiction and compulsion and anger. Who’s the real insane clown posse? Trump fans give Juggalos a run for their money in “7 Days in Ohio” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The other is the compulsion to run for office. 11 ways to think about the Anthony Weiner-Huma Abedin split 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In 2006 the British Medical Journal carried an examination of the evidence by Dorothy Robinson, an Australian statistician, into what actually happened in New Zealand and Australia after helmet compulsion laws were passed. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z He followed the trial coverage and found it telling that one of the first questions from the jury involved the legal definition of “consent” and “forcible compulsion.” Weinstein case could influence other sex crime prosecutions 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi also posit that television likely sparks our “orienting response,” an innate biological compulsion to coolly observe sudden sound and movement to assess for potentially harmful threats. You really can’t peel yourself away from “Making a Murderer”: The twisted psychology behind your binge-watching 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z But the same focused devotion — or obsessive compulsion — drives each painter’s art. The stomach-churning, visceral power of Chris Finley's weightlifter portraits 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z If I’m not working, I don’t feel this compulsion. David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Looking at the page then provides a release for your anxiety, curiosity and compulsion. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parents’ relationship goes to the dog 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z As one who grew up under a totalitarian regime, he questions the perennial compulsion to look to strong leaders for answers. 'The Conference of the Birds': reviving a 12th-century Persian epic 2011-11-16T22:53:03Z It's the word "need" that reveals so much: it's not that we're all going to die, or that he would like to die, it's the acknowledgement of compulsion. Why we can't get enough of Wallander 2012-07-23T11:47:16Z It is one in which the characters, even the bull, are subject not to the whims of gods and metaphors but to their own compulsions and machinations. ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ Review: Hit and Run, Sleight of Hand 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z I’m glad I included it, but I still think that it should not overshadow everything else just because it’s the one compulsion that I think most people are familiar with. Author Sharon Begley on why we “Can’t. Just. Stop.” being compulsive 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z There are relationships of all varieties out there and plenty where the sexual compulsion has long since ebbed. Our relationship is perfect – except we don’t have sex | Dear Mariella 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Gosling, who recently moved to New York from Los Angeles, says choosing roles is more like a "compulsion" than an art. Ryan Gosling remembers trying to impress 1st crush 2011-07-17T22:31:04Z I understood his compulsion to strive after something he wanted so badly but would never have, because I felt the same way. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z “I see people with shopping compulsions who are in so much debt because they couldn’t stop themselves from buying three dresses in different sizes, that in the end their businesses and families suffer.” Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z "I say with no pride at all that I've won and lost a million dollars at races, so that level of compulsion is not unfamiliar to me," admits Milch. A change in Luck 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z And the resulting feeling was one that helped understand Spector's compulsion on some level. Emmy Contenders: 'The Fall's' Jamie Dornan found his inner stalker for some perspective 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Gertrude Stein’s cut-and-paste approach to language is an obvious influence, jazzed up by Johnson’s penchant, verging on compulsion, for associative wordplay and puns. ‘Not Nothing’ Tries to Capture the Artist Ray Johnson 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Whenever there's a film based on real people, it's practically a legal compulsion now to show a sentimental, celebratory snapshot of these real people over the closing credits. The Fighter ? review 2011-02-03T22:00:02Z “Many women who have been victimized engage unconsciously in repetition compulsions, seeking out archetypes and familiar situations, and through that they can be victimized.” 'I was fresh meat': how AA meetings push some women into harmful dating 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z For a while, it seemed, the makers of American romantic comedies were in the grips of repetition compulsion. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z He also liked to gamble — though putting it this way implies it was more fun thrill than desperate compulsion, when for him it was palpably both. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The most troublesome is her compulsion to brag about every party of mine she goes to, to people who were not invited. Ask Amy: Sisters’ trip starts out in deep hole 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z What comes across, wandering among these works that take the most banal of found images and raise them to the monumental, is a sense of huge energy and compulsion in the pair's search for ephemera. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z During a freezing tour of lavish store windows, Ms. Hoffman, 53, an equal-opportunity misanthrope, skewered the holidays, the cruel fickleness of show business and her relentless compulsion to hawk her show. Encounters : In New York City Christmas Comedy Show, Jackie Hoffman Lampoons Holiday 2013-12-18T23:24:10Z Jimmy McNulty of “The Wire” “swears off the twin compulsions of booze and police work; he goes back to both, while the rest of ‘The Wire’s’ most zealous reformers find themselves corrupted.” Books of The Times: Brett Martin’s ‘Difficult Men’ Sees a New Golden Age for TV 2013-06-24T21:26:42Z “The more you act on your fears, your rituals, compulsions and avoidance, the bigger the fears get,” she says. America’s germaphobes were ready for this — and have been for too long 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z And again and again, and closer and closer, it returns to a speeding commuter train, a recurrence that artfully foreshadows the story’s nifty repetition compulsion. | 'Source Code': Don?t Know Who You Are, but Don?t Know Who I Am 2011-03-31T21:49:12Z For all of this you can thank Cameron, and Tim Burton, who directed Alice in Wonderland— not to mention the mass audience's compulsion to see the big new movies in the big hot format. The 3-D Pileup: Too Many Movies, Not Enough Screens 2010-04-02T07:15:00Z He sweet talks our darker impulses in a way that makes his murders justifiable, understandable even, although we – and he – know his compulsions are immoral. The latest "You" makes a killing in the 'burbs, fulfilling the dark fantasies we'd rather ignore 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z For all the questions the show raises about consumption and addiction, Ms. Roughan and Mr. Green agree that it’s just as much about the compulsion to tell stories, and the uncontrolled places they can lead. They Talk About Porn in This Show. Audience Participation Is Encouraged. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z At nine years old, I began feeling a compulsion to touch certain objects in my bedroom or on the playground at particular moments. I've spent years taming the OCD monster. Coronavirus has ruined everything 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z And there's a chance that the man's wife actually left him because of his demented compulsion to transcribe her every word on the internet. Causing a divorce is the least of Frozen's crimes 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “Once you get the bug, it’s like a compulsion,” he says. Stickering is an increasingly popular art form for D.C. artists, particularly women 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z He seems to understand that kind of compulsion, or at least propulsion, first-hand. Good Time directors the Safdie brothers: ‘Robert Pattinson was just a guy chasing work’ 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The drugs-as-instruments idea is a shift from the usual way of seeing drug use as a mark of human failure, whether as a step toward addiction or a purely Bacchanalian compulsion. Why the world’s remaining hunter-gatherer societies are some of its biggest pot smokers 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The underlying reason some people suffer from sexual compulsion is that their brains are wired to support obsessional thinking. My husband's addicted to pornography and uses me sexually to re-enact his online viewing 2010-10-07T20:00:00Z The problem, he continued, “is when the compulsion doesn’t achieve its purpose.” Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z He was merely playing out a grim compulsion to keep saying the words in front of a group of adults too liberal to give him a clip round the ear. The Road to Wellville: a Kellogg's biopic with snap, crackle and crock 2010-07-29T16:49:00Z Down to his casually sexist brush-off, Don is the ultimate dysfunctional American patriarch: He can't resist his ego-driven compulsion to be a leader, but he balks at the responsibility it entails. "Mad Men" recap: Who is Don Draper? 2010-07-26T06:02:00Z I'm overcome by a sense of compulsion to drag it home, or type, "Hi, is this still available?" to the seller. The dining chair trend we just can’t get enough of 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z At the end of a session, my therapist Ellen said, casually: “I’m concerned about your obsessions and compulsions. Let’s talk more about it next time.” Clenching and counting: how I get through the holidays with OCD 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z But three years ago, her wife Heather became pregnant, Warners dropped the band, and the compulsion became uncontrollable. 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z There is a monster at the end of all of my novels, and I want you to feel this unbearable compulsion to turn pages and find out what it is.” 50 years later, ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ is still selling — and inspiring authors 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Consider a representative passage from the two books, each of which deals with reconciling the suspicion that art may be useless with the compulsion to make it anyway. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z In real life, she is similarly warm and chatty, with something of a compulsion to put the person next to her at ease. Kelly Ripa has made a career of being herself. Where does she go from here? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Save your 'creativity' for your knitting, this maddening compulsion to 'improve' nature is turning cooking into a freak show. A God Among Vegetables 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z I also wonder if she might feel freed from such compulsion, the urge to lunge from temptation toward another, never being quite satiated, never enough, choking herself on the leash. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Some of the rules are rooted in compulsion or perhaps neuroses. This summer, I finally surrendered to the pumpkin spice creep — and you should, too 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z It all suggests a state of autism, a consciousness cocooned within its own obsessive compulsions. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z On the other hand, the common thread helps us understand people in the painful throes of love compulsions. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z “I don’t write from a compulsion to provide for the reader a Native American, Great Plains, or for that matter German-American experience,” she said. Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z For all the pressure he was under, though, he says there was no compulsion to make his film fit within the wider framework of movies Marvel is currently assembling. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z He had a horror of “letting people down”—and a compulsion to do just that. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z This is one of the many accidental effects of helmet compulsion. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Although Versweyveld was a painter without a theater background, they immediately felt a compulsion to work together — and the feeling hasn't let up. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z A tip must also be made free from compulsion and should not be the subject of negotiations or dictated by employer policy. Are forced gratuities legal or not? The answer may disappoint stingy diners 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Never does he open up to anyone about his private compulsions. Review: Nightcrawler: Jake Gyllenhaal Wants to Take a Picture of You in Pain 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The second reason behind this compulsion to binge is, of course, simple availability. Netflix and stress: is binge-watching out of hand? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Dole, and noted that the law was upheld in part because the “relatively small financial inducement offered by Congress” meant the federal law merely applied “pressure” – but not “compulsion” – to the states. Could the PPACA's Medicaid Expansion be Unconstitutional? 2012-01-27T20:02:03Z And he was fascinated by the people: driven by a compulsion to acquire, yet seldom displaying any serious inclination toward power and wealth. The Flea Circus 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z However, technique, mood and compulsion all seem entirely surmountable with focus from both parties. I’m happy with my boyfriend but don’t want sex 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z A diet is one of life’s little side hustles, an extra nudge into vigilance or compulsion or rigor. Body of work: Women writers on disordered eating, writing the body and the book launch diet 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Underhill: It relates partly to age: The older we are, the more compulsion we have to answer the phone when it rings. Circa Now: Shopping Etiquette: For Customers and Sales Workers, Advice on How Not to Be Rude 2014-01-24T21:08:05Z While in the early stages, the virus creates a crippling compulsion to twirl and twirl and twirl in front of the mirror, humming, "So this is love, hmmm, so this is love!" Are "The Real Housewives" really flesh-eating zombies? 2010-10-16T23:01:00Z There was a lot of emotional thinking or perhaps even emotional compulsion that went into the book. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z But his compulsion to turn out a clunker every year, with the financiers who enable him means that his turkeys now far outnumber his gems. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z I'm aware of where my compulsions lie and there's a bit of stepping back from that power socket. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z When she fails to get pregnant, it spirals into an unhealthy obsession, propelled by biological compulsion, but also by a fierce refusal to accept this lack of control. Billie Piper Hasn’t Looked Back Since She Left the Tardis 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Virginia’s autobiographical writing and letters make it plain that she experienced strong physical compulsions outside her romantic relationships. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Its main flaw is a compulsion to tie up its stories too neatly. | 'Hello Lonesome': Among Lonelyhearts, a Meeting of Minds 2011-05-26T21:01:44Z Mr. Heppner’s hearty tenor showed occasional signs of strain, but it would be difficult to imagine a performer better suited to convey Ahab’s complex mix of demoniac compulsion and fleeting heroism. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z Later, to feed the ogbanje, she develops a compulsion to cut herself. In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z In that case, I'd argue that my compulsion to eat something green with every meal almost always wins, regardless of the state of said green thing. Gives peas a chance? It's time for their turn in the "it vegetable" spotlight 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Most everything in “Two Alike” gets repeated, and the effect is usually to expose compulsion. Dance Review: Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson?s ?Two Alike? at the Kitchen 2012-05-21T05:16:46Z Just as likely they are indulging a compulsion about which Mr. Mayer, the musician, becomes dreamily rhapsodic in a Hodinkee video. For Luxury Watch Buyers, One Just Isn’t Enough 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Still, none of Calvino’s stories is truly whimsical; they possess a dryness of tone, as well as a logician’s compulsion to run through every possible permutation or implication of any line of thought. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Complete Cosmicomics,’ by Italo Calvino Underlying every compulsion is the need to avoid what causes you pain or angst. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Freud identified this as the “repetition compulsion”, the unconscious tendency to place ourselves in situations that are versions of the past – or to construe them that way. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z That there would be some days that would be better, but that the compulsion to self-destruct would always exist within me. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z INDECLINE, an underground collective of anonymous artists, feels a similar compulsion to speak directly to the public. 'We get people to stop and look': The election year's most provocative political artists 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z There's a lost opportunity here to more fully examine the media's compulsion to cleanse his reputation and pretend his many political sins committed before 9/11 didn't matter. Is CNN's "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?" a matter worth pondering right now? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Its portrayal of the protagonist was notable for understanding that his larcenous compulsion was less an expression of anger or sociopathy than of painful, alienated self-expression. Theodore Weesner, Author of ‘The Car Thief,’ Dies at 79 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s a small world, but it wouldn’t be as small if not for Hannibal’s own dark compulsions. Hannibal recap: season three, episode five – Contorno 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z There may be some sort of compulsion of people saying like, wait a minute. "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Owing to a hereditary compulsion to eat fresh fruit and vegetables with every meal, I occasionally find myself in a panic when the veg drawer stores have dwindled at lunch or dinner time. Green cabbage merits your undivided attention 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z She has decided that Anna Nicole was driven, like Salome, by an erotic compulsion that compelled her to destroy herself: "I find her fascinating and tragic because she really went for death." Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z And yet, amid a national climate of rising racial tension, the compulsion to engage this history was for me visceral, akin to the urge to revisit a crime scene. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Drawing was “my holy compulsion,” he said, and he drew constantly throughout his career, filling six-ring notebooks with sketches of people and landscapes and studies for sculptures and installations. Art Review: Dan Flavin, Light Sculptor, in Another Medium at the Morgan 2012-02-23T22:36:10Z Despite keeping their friendship a secret from their classmates, the girls provide one another with support as they navigate abusive relationships, absent parents and compulsions to steal. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trinkets’ and ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Especially in its early years, that show balanced its pulp story with moral introspection and family drama, but it grew mired in plot complications and a compulsion to one-up its own shock scenes. Review: In ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ a Warrior Switches Blades 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The absolute order signaled by duplication can also come across as half-mad compulsion: When certain artists in this show see double, you want to breathalyze them. Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The younger generation's compulsion to be completely honest about every aspect of their lives is not admirable. At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z I get the compulsion to blame Che for everything that's still wrong with "And Just Like That" since the new season has yet to add as much dimension to other characters who deserve more expansion. "And Just Like That," Miranda ruined Che for viewers 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z There is also no compulsion for you to indulge in actions that you don’t feel comfortable with. My girlfriend wants me to spank her. Should I feel guilty? 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Her initial distaste quickly gives way to sympathy when David reveals that his sometime compulsion to cross-dress returned after his wife’s death, and that putting on her clothes is his way of keeping her alive. Review: In ‘The New Girlfriend,’ a Widower’s Secret Life Is Revealed 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He has sexual compulsions, but he’s not completely oblivious. Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z And unlike so many of his contemporaries, writing music for Henze was an unavoidable, irresistible compulsion. A guide to Hans Werner Henze's music 2012-10-29T16:23:35Z The British Dream raises the question as to whether someone who believes in quite so much exclusion and compulsion is any kind of liberal. David Goodhart's book on immigration earns him snub from Hay festival 2013-05-27T18:10:44Z Before watching "Swarm," I would have politely suggested that the compulsion to describe anything that doesn't fit neatly into a box as "a provocation" was a cop-out. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z She even offered me a bed for the night, but I declined: I needed to walk — it was becoming a compulsion. A Walk From Vienna to Budapest 2010-05-22T02:41:00Z She also embraces female desire as compulsion and challenge. Jazmine Sullivan Ponders Love and Materialism on ‘Heaux Tales’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z If what happens in Las Vegas stays there, too often the compulsion is to find trouble. Las Vegas was built by gangsters, and we celebrated those stories 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z What caused this sudden mass compulsion to organize? The Clean Queen Talks Quarantine 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Commonalities between the pieces appeared coincidental, except perhaps for purposeful awkwardness and a compulsion to repeat. Solos by DD Dorvillier’s Colleagues at St. Mark’s Church 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z You should look at any of your own behaviors that might contribute to or enable her compulsion. Perspective | Ask Amy: Wife’s hoarding may bury the family 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “I want the earliest copy on record,” he once wrote of his compulsion. Frame: Bookstores as Galleries of the Page 2012-08-16T20:19:06Z A book of short stories charting similar compulsions, The Song of Silent Snow, followed in 1986, and then two late novels, the last of which, Waiting Period, appeared in 2002. Treasuring Hubert Selby Jr 2010-09-16T13:51:00Z Edward suffers from repetition compulsion, Oyelowo said, a Freudian term for the need to re-enact an earlier trauma with the objective of providing a new outcome. In ‘The Girl Before,’ Minimalism Offers a Dangerous Sanctuary 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z One is establishing the distinction in our very often fluid conversation between compulsion and addiction: what those both are and how those things really boil down. Author Sharon Begley on why we “Can’t. Just. Stop.” being compulsive 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z At the same time Elly pursues her compulsion for ocean swimming and ends up being stalked by a goat that walks upright. New Books From Joe Dunthorne, David Finch and Stef Penney 2012-01-18T22:38:31Z But in Puz/zle, it's the urge to connect that itself becomes his subject, as it addresses the human compulsion to build order and pattern in the world. Puz/zle – review 2013-04-25T17:02:05Z At the same time, it’s a genuine expression of his all-too-human predicament—his compulsion to do good as a way of distancing himself from his loved ones, and hurting them in the process. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Her anger takes us with her, back to that place of self-hatred and compulsion — back to the kitchen counter, scooping granola by the handful into her open mouth. She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z But the compulsion to feed isn’t purely maternal — it’s the reason I cook professionally, too — and cooking to feed isn’t completely selfless. Yes, You Can Make Salmon on the Stovetop Without the Smell 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Journaling his life grew into a compulsion that continues to this day. David Sedaris is 60 and ready to look back — again 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z But The British Dream raises the question as to whether someone who believes in quite so much exclusion and compulsion is any kind of liberal. The British Dream by David Goodhart – review 2013-04-03T10:04:20Z Second, I realised that although people with the most extreme compulsions seem like outliers, the anxiety that drives them to those extremes is universal – and underlies milder compulsions, too. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z As orderly as they are, the songs turn out to be highly controlled environments for the uncontrollable: irrational passions and compulsions that continue in self-destructive cycles, even when everyone involved knows better. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z But that compulsion produced voluminous notes chronicling his travails on Italian railways, so Italian Ways takes its place among Parks's warts-and-all snapshots of the country. Italian Ways by Tim Parks – review 2013-06-22T13:00:02Z His compulsion to mold every aspect of his surroundings to his own specifications is known to everyone who works for him. Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z My grandmother also cultivated a massive garden that forever imprinted a love — ahem, compulsion? — to incorporate seasonal produce into every meal, which she passed to my mom. Why do I cook like a Sicilian? 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Far from ruining his writing, the constraint imposed by his justification compulsion—even if it vanished in the end result, like self-dissolving sutures—was really saving it. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Stripped naked, literally and often emotionally, she lived out the fantasies and compulsions of the man directing her. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z “Recorder” doesn’t explore the extent to which Marion’s original project of analysis was subsumed by the compulsion to tape everything. ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Review: A VCR Obsession 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z For a writer, who may have fought every social compulsion to "grow up", whose inner world has been constellated around avoiding that surrender, this is an interesting predicament. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z His justification compulsion, he now realized, had to be seen, similarly, as his brain’s attempt to swaddle his fiction. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Most are married heterosexuals who occupy respectable positions in mainstream society, but each feels a compulsion to set free the woman lurking inside of him. In 'Casa Valentina,' cross-dressing men show their feminine side 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Amir questions his wife on her compulsion to portray him in the manner of a Moor who was Velázquez’s slave. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Yet Drugstore Cowboy ties that compulsion to organization and elaborate bits of drug logic and superstition, which suggests more structure to an addict’s behavior than the ordinary person’s. Drugstore Cowboy at 30: is this the best film ever made about addiction? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Tucking a stray wisp of russet hair behind one ear, she added: “I will say that I have always had the compulsion to put down roots. I love having a house. I love belonging someplace.” Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Janelle Hanchett, a mother of three in Northern California, said the compulsion to monitor feedback on her blog, Renegade Mothering, had affected her writing. This Life: For Some Social-Media Users, An Anxiety From Approval Seeking 2014-05-09T20:44:11Z Still, Meyer is an amiable narrator, and he introduces the reader to some of China’s greatest paradoxes, notably a pride in history that coexists with a compulsion to destroy the past. Eyewitnesses to America’s Greatest International Competitor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Then came the vampire dream, and the compulsion to record it. Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z His fate may be perpetual imprisonment in his compulsions; at the end of the film he's where he began. Sex and Shame in Venice: Michael Fassbender Is a Real X-Man 2011-09-05T09:45:00Z There are enthralling episodes when Ms. Mearns dances with graceful movements tinged with frenzied compulsion. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z These Hollywood acts of allegedly criminal behaviour may indeed be a compulsion – but I’m afraid the “allegedly criminal” bit trumps the “compulsion” bit every time. Can we get to the bottom of the mystery virus streaking through Hollywood? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Clarence’s ruse exploits not only George’s selflessness but also his tragic compulsion to satisfy debt. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z If the compulsion to eat other people can’t be suppressed, could it somehow be managed? ‘Bones and All’ Review: You Eat What You Are 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Whatever unfathomable traumas engendered his worst compulsions also fueled his genius. My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z This uniquely western, capitalist compulsion to purchase, own, and amass private property as an individual is obviously threatened by a lifestyle that encourages more thoughtful consumption. The willful misinterpretation of Marie Kondo's decluttering is rooted in racism and capitalism 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z While his first book, “Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me,” examined petty but humanizing rivalries among music stars, this follow-up investigates our compulsion to gaze upon these figures as gods. Review | Can classic rock survive the death of classic rock stars? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And though Springsteen’s compulsion to perform hasn’t let up at age 68, he’s found a way to minimize his travel by settling in with a 15-month stint on Broadway. The classic-rock generation is getting ready to retire. Who will fill their shoes? 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Maybe it is a creative compulsion, she added. On the Runway Blog: Jil Sander Gets Her Groove Back 2012-06-27T15:01:37Z He’s better at explaining his compulsion to run for and be in office. In ‘Mayor for Life,’ D.C.’s Marion Barry takes pride in himself but little blame for problems The lyrics also reflect the ruling compulsion of Franklin, who has been searching for someone to fill a void left by the father he never knew. Review: This ‘Daddy’ Has Issues. A Pool and Alan Cumming, Too. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Pat Barker has a penchant – or perhaps compulsion – for revisiting her characters, most obviously in the Regeneration trilogy, which culminated with 1995's Booker prize-winning The Ghost Road. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Two movies depicting the excesses of demonstrative wealth and the compulsion to one-up your social media friends, released by two media titans fighting for your streams. Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Both voice themes of compulsion, restlessness and sacrifice. Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström 2013-03-04T10:39:48Z At one point, I became impatient with Reel 4 of “Walden,” torn between my compulsion as a viewer to look for some narrative sequence and yet another disconnected shot of someone walking through the snow. The Avant-Garde Filmmaker Who Tried to Tell the Truth 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z An art expert acquainted me with the term for her compulsion, “horror vacui,” or fear of the empty. The E-World meets Big Mommy. And Big Mommy has the last word. 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Nothing prods the making of art like ambivalence, and Chatwin was lucky to have his roaming impulse countervailed by a strong “compulsion to return.” The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z Then, while pretending that he was under the amulet’s compulsion, he shilled for Sabra hummus and Rold Gold pretzels. The Colbert Rapport 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Sandler’s entire performing career is that of a person who can’t resist his compulsions, and can barely be bothered to disguise them. The soul-sucking emptiness of “Pixels”: Donkey Kong is the least of humanity’s worries in Adam Sandler’s latest desperate quest 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z This compulsion leads her to steal a knish for a hungry child soon after she lands in Lower Manhattan. Books of The Times: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ a Novel by Helene Wecker 2013-05-06T19:57:43Z Living constitutionalists will look to evolving societal norms and the compulsion of precedent, including Lawrence v. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z Not every user of intoxicating substances will qualify – only those struggling with control, compulsion and withdrawal when not using. Mental illness: is there really a global epidemic? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z This childhood helps to make sense of his apparent compulsion to break rules, defy moral codes and, as it were, profane the host. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z Shaw approaches found objects with the seemingly pathological compulsion of a hoarder. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Director Mora Stephens has constructed a moral drama paced like a thriller as a rising politician expertly played by Patrick Wilson contends with a sexual compulsion that threatens his marriage and his career. No second-guessing with the films or winners this year 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z And if one thing stands out in his music, it is the absence of “human pathos and emotional compulsion,” said the cellist Arne Deforce in an interview. With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z It's not the scale of the experience – losing a million or being down to your last 75 cents – so much as that compulsion. A change in Luck 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z “Nip/Tuck” follows two plastic surgeons dealing with their clients’ obsessive vanity and their own compulsions; it was a critical hit in the materialistic mid-Bush years. What to stream on Netflix during the long weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Mars created it to explore her compulsion to be funny, both on stage and off, and gradually realised that humour was, for her, an avoidance of responsibility, a fear of appearing earnest. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z A playful formalist who’s frequently accused of making the same film over and over, he once again uses repetition compulsion here as both the subject and form of his movie. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Return Visit for a Director Fond of Repetition 2012-05-23T18:10:16Z He tells her it means nothing, that he loves only her but he has a compulsion to chase other women. Reader, She Didn’t Marry Him. Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham’ Reimagines Hillary. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Tichy certainly has much in common with Mr. Richter: a background in Socialist Realism, a compulsion to archive and a determination to thwart photography’s material limits. 2010-02-11T23:58:00Z Tell us what the impetus for exploring compulsion was. Author Sharon Begley on why we “Can’t. Just. Stop.” being compulsive 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Creative types produce their work out of an innate compulsion. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z In person, Kartheiser has none of Campbell's oiliness, but a good deal of his complex compulsion. Mad man 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z This was a black figure something like an orthodox cross into which he could pour his yearning and compulsion directly. From Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Faces at Full Intensity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The collecting compulsion was a pre-existing condition when Mr. Ollie met his future wife in 2003 at the National Black Fine Art Show. Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The list of conditions includes anger, anxiety, binge eating, depression, anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, panic, phobias, self-esteem, stress and worry. GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems 2013-01-31T17:42:10Z Mr. Fassbender’s disturbingly intense interpretation of the role soon makes clear that Brandon’s obsession is a compulsion rather than a source of enjoyment. Film: At Venice Film Festival, Love, Sex and Bickering 2011-09-06T11:55:32Z From the beginning, competing impulses powered “Unsolved Mysteries”: a crusading compulsion to seek for justice and a market-driven need to entertain. ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns, Because 2020 Isn’t Scary Enough 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The songs on that album were already exploring the tarnished innocence and dangerous compulsions that she would return to on “Born To Die.” Lana Del Rey Still Stirs Things Up With ‘Ultraviolence’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It annihilates the conventional set of literary genres and organically makes up new ones, which form a kind of map of human fictional compulsions. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z One of the biggest questions — whether her compulsions were inextricable from her creativity — remains ambiguous in the film. Cannes 2015: Amy Winehouse documentary screening gets warm reception 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Grosz comes to think that Francesca’s compulsion to tell and deny is actually, in its own way, an act of communication. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man’s total compulsion to evaluate himself justly. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z “I applaud the compulsion of someone to buy such an iconic and important work.” Basquiat Painting Is Sold for $110.5 Million at Auction 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The Nature tradition is a compulsion to explain science seriously and clearly, in a societal context, without too many distracting frills. Creation: The Origin of Life; The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford – review 2013-04-06T14:00:01Z The absence of gnawing compulsions, recurring themes, maestro flourishes and other distinguishing marks makes him difficult to place. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z His war book was in this sense a command performance, executed under compulsion by a reluctant but dutiful son. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Restrained but never tentative, remote yet enormously affecting, the movie’s evocation of artistic compulsion is accomplished with confidence and verve. Review: ‘Eden,’ a D.J.’s Passion for Electronic Music, by Mia Hansen-Love 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I’ve always been a perfectionist, focused on very little things, but the medicine helps relax those compulsions. Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In any case, the compulsion to document what ordinary Iraqis were experiencing under U.S. military occupation would allow him no other course of action. Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z That they limit the target to Darwinian compulsion, to ordinary, and yes, at times, unthinking human desire. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z Hays is visited by a vision from the past that asks him: “Did you confuse reacting with feeling? Did you mistake compulsion for freedom?” Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z You talk about the fact that compulsion and compulsive behaviors are very prevalent but you flip it. Author Sharon Begley on why we “Can’t. Just. Stop.” being compulsive 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Don Draper reflects the American compulsion to sidestep the hard work of living a flawed but authentic life for the empty illusion of perfection, as shiny and skin-deep as an advertisement that promises the impossible. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z “Of course I was riddled with weird anxiety and compulsions,” she said. Scarlett Johansson Made Broadway Look Easy 2010-05-14T03:24:00Z Yet this is not only our tragedy, I believe it’s also our heroism, our human dignity, our slice of freedom before the compulsion of fate. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z When Garza — at last humbled, exhausted by years of compulsion and spiritual disease — finally makes moves to get it together, the road isn’t easy. A Recovering Sex and Porn Addict Tells All 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z There seems to be a compulsion for certain men of a post-war generation to write about fighting almost as a literary substitute for active service. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-11-25T00:05:29Z The show in question is TLC’s “Hoarding: Buried Alive,” a somewhat lurid look at that compulsion. Snowed In? Here's What to Watch; Read; or Listen To. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But unfortunately, Ari’s need for positive female relationships is matched by her lifelong compulsion to destroy them. A mother’s fury: ‘After Birth,’ a novel by Elisa Albert 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He is in the grip of a compulsion, which distracts him from a batsqueak of terror that he doesn't know what or who he is. Film review: I Love You, Phillip Morris 2010-03-18T22:00:00Z Together we supported each other’s passions and compulsions, living in the moment with little regard for social norms or the future. Honey, I Swept the Floor! 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z By citing and showing the Voyager’s interstellar mission, Thompson puts the compulsions of a few little Texans into macroscopic long shot — from outer space to cyberspace. Review: Men, Women & Children Shows How Sexting Is Ruining America 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z There was a real compulsion to try to document what was unfolding. HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Don’t Seem Worried. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Both are in the painful position of having aptitude but not genius: “I had nothing, really, to say — only the compulsion to say something and get paid for it,” Charlotte admits. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z They don’t operate well under structure and they like to live freely, and I still think that compulsion exists very much among musicians, at least the ones I know. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z You could see Richmond's compulsion leading to some sort of tragic accident, misunderstanding, or sudden paroxysm of despair. "The Killing" ends without ending 2011-06-20T02:20:00Z He seems distracted by the compulsion to make beautiful images and announce large and complicated feelings. Movie Review: ‘Twice Born’ Stars Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch 2013-12-05T22:27:14Z For this 007, spying is no game; it’s a job that has become a compulsion. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z Those objects begin as vessels of meaning and tokens of taste, but their acquisition becomes a kind of compulsion, emptied of its original passion. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z After months of praying and doing things like writing my grocery lists with my sponsor, I stopped having the compulsion to binge and purge every night. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z I was a preteen when compulsions snuck into my life. Clenching and counting: how I get through the holidays with OCD 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “It just changes you. It changed my need and compulsion to try to fix things. It changed my desire to make things better. My desire to fill in the silence with noise.” What it felt like to lose time — and all the other things coronavirus took away The premise, about a married woman in the grips of extramarital sexual compulsion, squarely fit within the parameters of the dark crime stories I most like to read. Review | The publisher of ‘Adèle’ asked me to endorse the book. I could not. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z You could see Richmond’s compulsion leading to some sort of tragic accident, misunderstanding or sudden paroxysm of despair. “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z HG Wells, who saw a certain "cloacal obsession" in Irish wit, would have easily identified in these shores a certain phallocentric compulsion that accentuates ethnic and cultural differences. Come Fly With Me is tasteless comedy 2010-12-28T10:00:02Z Kuklinski emerges as a compulsive murderer who has found a way to get paid for his compulsion. The Iceman – review 2012-08-30T14:22:32Z Matt Wolf’s film, w hich plays Monday on PBS’s “Independent Lens,” is about Stokes’ paranoid but visionary compulsion to create a mammoth VHS archive of history as depicted, filtered and distorted by media. New this week: Neil Young, ‘Miss Juneteenth,’ Padma Lakshmi 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Writing has become a sort of compulsion — a craft that brings him not only joy, but calm. Harry Potter Brought Him to Broadway. Now His Work is Everywhere. 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z But this compulsion to learn can be superfluous, he says. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The aspiring writer soon discovered that the absurd destructiveness of his mental compulsion was matched only by the absurd elaborateness of his retrospective justification for it. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” essentially repackages one of the comedian’s sold-out stand-up sets at Madison Square Garden, so there’s an understandable compulsion to want to dislike the movie. ‘Kevin Hart’: Comedian’s fast-paced, funny explanations 2013-07-03T00:31:06Z That no film-maker seems to have the slightest compulsion to do Hemingway the same favour seems very telling to me. A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Sometimes this made me think about my desire for narrative and the compulsion to assemble disconnected sensory input into a coherent whole. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z For others, it’s about curiosity and the compulsion to keep learning. Clearing the Stage for a Big Graduation Number at City Ballet 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z I think this compulsion to confess is a driver for him. This Is What 'The Jinx' Creators Think of Robert Durst 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Yet somehow, something comes through all the multitracking: a yearning, a compulsion to explore, a vulnerable heart within. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z She's glad, though, that she hasn't had to choose between work and parenting, because acting is a kind of compulsion for her. Helen McCrory: 'Attack yourself ? don't get lazy' 2010-06-01T21:00:00Z After a while, though, the compulsion to identify everything and everyone — Jimmy Stewart! Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z “I never thought I would be a filmmaker. It’s pure compulsion. I have no option.” Paul Cox, Independent Filmmaker Who Explored Postmodern Life, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The show presents the tape as helping the web become more mainstream by appealing to base human compulsions — an on-ramp to what would lie ahead. Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Insecurities, physical flaws, neuroses, compulsions, confessions, iffy boyfriends, drunken encounters and thoughts of vengeance fill her songs. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z But it’s a compulsion, a commitment, and a chance, perhaps, to parent the child she was, as well as the ones she has. Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z No other company has managed to mix such a finely balanced cocktail of desire, in which the crude flavour of compulsion is disguised by a deliciously minimalist aesthetic. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z The same basic thing they saw in older heroes like Gauguin and van Gogh: a willingness, amounting to a compulsion, to use art as a vehicle of emotion in extremis. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Writing, he said, was a “compulsion” and “not a conscious process.” Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Inserting herself into the Manson story seems to be something of a compulsion for Statman. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z However, there are other potential health drawbacks to helmet compulsion. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Green himself chairs Headway, a charity that does fantastic work with people who have suffered brain injuries but has branched out, controversially, as a vocal advocate of helmet compulsion. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z One character is lobotomized to cure his compulsion to pinch women’s derrières. Review: In ‘The Forbidden Room,’ a Submarine Full of Dark Imagery 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Only to other men There can be few things more perplexing than the ongoing compulsion to unmask the Stig from Top Gear . Wendy Lewis is not the forces' favourite, but the veterans went too far 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z They get away with it — until they don’t, of course, which is when things start to get interesting in this dark, disturbing exploration of family, marriage and murderous compulsions. The 10 books to read in 2019 based on what you loved in 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Contemplating this massive piece of environmental art, they wonder at the human compulsion for "weaving traces on the land like so many scars". Readers recommend: songs about works of art – results 2013-02-01T09:56:00Z According to Kempf, symptoms of the panic included a fearfulness that could lead to catatonia, a “compulsion to seek or submit to assault,” and delusional perceptions of being poisoned or entranced. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z It doesn’t have anything to do with me having anything worthwhile to say — it’s a compulsion. David Sedaris on his new book, 'Theft by Finding' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z "You're going to hear about the agony and the sweat and the difficulty and the compulsion," Griffith said. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z As Georges’s compulsion to film his exploits grows, so does his cunning, the camera an excuse to fully indulge his psychosis. ‘Deerskin’ Review: Swayed by Suede 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In “Iguana,” Mr. Owen — who adroitly plumbed the depths of sexual compulsion in the film “Closer” — is an unusually virile, almost gangsterish Shannon, with little of the expected touch of the poet. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z This book allows the reader an intimate glimpse of the compulsion which drove the explorer, the movement in the minds of his contemporaries and the times that shaped him. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z They describe the jungle forays and arctic crossings as compulsions. Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z With no pretense to objectivity, Vertov strove to capture life in all its sensory particulars, a compulsion that remains central in debates about documentary form and technique. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z But in the early time, singing was like a compulsion. Table for Three: Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne Discuss Creating Hits, On and Off Broadway 2014-03-14T23:21:20Z Clover Moore, the mayor of Sydney, says she would also love to create a bike-share system there but feels unable to, given the long-standing helmet compulsion law. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Kind, who is honored with a tribute exhibition organized by the critic Edward M. Goméz, certainly did not associate compulsion with lack of aesthetic control. Outsider Art of the Moment: 66 Exhibitors, 7 Countries, 1 Fair 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The promise of the compulsion to write was signalling to me. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z That little germ of an insight made me look at other compulsions. Author Sharon Begley on why we “Can’t. Just. Stop.” being compulsive 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The compulsion to fly was going to wane. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z Poets grapple with the urgency to document violence but also chafe at the compulsion. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Among the legacies of Orientalism observed by Said was a compulsion to draw invidious distinctions. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It was just me and my compulsion, which I had kept hidden from nearly everyone. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z His fate may be perpetual imprisonment in his compulsions: at the end of the film he’s where he began. Shame: Michael Fassbender's Naked Launch 2011-12-01T09:55:12Z Like a circle, a federal judge said of Billy McFarland’s compulsion to lie, there’s no end. Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z His uncommon grace as a critic came from a compulsion to look for beauty and truth in the overlooked and the marginalized. What Jonathan Gold Meant for Food Writing 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The book recounts Maynard’s lifelong quest to overcome a compulsion to please others, first as an overachieving daughter and later as a wife, a mother, and a divorcée struggling to support her children. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “What is emerging to me in that season ahead is the nature of community — the necessity, the compulsion, that we have as a species to gather,” Nicola said. New York Theater Workshop Plans a Summer Reopening 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z As the titular Uncle, the fresh-faced Matthew Cottle seems some way shy of his professed 47 years, yet this only compounds the tragedy of Vanya's compulsion to wish his life away. Dear Uncle - review 2011-07-14T16:14:28Z Downs identifies a litany of compulsions as adult manifestations of "velvet rage". Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z Sasha, the young woman with whom “A Visit From the Goon Squad” begins, has a compulsion to steal, and the array of objects she has filched looks “like the work of a miniaturist beaver.” Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z Clean and sober, my new compulsion was emailing my first lover's wife. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Is it a narcissistic compulsion to demonstrate how much more thoughtful and sensitive you are than the ignorant clod who offended you? Django Unchained, Djack Whitehall and Djames Delingpole 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z The researchers concluded that their overindulgence was based purely on compulsion and not the candy’s intensified deliciousness. Where does gluttony come from? 2012-09-21T20:33:00Z The short answer, for me, is that I have developed a compulsion to drunk-dial Agatha Christie several times a week. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z There is little in the way of conventional plot here, but its absence does nothing to diminish the narrative compulsion of this novel. Revisiting Carol Shields and the Everywoman 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Nichols’ 2011 breakthrough hit, “Take Shelter,” concerns a family man whose apocalyptic visions drive his compulsion to prepare for an imagined peril at any self-destructive cost. ‘Mud’: Roiling in a river of obsession 2013-04-25T00:52:12Z A secret, a compulsion, a private tragedy, and then again both a release and an ecstasy — alcohol is a catalyst for something difficult to categorize. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Writers and the Bottle 2013-12-27T20:11:44Z Given his compulsion for reinvention — the spark behind his famous boast that he’d “changed music five or six times” — his death at 65 also opened the door to endless rounds of conjecture. What Would Miles Davis Do? Robert Glasper Has an Idea 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s post-digital, which means it rejects the compulsion to push form-making to its absolute limits that overtook architecture at the turn of the century. Boring architecture? Yes, please 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In other words, if I’m not onstage I don’t feel this compulsion to go out and talk about the thing that happened yesterday that Trump did. David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z But asked if he felt any compulsion to begin Volume II, Mr. Young was succinct: “I don’t.” In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “Indeed, there is no compulsion in lota,” I replied solemnly. Secrets of the Muslim bathroom 2012-07-10T01:00:00Z And all the time, McDonagh's disorders lead him into increasingly sinister compulsions and hallucinations, and the rising floodtide of addiction and corruption threatens to engulf him utterly. Film review: Bad Lieutenant 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z But in keeping with my laid-back approach to seeing the city, which beckoned more by circumstance than by compulsion, my friend and I opted to take it easy. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z It's clear by now that Channel 4 has an obsessive compulsion to produce portrayals of disability and neurological disorders. TV highlights 13/02/2013 2013-02-13T07:00:03Z It does, however, demonstrate his compulsion for poor judgment and bad choices. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III: Boys Behaving Badly 2013-02-07T13:07:52Z Still, it’s exciting how these dance sequences are treated like any other scene, and disappointing when the compulsion to justify them takes hold. ‘Aviva’ Review: Just the Two of Us (and Our Other Selves) 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z More than any compulsion of economics, Hobsbawm argues, revolution and war were the decisive factors in the emancipation of the French and parts of the European peasantry. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Even the King cannot compete with this family’s compulsion to celebrate Christmas with jams from the mother country. Day 22: A Very Bollywood Christmas 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Abigail Davies, 28, who took DNP more than a decade ago, recalls the compulsion to take extreme risks with her health. ‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z A lot of times when we see something like this, there's this compulsion to hope for a just resolution. With "Silver Dollar Road," Raoul Peck travels to the heart of Black land loss through one family 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z We are hardwired with the compulsion to compete for belonging and status in our social groups, and sometimes it goes too far. 9 Ways You Can Help Your Kids Cope With Being Bullied 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z We couldn’t have been more careful, yet I felt a strong compulsion to find a sink and soap and wash my hands. Anxious? Yes. But Not About My Son’s Wedding. 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z We are drawn to shiny things in the same wild way our ancestors were overcome by a compulsion to forage for honey. What Is Glitter? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Fabric isn’t just something to be rendered; it seems essential to some inner compulsion in the artist’s reimagining of classical biblical scenes. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death Mr. Lindsey’s productivity was a source of as much admiration as curiosity in the music press, and he was often asked to explain his compulsion to create so much music so quickly. 2010-01-15T06:03:00Z All are outpourings from Mr. Creed’s psyche, a delicate but highly tuned instrument beset by odd compulsions and Freudian obsessions. Obsessions and Compulsions at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The “like” button, quantifying approval and igniting a compulsion to check social media, is a similar example. Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z What Artaud, with a kind of condescending credulity, perceived as the brothers “brimming with confidence and manifestly ready to do battle with the rest of the world” was really a manic compulsion. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z For his part, Foster captures homicidal compulsion mixed with small moments of pause. Straight to DVD: "Tenderness" and "Peacock" 2010-04-17T17:17:00Z Even prior to this season, the chaos and killings that drive "You" have all been rooted in Joe's violent compulsion toward monogamy. On "You," polyamory done right could have saved a doomed marriage 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z A compulsion to unravel — to demystify — drives her eviscerating portrait of Hollywood. Review | Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z More than a portrait of an individual athlete, the film develops into a mildly terrifying portrait of compulsion. ‘Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off’ Review: Shred Until Shredded 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Appropriately, the final tenant we hear from is a retired teacher for whom “travel became a compulsion, a subtle liberation.” As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s the latest chapter in an ongoing memoir of his irresistible compulsions. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z And there is honor in his compulsion to box. Movies the Oscars Will Overlook, but Shouldn’t 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He joked about the shame of it all, the compulsion. Perspective | Pretending to be bad boys let them get away with being bad men 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Self isn't needy so much as insatiable, a walking or staggering collection of addictions and compulsions. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z But I guess there’s a compulsion to create or keep on moving. Cheers to the Washington bar czar 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Alexia is a strip-club dancer in the South of France whose hobby — her compulsion, her kink, her vocation — is murder. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z I used to view life-altering compulsions as foreign and almost frightening. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Her weird compulsion to salute herself in mirrors like some sort of impossibly twee knitted soldier. Olympus Has Fallen – but no one could fall for Gerard Butler in this 2013-01-31T13:10:32Z In an effort to understand the cause of our retail compulsions, and tackle the best reasons to back away from the cash register, we turned to a few informed experts. 5 Ways to Stop Shopping Right Now 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z These disparate feminine personae, and Brandy’s dark fears and compulsions, bring us into a fascinating realm of female sexual identity — and a motif often woven into the contemporary plays WET tackles. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z The book describes his physical courage, compulsion to wander and frequent instances of getting lost. The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z If you’re concerned that your Internet use is becoming a compulsion, you’re probably right: New research suggests that our uncontrollable desire to click may be deeply rooted in human evolution. Internet addiction is just the next evolutionary step 2013-05-31T15:20:00Z In non-pandemic times, loitering in the produce section is equal parts compulsion and pleasure for me. A love letter to all the produce I haven’t picked 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Often when a central couple in a show break up, there’s a compulsion among viewers to presume that the writers will find a way to bring them back together. Review: HBO’s “Insecure” offers a more confident second season 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z But when it was over, I gave in to another sort of compulsion, which is, I’m afraid, quintessentially American. We are all d**k-measurers now: The Oscars and awards-season devalue and pervert art 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z His compulsion became useful to a larger audience in the 1990s, when Mr. Giller joined early internet message boards dedicated to Mr. Letterman. David Letterman’s Unlikely Archivist 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z I still remember showing him the first draft of this essay, when I described this compulsion as “a place as familiar to me as my childhood home”. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z This traumatic experience is obviously meant to inform Oliver’s precocious sexual compulsion. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z “It’s a passion and a compulsion — he has to create all the time,” Langille said by phone. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In Banks’s songs, love is a desperate compulsion, a brutal addiction, a chance at fleeting comfort that’s likely to be followed by drawn-out psychological warfare. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z I couldn’t tell if this was a compulsion or for show. In Morocco, 44 hours of lingering in a small village leaves a big impression 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z I prefer to use the term “sexual compulsion” rather than “addiction”, because unlike many other things to which one can become addicted, sex is essentially a healthy activity. I love ogling women and looking at porn. Am I addicted? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z And Robert’s compulsion to collect commandeered every nook and cranny of our home. 2010-01-15T21:13:00Z His songs ponder passion, mortality, compulsion and sin. Review: Hozier at Beacon Theater With Somber Songs of Love and Other Futilities 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z After declaring that the unconscious labors “under a moral compulsion to educate us,” he inserts a parenthetical anticipating a dubious reader. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z But they might be an early example of a human compulsion we don’t seem willing to outgrow. Review | Gold, jade, macaw feathers, turquoise: Ancient American beauty at the Met 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Korede’s one confidant is a comatose patient to whom she confesses everything — her consuming crush on a doctor at the hospital, and the truth of her sister’s compulsion. Helping Out Family Is Taken to Extremes in ‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z We tend to think of heretics as contrarians, individuals with a compulsion to flout conventional wisdom. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z This cadre admired his obsession with seemingly small ideas — like starting so many compositions in A minor — and recognized Connors’s fabled compulsion to make anything, always. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Partly that’s due to the straightforward virtuosity of his playing, and partly to his compulsion to transcend and blend styles. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “All Is Lost” is about a lot of things—solitude, hope, invention—but at its heart, it’s a parable about the human compulsion to try. We are all d**k-measurers now: The Oscars and awards-season devalue and pervert art 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In “Nail Biter,” this unconscious imagery, exposed and disguised, carries the anxiety of compulsion. Review: The Dreamy Precision of an Everyday Surrealist 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Other bad traits include a hurried attitude and a mild compulsion to arrange magazines at right angles on my coffee table. Modern Love: When Dating Takes More Than the Click of a Mouse 2012-10-04T22:29:41Z He’s a sensitive soul, at times bitterly cynical, at times charmingly naïve, always courteous, in the grip of a desperate compulsion to own nothing at all. Lee Child Reviews a Debut Novel That’s Vintage Texas Noir 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z It's easy to get lost in Smith's rising stream-of-consciousness, but the real object is hearing, beneath it all, a human compulsion to express boxed in by mutable, imperfect voices. Review: In On the Boards solo show, Charles Smith explores levels of misunderstanding 2011-03-27T20:17:05Z When he told NPR he felt a compulsion and could not control himself, he was referring to comedy. Louis CK: laughter ends as years of allegations dog comedy superstar 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Trained as a painter, he turned to sculpture from an inner compulsion, using the medium to explore the deeper reaches of his psyche, but keeping the results largely hidden from public view. Master of surprises 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Their cooking hands served as “the turning motors for our minds,” and what Thielen inherits from them is a “compulsion” no matter how arduous the tasks involved. Chef Amy Thielen explains her love for rural and urban, highflung and lowdown in 'Give A Girl A Knife' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z I’m certainly not going to advise you against pursuing your heart’s desire – to even have such a compulsion puts you in a small minority and makes you lucky indeed. I want to be an actor, but am afraid to follow my dream | Mariella Frostrup 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z As a picaresque goes, it is an intimate one, the plot created out of Tiller’s compulsion to “latch on” — a truth about Tiller that Pong reveals to him, and that Val exploits. Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Granted, there's the natural compulsion to find something positive in a project that should have been a slam dunk for Bell, an actor most people deeply enjoy. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z When they deviate from the plot he's imagined, his compulsion grows deadly. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Though its commitment to popular, unpretentious Shakespeare is unassailable, you wonder about the compulsion to introduce a song-and-dance routine at every opportunity. Hamlet ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:04Z Her storytellers may be tapped out, but the compulsion to turn chaos into narrative order will never die. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Writing was an intensely physical act for him that often made him feel like dying; the agonizing labor over his sentences was the most overwhelming compulsion he knew. Charles Bowden: Tom Zoellner and Luis Urrea pay tribute 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z “I don’t practice painting or drawing as an art, in the sense of artifice, of making an imitation of something. It’s something I do from an inner compulsion, that has to come out.” Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93 2014-04-17T03:18:03Z She admits that she has struggled with anxieties and compulsions over the years. Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z He shows how an almost fanatical compulsion for secrecy among the Soviet Union’s governing elite was part of what made the reactor meltdown at Chernobyl not just cataclysmic but so likely in the first place. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Why do authors limit themselves to somber dialogue that they consider period-appropriate, a compulsion as specious as associating France with French fries jokes? Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z The songs seem an act of compulsion on Roberts's part as much as anything. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z His huge frame housed an inexhaustible supply of stamina – for work, sex and political arguments ignited by tequila – and a compulsion to make things up. Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z One detects a bitter compulsion to confront Western readers with the devastation of East Germany, in case those readers had luxuriously forgotten or ignored it. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Since closing the store, Mr. Moss has channeled his compulsion to “put this next to that” into rearranging the furniture here before Mr. Getchell wakes up. The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z I did laugh while reading Kinsella's last Shopaholic novel, but Bloomwood reminded me uncomfortably of a friend whose compulsion to shop, which used to be cute, is now destroying her marriage. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z Then, just a few pages later, she’s plaintively acknowledging the compulsion to move on too quickly from trauma. Review | Phoebe Robinson’s new essay collection is a sharp, sweet-salty pleasure 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z And while their destinies fatefully converge on the twin towers in a way that is almost novelistic, the book's suspense and momentum do not reduce the idea of narrative to page-turning compulsion. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z But I’d been talking so knowledgeably about “Lolita” to the press that I was overcome with a kind of sheepish compulsion to read it again, after the fact. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Writing about the scary side of screen time taught me that, uncanny as it may be, the world of ones and zeros doesn’t birth monsters; the human compulsions we bring to it do. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s “a mysterious thing that I want,” and it’s also an evolutionary mechanism — “A chromosomal raid/built by what we got built for” — that’s as much a compulsion as a joy. The Playlist: Feist Ponders ‘Pleasure,’ and Frank Ocean Delivers Another Surprise 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Actually, this is the story of a man with two compulsions. 11 ways to think about the Anthony Weiner-Huma Abedin split 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Instead what unfolds is a tug of war between his compulsion to perform and his need to retreat. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z My response to the letter was part of a behavioural pattern: an obsessive compulsion to worry about the most trifling of day‑to‑day challenges. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Leaping forward nine years, we find Chip a stalwart of his local A.A. and apparently in control of his colonic compulsions. ‘Butt Boy’ Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The problem is that the compulsion to dress as a woman has never gone away. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parent ponders assault allegation 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. Literary lists: Proof of our existence 2013-02-15T19:30:01Z I understand a comedian has a contrary compulsion to use words that you have been asked not to – both in this specific context and words that society deems taboo. Why was Reginald D Hunter ever booked for the PFA awards dinner? 2013-04-30T17:26:49Z Determined to produce an heir, her domineering in-laws shuttle her off to therapy to uproot the compulsion. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The main pitfall in some of his new music, including the album’s title track, is a tendency to crowd too many ideas into the frame, sifting through them as if by compulsion. Music Review: Danilo Pérez Celebrates Panama at Jazz Standard 2014-02-07T21:55:14Z Then there is another byproduct of reality-TV culture: the compulsion, enabled by social media, to broadcast everything about yourself. TV or reality? Lines blur after death of show star 2013-04-03T10:31:05Z When I was five and beginning piano lessons, I remember being inspired by my father's collection of printed music, and feeling a compulsion to put notes to paper myself. Marc-Andr? Hamelin: Performer or composer? 2010-08-26T21:44:00Z For a recovering alcoholic and addict, Jay is bafflingly unable to turn that same lens on his emotional life or question the relationships between romantic passion, obsession and compulsion. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Bjurman has suave conversational skills, a bureaucratic authoritativeness and the compulsion to manacle and torture the young women in his care. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z Her compulsion leaves her furious, “a small angry itching thing” covered in scabs, with dried skin and blood wedged under her nails. Review | ‘Little Scratch’ drops readers into the reality of a distressed mind 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z With the recession still visible in our rearview mirrors, and political uncertainty all around, surely the audience understood and appreciated the compulsion to knock back a few. Thank you, Larry Wilmore: “The Nightly Show” goes out with a party — and a reminder to “not confuse cancellation with failure” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “We both didn’t feel a strong compulsion to make it legal,” Mr. Caplan said. Before ‘Elvis,’ Improv Students Exchange Ad-Libbed Vows 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z What motivates someone, other than obsessive compulsion, to want to replay a game with the exact same missions, locale and stranded survivors that Greene faced in last year's game is beyond me. Game On: 'Dark Souls' blends skirmishes, visuals 2011-10-27T19:23:04Z Has Rosen’s research allowed him to escape the clutches of digital compulsion? Breaking up with your smartphone is really, really hard. Just ask these people. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “My interest grew into a compulsion even though the notion of someone wandering the unpicturesque streets of Manchester and Salford with a camera seemed quite crazy to most people then.” Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Everyone who knows the truth about Ree's dad has a great interest in keeping quiet about it, combined with a sentimental, family-based compulsion to help this one person who must be kept in the dark. Film review: Winter's Bone 2010-09-16T21:42:00Z She had quarreled with her husband about his compulsion to head back up north to report on a story that the government wants kept quiet. ‘The Wind is Not a River’: epic war story in the Aleutians 2014-01-23T22:16:55Z The revisiting of the sudden trauma that Serpell experienced — what Freudian psychologists refer to as the “repetition compulsion” — inspired the arc of her second novel, “The Furrows,” out from Hogarth on Sept. 27. A Sibling Disappears, and the Mystery Repeats Itself 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z With almost no information available on the disorder and no proven treatments, hair pullers experienced a lifetime of struggle, both with their overwhelming compulsions and with the shame and alienation that accompanied those little-understood behaviors. I was a secret hair puller 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Alas, in her admirable commitment to nuance and a near compulsion to let her characters redeem themselves just when they’ve behaved most unforgivably, she usually resorts to long, roving, expository monologues. Theater Review: ‘Different Animals’ at Cherry Lane Studio 2013-05-15T20:20:54Z He would never be a truly content person, she knew this, because of that primal restlessness that thrummed in him, the compulsion to prove something to himself that he feared he never would. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z He writes that his compulsion never threatened his financial well-being, and that his wife and children never lacked for anything. 'Friday Night Lights' author hung up with dress-up 2013-03-26T16:38:08Z Show me an advice column about a disheveled co-worker and I’ll read it eagerly, with zero compulsion to apply its lessons to myself. Wisdom Dispensed With Slaps and Puns: A Sprightly History of Advice-Giving 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I think there must be a kind of compulsion about it. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z Yet the bowl is his calling and his compulsion. The Flea Circus 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Instead, it highlights our compulsion to interrogate our ghosts in search of meaning — and the inexorable way they slip our grasp. Riff: ?My So-Called Adulthood? 2011-08-07T04:15:28Z Mutt was entirely motivated by greed, a dim-witted spiv with a compulsion to gamble and develop ill-conceived get-rich-quick schemes. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z But the real genius of “Black Mirror” lies in its dissection of humanity — how our emotions, compulsions and fears inform our use of technology. ‘Black Mirror’ is the perfect show for our tech-obsessed world 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Given a collection with both major highs and glaring holes, the Wadsworth exudes a distinctive personality free of the compulsion to Hoover up everything in sight. Temple of delight 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z While she moves seamlessly from invention to what she terms, courtesy of Javier Marias, “literary thinking,” the constant is a deliberate and careful attention to language, a compulsion, Nunez says “to search.” Sigrid Nunez's flawless recipe for literary excellence: Throw in a parrot 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z So, add the death toll from America’s compulsion to buy and use firearms into the mix. The world is coming apart at the seams 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z He came to France with this desire, a compulsion to immerse himself in literature, and produced “a singular book, never before seen, deeply original, but at the same time ... also a compilation of existing books.” In search of an erased African: An acclaimed French novel probes a literary scandal 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z But, collectively, this countercultural impulse manifests itself most relevantly in an almost Freudian compulsion to lose. Column: What the Republicans forcing a government shutdown have in common with 1960s radicals 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z India's foreign minister S Jaishankar said earlier this year that Canada's response to Khalistan has been driven by "vote bank compulsion", a reference to the support Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party gets from Sikhs. How India-Canada ties descended into a public feud 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z She describes it as the sort of compulsion people have with their phones - picking it up without even thinking about it, and feeling jittery when it's not within reach. Teenage vaping: ‘I’ll have puffs as I’m falling asleep’ 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Mr Barclay said the key advantage was the power of compulsion. Lucy Letby: Inquiry given powers to compel witnesses to give evidence 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The sea has long inspired a human attraction, perhaps even a compulsion, to be as close to the edge as possible. In the face of sea level rise, can we reimagine California's vanishing coastline? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z I do this not just out of compulsion, but aspiration. Opinion: Wall Street predators destroyed Toys 'R' Us. Now they're coming for Simon & Schuster 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Losing the compulsion to read Twitter is probably good for my mental health, but it certainly isn't great news for the company. Elon Musk's absurd Twitter rebrand: Has the far right finally broken his brain? 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z She says she didn't think of going for a medical examination or reporting it to the police because she felt a compulsion to wash herself. MeToo charges against celebrities shake Taiwan showbiz 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z And, said Scott Bonn, a criminologist and researcher, “It’s not unusual for the wives and families of serial killers to be completely unaware about their darker compulsions.” In Long Island slayings, a wife nearby but apparently unknowing 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The vast majority of people who buy loot boxes in games don't end up with a compulsion like this. Loot boxes: Games companies agree to restrict access in UK 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z “They guys have a compulsion to kill, but they also can control it,” he said. New York suburb deals with latest notorious murder case 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z They were both disappointed with “And Just Like That...,” particularly its nostalgia-driven compulsion to revisit the past — evident in Aidan’s return this season. 'And Just Like That...' was a jolt for 'Sex and the City' fans. For Season 2, they have suggestions 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “He writes about people gripped by existential compulsion, who don’t know why they do the things they do.” For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Anyone who watched Head bat in the World Test Championship final will have seen his compulsion to attack the short ball. Stokes v Green, Boland v Bazball - key Ashes battles 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The importance of place and the compulsion to go back, despite ever-worsening odds, have Wong-Parodi and other scientists thinking about what resources are available when people do return. Looking for home in an overheating world: If emissions continue, will we all be migrants someday? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z It is a compulsion to pull your own hair out, or in Selt's case his eyebrows and eyelashes. Selt coming to terms with hair-pulling compulsion 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z People who love talking about diets and the surrounding culture really seem to love it or feel a compulsion to perform being good, disciplined people who watch their weight and blah blah blah. Smile! We’ll Remember This Forced Fun Forever 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z A better life, at least, than “pushed by compulsion into government holding tanks for a full decade” — that is, going to school. Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Often called a hidden addiction, problem gambling does not leave its mark on the body like other compulsion disorders, such as alcohol or drug abuse. Hooked on risk - gambling's grip on elite sport 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The line between tradition and compulsion gets fuzzy, and goalies in particular are known for it. Inside the preparations and superstitions fueling the Kraken’s playoff run 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z A manic energy is apparent, a compulsion to relate the character’s experience with the precision of a member of London’s Inns of Court. Review | Jodie Comer comes to Broadway and turns the heat up full blast 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z In this instance, we're using a drug to fight a human feeling, a compulsion to seek out heroin. Methadone Maintenance versus Synthetic Heaven: Inside the Historic Fight over Heroin Treatment 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The 21-year-old from Jaunpur district, in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, was headed for the country’s financial capital, saying he moved out of "compulsion", like hundreds of millions of others before him. India's migrant millions: Caught between jobless villages and city hazards 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z People who haven’t experienced the unbelievable compulsion to use drugs find it easy to accept the assumption that if we shift the resources we pour into enforcement into treatment, addiction will become manageable. Opinion | Why decriminalizing drugs is a bad idea 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Lord knows what compulsion possessed Newton D. Baird and Robert Greenwood of Talisman Press, in El Dorado County’s Georgetown, Calif., to create this freakish compendium in 1971. There is no 'Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf': a critic's requiem for all the forgotten books 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z But it’s also more directly about the compulsions and pains of making modest, hand-crafted art. ‘Showing Up’: Kelly Reichardt ‘fine with being a side B-er’ 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z As Lucca quickly discovers, X’s compulsion for fictitious identity arose from a practical need. Review | ‘Biography of X’ is a brilliant novel that remixes art and history 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z After spending his days listening to his patients unload about their toxic spouses, their compulsions and their dating troubles, he grows increasingly frustrated by their lack of action — or, as Paul calls it, “compassion fatigue.” Boundaries on 'Shrinking' are questionable, but the co-creator says there will be consequences 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Binge eating disorder is a compulsion in the other direction. Surge in eating disorders spurs state legislative action 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Lord Doherty imposed an interim compulsion order for him to remain there meantime. Grandmother was stabbed to death as she ate dinner in Aberdeen 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z “I don’t feel, as the director of the Idaho Department of Correction, the compulsion to ask my staff to do that,” Tewalt said. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Later, it says social apps “hijack a tween and teen compulsion — to connect — that can be even more powerful than hunger or greed.” Schools sue social media companies over youth mental health crisis 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Prevention is not compulsion, and, more important, large, publicly traded companies are not people. Opinion | Stock buybacks benefit corporations, not society 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Our future is foreshadowed by our past, and few human activities have shaped our history more than our near-irresistible compulsion to fight each other. History forecasts an inevitable major war 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z He remembers being deeply moved by the suffering of others and a strong compulsion to act. Cambridge University's Jason Arday becomes youngest black professor 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z And like people, institutions also have addictions and compulsions. The media's biggest addiction: Trump voters in diners 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Our compulsion to get as much travel content as possible can overshadow the actual traveling. Advice | The new rules of travel In that way, the league operates much like a private, exclusive club with an exorbitant cost of entry, three-fourths majority required for admission and no compulsion to explain why some are denied. NFL ownership rules, long a source of pride, may be limiting bidders 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Indeed, since Trump is incapable of nuanced thinking and has an incorrigible, nearly biological compulsion to fight, we should expect it. Column: How Mike Pence's flawed argument against a subpoena just might get him what he wants 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The compulsion to interpret quantum physics concepts as prescriptions for physical reality derives from the unfortunate way we traditionally teach physics. Quantum Entanglement Isn’t All That Spooky After All 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Will the chaos monkeys be on their best behavior, or will the compulsion to act out prove overwhelming? Must-see TV? You never know with State of the Union 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z David Lane, an evangelical organizer, used his regular email to pastors to ask, “Why did the red wave die on the vine?” and to criticize Trump’s “compulsion to keep the spotlight upon himself.” Christian leaders start to break from Trump — with an eye on DeSantis 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z “The Embrace” also evokes America’s compulsion to butcher King’s fight against white supremacy. Opinion | Boston’s ‘Embrace’ holds fast to the whitewashed view of MLK 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z As a part of his probation, he was also ordered to complete 52 sessions of Alcoholics Anonymous and sexual compulsion anonymous sessions. Comic Andy Dick arrested for public intoxication, failing to register as sex offender 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z When combined with the compulsion to acquire more possessions, the pile grows and — yes — the walls start closing in. Advice | Ask Amy: My husband’s hoarding is becoming a dealbreaker 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Aronofsky and Hunter leave little to the imagination, emphasizing at every graphic turn that, for Charlie, food isn’t the stuff of life-giving nourishment, but a vector for compulsion and self-annihilation. Review | ‘The Whale’: Brendan Fraser is great, the movie not so much 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z And then something extra — something I struggle to get a handle on because I can never answer a nagging question: What is the compulsion behind it? Perspective | Blurring the line between danger and bliss With the Octavia Butler boom currently underway, my compulsion to share her work as widely as possible is even more urgent today. An Octavia Butler story 10 years in the making — and even more relevant now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z His voice and comportment change while his alcoholism and compulsion worsen. What Evan Peters learned after 10 months in Jeffrey Dahmer's head 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Here she captures a sense of fear and confusion about her unspeakable compulsion, while also grappling with a sense of alienation from herself and the world. Review: The tender hunger of young love in 'Bones and All' 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z He is also required to pay restitution to the victim and was ordered to complete 52 Alcoholics Anonymous sessions, 52 sexual compulsion anonymous sessions, and 12 counseling sessions, Risling wrote in an emailed statement. Andy Dick sentenced to 90 days in jail in groping case, must register as sex offender 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z That’s especially so when those perils are combined with their curious compulsion, shared by many seabirds, to return each spring to the exact spot they left the year before. Climate reshapes life for tenacious gannets on Quebec isle 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z |
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