Sentence examples for been possessed from inspiring English sources

No, Valerie Eliot had been possessed by love, and it stayed in her possession, and one felt complicit in it, talking to her.

It's as if he has been possessed".

I've never been possessed by such a thought!

John Updike must have been possessed of a purer energy than any writer since DH Lawrence.

Generations of haunted readers have been possessed by the sweet, terrible intensities of Brontë creativity.

Saul thought he had been possessed by a devil, possibly by Satan himself.

Tolkien wasn't just a scholar of dead languages; he appears to have been possessed by them.

Every President to date has been possessed of a Y chromosome.

It seems, rather, that the troubled adolescent has simply been possessed by an evil spirit.

I've never been possessed by a book in quite that way.

"It was as if we had been possessed by the demons of the Mediterranean," Mathews said.