Sentence examples for cannot possess from inspiring English sources

Emily is the Englishness that Zafar cannot possess.

He's my hero because he is only interested in what he cannot possess.

You cannot possess much of the great art of the world, but you can perceive it, particularly through reading.

Here, I am happy to report, they cannot possess a handgun; up the road a couple of miles, in Vermont, a sixteen-year-old can.

Writers in New York are like the mice in a New York apartment; we own the place, there are so many of us, but we cannot possess it.

Otherwise Elliot accuses everyone who has ever thought about an old Persian building of judging that Islamic art cannot possess anything so vague as a "spirit".

Take this wonderful description: The fact that this was our last meeting has invested it, in retrospect, with a significance which surely it cannot have possessed.

"This barrier is inherently insurmountable: one cannot study a product of Nature if one cannot legally possess it".

In Mrs. Obama, the fashion industry has found a woman it can admire but cannot completely possess.

The body, then, which moves in a circle cannot possibly possess either heaviness or lightness.

They cannot alone possess the power to carry their idea out, but they must be able to acquire easily the necessary power.