What's the difference between baloney and compulsion?

Baloney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Female columnists have not been kind to the group in retrospect; Caitlin Moran basically blamed "Girl Power" for the loss of interest in feminism, while Grace Dent went further by saying that "any student in 2012 who regurgitates this Spice Girls-helped-feminism baloney in a dissertation should have the whole thing shredded and be made to wear a dunce cone in graduation pics".
  • (2) Sapin, in a French twist on Johnson’s “baloney” jibe, said: “There are four freedoms and they cannot be separated.
  • (3) This is pure baloney: the bottom line is that all the major technology companies outside of China are American.
  • (4) Sometimes it occupies the high ground and sometimes it is camped so far down-market, amid celebrity trivia and Big Brother baloney, as to be almost out of sight.
  • (5) Farage describes the Hitler Youth song allegation as “baloney”.
  • (6) Farage said any suggestion of singing Hitler youth songs was "complete baloney", but admitted: "Of course I said some ridiculous things, not necessarily racist things."
  • (7) An interview with the author, Jessica Porter, ran in a British broadsheet on Monday and was as full of baloney as the diet itself is full of wholegrains, which, Porter claims Gillian McKeith-style, "literally have intelligence" – a claim that begs the snark, "Well, comparatively, perhaps."
  • (8) Hinting that he would like to take on the EFDD role, Nuttall said: “If the opportunity became available, of course, as leader of Ukip, I would like to do it, but it would only be done with agreement of Nigel.” Talk of a coup was “complete baloney”, he said.
  • (9) In the spin-room after the debate, Romney's spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom responded to the "pious baloney" line with a sly reference to the embarrassing disclosure last year that Gingrich has a $500,000 account with Tiffany's, presumably having lavished jewellery on his wife Callista.
  • (10) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , out for revenge after being on the receiving end of a $4m (£2.6m) advertising battering from Romney in Iowa, did not hold back, accusing him of lying, being unelectable and, in a phrase likely to be remembered long after the campaign is over, of talking "pious baloney".
  • (11) You don’t want to be in that kind of situation, so you gotta be quiet about it, so you don’t go down that route.” While shackled and interrogated over the next three days, police fed Terry only twice, he said, with baloney sandwiches and juice.
  • (12) Baloney!” Cakmakci is the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 951 .
  • (13) Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, told Sky News on Thursday that the EU’s position that there was an automatic trade-off between access to the single market and free movement was “complete baloney”.
  • (14) And George young has taken the bait: "Gary Naylor may be looking for a rise and I'm happy to give it to him - his comment about Ronaldo is utter baloney.
  • (15) John Cakmakci’s response to that argument is simple:“Baloney!
  • (16) Quell is a damaged second-world-war navy vet; groggy on paintstripper liquor, reeling from a broken heart, who falls under the spell of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the baloney-preaching leader of a Scientology-style cult.

Compulsion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (2) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (3) Associated features include previous illness phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • (4) Efficacy assessments included the child version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the National Institute of Mental Health Global rating scale.
  • (5) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
  • (6) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
  • (7) In this article, obsessive compulsive disorder, its subtypes, and epidemiologic features are described.
  • (8) This suggests that the locomotor stimulation induced by amphetamine involves central norepinephrine, while dopamine neurons play an important role in the induced compulsive gnawing behavior.
  • (9) A principal axis factor analysis with a Promax rotation was performed on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
  • (10) The main phenomenological differences between hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have been interpreted as expressive of the lower and higher levels of intrapsychic integration respectively.
  • (11) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • (12) A young adolescent girl (13.5 years old) with a compulsive eating disorder and gross obesity was treated with a combination of behavior therapy and fenfluramine (Ponderax).
  • (13) The four most frequently identified personality disorders were avoidance 26.7%, paranoia 21.3%, self-defeating 19.1%, and obsessive-compulsive 17.1%.
  • (14) In both samples patients with blood type A scored significantly higher than those with type O on the 'Obsessive-Compulsive' and 'Psychoticism' factors.
  • (15) But at some point I realized that it's precisely because they continuously justify so much violence and aggression from their side that they have such a boundless compulsion to depict others as the Uniquely Primitive and Violent Evil.
  • (16) Five patients (14 per cent) improved dramatically; in retrospect, four of these five patients suffered from nonremitting forms of manic-depressive illness, and the fifth patient suffered from a severe obsessive compulsive neurosis.
  • (17) Improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptoms did not correlate significantly with plasma concentrations of the drug or its metabolites.
  • (18) The authors present a case of coexisting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar affective disorder in which the obsessive-compulsive symptoms disappeared during episodes of mania and reappeared during periods of depression.
  • (19) Social phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder comprised those patients with similar qualities to each other in terms of their demographic data and their social backgrounds, forming a distinct group apparently different from the panic-generalized anxiety group.
  • (20) And customers and governments need to give up their compulsive throw-away habits and embrace the take-back economy.