She did not want to go, but that inner compulsion made her.
He exalted them for their "expression of an inner compulsion."
It is an inner compulsion of mine, and I must do it.
Here the same inner compulsion made him turn north again and return in the direction from which he had come.
Wasn't she motivated by the same inner compulsion, the urge to forge ahead?
But whatever the reason, he felt a strange, inner compulsion to return to that path again.
The journey to good painting, she firmly believes, starts with an inner compulsion.
There was an inner compulsion - he felt as though he had no choice in the matter.
There was simply an inner compulsion to open his palm and spit upon it.
There was some inner compulsion that would not be disobeyed.
