compulsion
irresistible impulse

As she placed my choice on the counter top, I gave in to an irresistible impulse and requested a can of green beans.

Not meaning to, I reached out and touched the book; an irresistible impulse.

Looking wouldn't help, but it was an almost irresistible impulse.

Why had he felt that irresistible impulse to seek her out?

"There has to be an irresistible impulse to do it."

He had an almost irresistible impulse to wave, but of course he did not.

At the top of the stairs, moved by an irresistible impulse, she turned and looked into the hall.

Warwick's walk led him within three feet of the side gate, which he felt an almost irresistible impulse to enter.

It's an irresistible impulse to use taxpayer money to promote themselves.

They don't commit crimes because they're in the grip of some irresistible impulse.