compelling
menarik
definition
verb
a sense of duty compelled Harry to answer her questions
force or oblige (someone) to do something.
adjective
his eyes were strangely compelling
evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way.
example
But there's a very 'compelling' party interest, they believe, in unifying the party, so one candidate can carry the banner against the candidates.
Moreover, the United States has a 'compelling' interest in learning to distinguish between constructive critics and corrupt subversives.
Neither government has demonstrated any 'compelling' evidence it will reduce borrowing anytime soon.
The court has accepted that the appellant was convicted on the 'compelling' evidence that was placed before the jury.
Readers fed a steady diet of contemporary theology may not have the stomach to venture beyond this asserted conclusion to get caught up in the 'compelling' argument she presents.
Nobody can resist a 'compelling' story and even fewer can resist one so intricately woven into the total experience.
After viewing all of this evidence you would think that there is a 'compelling' argument for the introduction of a winter break.
Even were we to judge an author's arguments as 'compelling' or obvious, only time and the future decides whether or not they are true.
Let the film-makers first give us a 'compelling' reason to pay attention to their work.
But try though she might, she could not succeed in drawing attention to this 'compelling' side of her.
The 'compelling' visuality of the work of art resists appropriation by either the cleverness of historical explanations or the eloquence of descriptive language.
But there are 'compelling' interests on the other side here.
There are no other 'compelling' reasons or interest which justify this being given permission for a further appeal.
The result is a 'compelling' human interest drama that only overplays its hand in the heart-tugging overkill of the closing sequences.
He stops short of saying they for sure should get in, but the argument is a 'compelling' one nonetheless.
The burden shifts to the government to show a compelling interest for its policy which burdens the right, and that the policy is narrowly tailored to that 'compelling' interest.
The courts have widely recognized that remedying the present effects of an institution's past discrimination is a 'compelling' interest.
A more likely reason for the present reluctance is the lack of 'compelling' evidence that demonstrates unequivocally the failure of the standard force fields.
Although it is difficult to unequivocally equate regeneration with predatory activity, there is 'compelling' evidence for just such a conclusion.
Images tell a story and also form a rhetoric of travel, a way to make a 'compelling' argument and bring back conclusions from the realm of the unknown to the known.
No credible person could dispute that having impartial judges is a 'compelling' state interest.
The ultrastructural evidence makes a 'compelling' argument for this tumor being of salivary nonrenal origin, distinct from CCC.19
This often explains The West Wing, too, whose episodes and arcs often have disparate threads that come together into a 'compelling' and powerful resolution.
Penn's acting is powerful, 'compelling' and intense.
The result is a powerful and 'compelling' polemic.
The only standard I care about in advertising is accuracy - and it's the only area in which the state, as the regulator of commerce, has any sort of a 'compelling' interest to interfere.
This paper has discovered a mass of 'compelling' evidence which proves that much is wrong with both our justice system and with the politicians who administer it on our behalf.
Despite these weaknesses, his film has many 'compelling' moments with strong performances from the leading actors.
The absence of compulsory or generally accepted judicial settlement of international disputes is taken as 'compelling' evidence that the law is not taken seriously and hence that power politics prevails.
It's just too bad that he can't resist the temptation of inflating a 'compelling' story with too much self-importance.
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