compels

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is like that quote from detective Benoit Blanc in Knives Out: “It makes no damn sense. Compels me though.”

From The Verge • Jul. 26, 2022

Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

Oh, all my bliss was in our love, but now I may not taste it; some deep energy Compels me to choose hunger.”

From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie

Compels immediate and enduring interest on the part of the reader.

From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

Once more a vain aspirant for my hand, Compels me here before you all to stand.

From Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx by Novello, Sabilla