Sentence examples for absolute possession from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "absolute possession" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing ownership, control, or complete authority over something.
Example: "The artist felt a sense of absolute possession over her work, believing it to be a true reflection of her identity."
Alternatives: "complete ownership" or "total control".

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He was in absolute possession of his property until it reverted to the crown upon his death.

But Kepesh's smug superiority is soon troubled by an impulse closely aligned with his lust: the art collector's desire for sole and absolute possession, which Consuela, whose sensuous abandon exists alongside a Catholic schoolgirl's sense of propriety, decisively frustrates.

If dated, the piece does show off the company, particularly Gillian Murphy, a tall redhead of whiplash elegance, and David Hallberg, whose soaring line takes absolute possession of the stage space.

When I hear him described as not sexist, not racist, not playing on white fears, not arousing hate, when he's described in a kind of normalised way, as someone in absolute possession of policy knowledge, as someone who's somehow in the acceptable range of rhetoric, I think I'm hallucinating.

This tableau of absolute possession — in which elderly, wealthy men surround themselves with compliant, silent, mostly naked and much younger women — is less predatory than pathetic, as if Ms. Leigh were rolling her eyes at the portentous, unsmiling eroticism on display at the parties in "Eyes Wide Shut".

Therefore, the absolute possession time of each node is iteratively updated until the predecessor vehicle has left the intersection.

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Whether playing jittery Southern women in "Steel Magnolias" and "Crimes of the Heart," or porcelain beauties from another era in "Heartbreak House," "The American Plan" and now "Merchant," she can combine gossamer fragility with absolute self-possession.

Every night now when I get home from work, I flip on my beautiful brass key-pattern lamp -- my absolute favorite possession -- and it instantly diffuses any stress and worries.

This conception of absolute ownership (dominium) is characteristically Roman, as opposed to the relative idea of ownership as the better right to possession that underlies the Germanic systems and English law.

Our right to property is not absolute; our possessions are held in trust, as it were.

Issued by a tribal leader, it granted Harlan powers that included "the absolute and complete possession of his government".

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