You have to want it with a compelling urgency.

The women at the platform chanted with the most compelling urgency; the men stood nude.

He felt a sudden compelling urgency to--but such a thing would have been inexpressibly obscene in human terms, had it been possible or even conceivable.

With their sense of rage and helplessness, they give "Humans" a compelling urgency that, in its best passages, outweighs its obvious gimmicks.

One measure of Michael Crawford's power in the show's title role is his skill at investing such fatuous invocations with a compelling obsessional urgency.

Yet he also had a calm certainty that gave his words a compelling urgency.

He was driving quickly but nowhere near his limit: there seemed to be no compelling urgency about the task on hand.

But the blunt directness and imaginative play of his symbolic meditations on mortality give them a compelling urgency.

What he holds back, as much as what he shows, informs his playing with compelling urgency, empathy and stark magnificence.

Miles wondered briefly how many key command decisions in history had been flicked out in the compelling urgency of some like biological necessity.