Sentence examples for be possessed with from inspiring English sources

I interpreted her comments as compliments: how sophisticated I was, I thought, to be possessed with the joy of possession.

"We noted that the ad contained screams of a young girl who appeared to be possessed, with visuals that suggested supernatural activity and atmospheric music," the watchdog said.

Officials have tinkered with recent drafts of the new marijuana legislation, to lower the amounts of marijuana that can be possessed with no more penalty than the equivalent of a traffic ticket -- to 15 grams from 30 grams, or approximately 20 cigarettes.

At the same time, he was firm about his "bottom line," which, when it comes to the recovery package, is: send me a bill that creates or saves four million jobs, because everybody has to be possessed with a sense of urgency about putting people back to work, making sure that folks are staying in their homes, that they can send their kids to college.

"The pomace-flies in Morgan's splendid experiments," he explained, "continue to be pomace-flies even if they loose all good genes necessary for a normal fly-life, or if they be possessed with all the bad genes, detrimental to the welfare of this little friend of the geneticist" (Johannsen 1923, 137).

People embrace homosexual demons, but the pigs would rather die than be possessed with demons.

Gould was possessed with a philosophical vision of music.

"I'm possessed with this type of food," he said.

On the cusp of Halloween, we are possessed with curses, hexes and jinxes.

Coffey seems as gentle as his crimes are heinous, and he is possessed with an inner power to cure maladies.

Confronted by Hippolytus, Mirren cries: "You are right, I am possessed" with a dreamy, sensual languor and claws her appalled stepson with a palpable desperation.