I could hardly bear to place my hand on the doorknobs and turn them, but I had a terrible compulsion to find out what was there.

Once again, he came up against a terrible compulsion.

Can't tell what might be in there, but I've got this terrible compulsion to find out!

"The result was I always had this terrible compulsion to get up," he said.

I feel as though I'm standing poised on the edge of a cliff and I've got this terrible compulsion to hurl myself over the edge.

Already the terrible compulsion to watch each movement of the swaying behemoths had become all but overwhelming.

We are under the terrible compulsion to follow our thought down to its final consequence and to act in accordance to it.

Darkness released him from the terrible compulsion; there was no point to an interview unless he was confident of the results.

He felt the terrible compulsion to obey draining the strength from him.

Giller tells Bamberg that he is attracted to high places, but has the terrible compulsion to push people off.