Sentences with phrase «more compulsion»

The biology of addiction is not entirely understood, but it seems that the faster a drug's effects build and diminish, the more compulsion it creates.

Now there is no more pretense, no more hypocrisy or self - violence, no more compulsion to be something other, better and more ideal than what one is.

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Entire books have explained how an obsessive compulsion to read text messages and check your Twitter status have created zombies who can't really participate in discussions and can't look you in the eye for more than a second.

I'm a product guy, driven more by the need to build it than the compulsion to pitch it.

When we function in false self, it becomes compulsion, striving, self sufficiency and idolatry — i think the process of deconstructing is more in essence of coming back to our first love in HIM - before it got all complicated....

They are more like religious believers under compulsion in a society with an established church than like believers simply denied the freedom to exercise their religion.

It is not unusual therefore to find pastoral care «overlooking what was mildly wrong,» in order to take seriously what matters more urgently.7 Effective pastoral care must be free to exercise a kind of tolerance for vice, allowing a certain compulsion to continue while deliberately reducing another more dangerous one.8

Would not pastors then be justified in allowing the lesser problem to increase if, in doing so, they are able to work significantly on the more severe compulsion that conceivably could cause something worse?

It is for this reason that sometimes a smaller compulsion may be temporarily disregarded in order that the greater and more dangerous compulsion can be pastorally treated.

But an unmistakable difference separates the writings of male and female authors: far more women than men identify their food habits as «compulsions» and testify to the depression, loneliness and shame that accompany obesity.

Through loyalty to what is true and right, without regard to individual and group wants or calculated advantages, release is gained from both external compulsion and the more insidious tyranny of desire.

The ability of a relatively few already powerful people or organizations to exert still further pervasive influence introduces the possibility of tyranny and misuse of power in some respects even more devastating than that accomplished by physical compulsion.

The therapist accepts the troubled neighbor in the midst of neurotic guilt feelings and compulsions, not on the narrow assumption that the neighbor is just privately acceptable by the therapist as a friendly human being, but on the much more basic assumption that every person, as human being, is accepted by being itself.

«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?

Whether the laity in prevailingly liberal churches can be shown to have more sensitive consciences than others and a greater sense of compulsion in serving their fellow men, I do not know.

Were we able through faith in Jesus» revelation to come to a more accepting posture toward our own shameful side, we would likewise be delivered of the compulsion to project it out onto others.

As the tentacles of his compulsion close tighter around him, he struggles all the harder to «use a little more willpower» and to solve the problem himself.

Afflicted with a desperate compulsion for competitive advantage, they rack up majors, minors, certificates, credentials, and internships to keep them in the running for what they feel to be an ever more elusive success.

In other words, nurturant fathering helps relieve sons of the compulsion to prove themselves adequately masculine by engaging in truculent and misogynist activities, and so frees them to use their energies for acquiring more adaptive and less rigidly gender - stereotyped relational and work skills.

In Emergency Exit (Harper & Row, 1968) he describes his compulsion to leave the Communist Party when it became clear to him that the party was more interested in institutional and ideological aggrandizement than in alleviating the suffering of the oppressed.

More radical bioethicists and mental - health professionals even suggest that patients suffering from BIID (body - integrity identity disorder), a terrible compulsion to become an amputee, should be treated by having healthy limbs removed, just as transsexuals today receive surgical sexual reassignment.

Many parents go along with their teen's compulsions so that their teen will not feel distressed, but it is important to realize that in the long run, this does much more harm than good.

A recent trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital suggests that the anticonvulsant Topamax, currently used to treat everything from migraines to obesity, may offer a more effective means of controlling the compulsion.

Cunningham has come up with a formula based on the ratio of autoantibodies to the two dopamine receptors; depending on the balance between the two, she can predict a variety of symptoms, from ADD to compulsions to obsession to irritability and more.

Relapses are the reason most treatment programs fail, he says, because a single, brief exposure to a disavowed drug ignites a compulsion in addicts more powerful than that engendered by continual use.

Previous research has suggested that in patients who suffer from both disorders, OCD might show up more in the form of compulsions than obsessions, and these findings support that idea: the increased activity of the precuneus may reflect individuals» efforts and ability to resist obsessive thought, and the motor cortex may be more active because OCD is manifesting itself more physically than mentally.

Once upon a time I ran with every craving and compulsion I had — even more so after I lost half my body weight, because I wanted to make up for lost time.

Quirks like this can usually be chalked up to personality or preference, but in some cases they may point to a more serious issue: obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition marked by obsessive thoughts and compulsions that affects about 1 % of U.S. adults.

To go gym is more of a dedication that allows you a compulsion to do it.

Since he is a successful businessman, I doubt he will ever have a shortage of new candidates to feed this compulsion... which he claims is more of a search for a needle in a haystack.

Going to the movies got to seem more like a pleasant pastime again instead of a masochistic compulsion.

If we reduce the aim of evangelical Christianity down to the twin compulsions of damnation and salvation, what Borat really does is reveal the hypocrisy at the root of our professed acceptance and, more troublingly, highlight how divorced we are from the guiding principles of this sea to shining sea.

The similarities in Boetticher and Tsai's films are not a function of convention but of compulsion, the variations not a matter of distinguishing their films from each other, but of encompassing their preoccupations more fully than could be accomplished in a single film.

After watching the compulsion that drives them to play without remorse, rationalize lying and be willing to manipulate others, you are more likely to feel you are encouraging an addict.

Von Trier makes no attempt in these early chapters to explain or psychoanalyze Joe's compulsion for sexual pleasure, and neither — and more importantly — does he look upon Joe in judgment.

He may be the focus of Anna Fleck and Ryan Boden's gambling drama, but Gerry's an antagonist; it's just that his compulsion to bet away every last penny makes him a danger to himself more than anyone else.

This approach might lead to more consistent standards over time, but it would do so gradually through incentives, rather than quickly through compulsion.

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Bruce, on the other hand, has not grappled with his core problem: a compulsion to spend more than he earns.

More often than not, the compulsion is a coping mechanism for Puss when he is confronted with certain pressures in his surroundings.

Subsequently, I never had to make a choice between the two teams and though I have tried to shake the fan compulsion as a more - often - than - not disappointing trivial pursuit, I appear to be stuck with it.

Compulsion training based on corrections and using shock collars often makes Pit Bulls and other Bully Breeds even more aggressive.

The «come» command must be followed with something positive, other than with a reprimand or with something that would be more associated with compulsion like, leaving the park for home or going to bath — anything that is not favorite with your puppy.

Breed - specific compulsions have been reported in several breeds [13], and although different compulsions may overlap and share biological etiology, it is also possible that they are genetically different, differ in the affected brain regions, or that certain behaviours become more predominant depending on the characteristics and functional purpose of the breeds.

Almost half of the TC dogs showed lowered responsiveness during bouts and displayed also other types of compulsions more often than the controls.

In a pooled breed analysis we found tail chasers to also have other compulsions more often than the controls, such as «invisible flies» or light - chasing behaviours (Kruskal - Wallis, x21, 308 = 4.42, p = 0.035), licking (x2 = 10.37, p = 0.001), repetitive pacing (x21, 308 = 11.23, p < 0.001) and freezing or trance - like behaviour (x21, 308 = 5.08, p = 0.024)(Fig. 5).

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This is one title i had to add more out of compulsion than personal likeness, not that i don't like the game but because of it's immense popularity.

Compulsion Games has said it is working on more directed moments, similar to the alpha's prologue.