Antonym: permissive. Similar words: compel, rolling, fulfilling, willingness, spell, compete, competitor, compensate for. Meaning: [-lɪŋ] adj. 1. driving or forcing 2. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument.
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(121) Where numbers, and options, are reduced, the need to concentrate on essentials is the more compelling.
(122) Mark Winston in Nature Wars provides a compelling account of why this has happened.
(123) Orwell's 'Burmese Days' is a compelling account of life under British Colonial rule.
(124) I think that a compelling vision combined with a unique ability to manage risk is the magic behind successful entrepreneurs.
(125) It was difficult on everybody and there was an allegiance to Jef, but Steve had his own compelling aura.
(126) A natural target, then: a nationwide monopoly, compelling the public to buy from a single supplier.
(127) As Romantic drama evolves, the pariah soon becomes the most compelling of characters.
(128) He was energetic, headstrong, and unorthodox-and he had compelling reasons for reducing the ruinously expensive Soviet nuclear arsenal.
(129) Particularly important are its compelling eyewitness interviews, since there are still those among us who actually believe the Holocaust never happened.
(130) However, the officer in charge of the investigation said it was the only way to gather compelling evidence.
(131) It is this fascinating shift in power that forms the basis of Hugo Vickers' compelling article about the Waleses.
(132) It is this later Holiday which most recognise and her admirers point to her last years as her most compelling.
(133) For one thing, the memoirs of several surviving actors in the drama have appeared with compelling new details of the intrigue.
(134) In the spring of 1978, it was dusted off for a more compelling reason, namely domestic politics.
(135) I hear the whip at his back compelling him to shed his will, to stay in line.
(136) We try to gain credit by inventing less compelling reasons for our conduct.
(137) Since there is an interesting case for each, it certainly seems that there may be a compelling case for combining them.
(138) However, it is necessary to say a word or two here to refute this seemingly compelling argument.
(139) But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
(140) The similarity of the central flower in mosaic 7 with that in the same position in mosaic C is more compelling.
(141) A compelling performance consequence can always be found, if only you choose to find, communicate, and manage toward it.
(142) Once established, initiatives in the vision of how must sustain a clear and compelling link to performance.
(143) Their excursion into the progressive circles of hell is recorded with such precision that the film is like a compelling vivisection experiment.
(144) Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. Criss Jami
(145) A highly talented writer and a compelling public speaker, he quickly became the best-known left-wing agitator in Derry.
(146) It is this potency that makes him so compelling a figure.
(147) Nicolas Werth's excellent 235 pages on cycles of violence in the Soviet Union is the most compelling section of the book.
(148) Evidence to support a defect in cell mediated immunity is more compelling.
(149) Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years.
(150) However,[http://sentencedict.com/compelling.html] Freud was a great writer and a compelling personality.
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