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compelling
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    It was not exactly a compelling reason to stay on in Welch for one more year.†  (source)
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    I could feel Meg's command sinking into my muscles, compelling me to obey.†  (source)
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    But the Bene Gesserit ways were devious and compelling.†  (source)
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    He turned to her, compelling her to look, but she continued to stare at the house.†  (source)
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    Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.†  (source)
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    Hands grabbed my wrists and pried my hands from my face, compelling me to bend over.†  (source)
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    And how distant, cold, and compellingly attractive was this woman to whom he had sacrificed all he had, whom he had preferred to everything, and in comparison with whom everything seemed to him worthless!†  (source)
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    None of this compelling mitigating evidence was presented at trial, and it should have been.†  (source)
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    And then, most compellingly for Laila, there is Mariam.†  (source)
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    But the need to speak was more compelling.†  (source)
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    What a compellingly modern horror story.†  (source)
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    I guess I've just never found a compelling reason to leave Tinos.†  (source)
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    UNFORTUNATELY, however, the Christmas dinner at the Griffiths', which included the Starks and their daughter Arabella, Mr. and Mrs. Wynant, who in the absence of their daughter Constance with Gilbert were dining with the Griffiths, the Arnolds, Anthonys, Harriets, Taylors and others of note in Lycurgus, so impressed and even overawed Clyde that although five o'clock came and then six, he was incapable of breaking away or thinking clearly and compellingly of his obligation to Roberta.†  (source)
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