Sentence examples for form of possession from inspiring English sources

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It was a form of possession, of yielding with glory to a higher force.

In some contexts, where communities see disability as a curse or form of possession, they also face a deep-rooted culture of abuse and punishment.

It was an unprecedented period of success with Juan Pablo Sorín, Esteban Cambiasso, Pablo Aimar, Juan Román Riquelme, Javier Saviola and Maxi Rodríguez among the players whom Pékerman schooled in a highly effective form of possession football that he hoped would serve Argentina well in the future.

For example, some cultures may see trance-like states as a form of possession.

I like thinking of dance as a form of possession, a way of emptying yourself to become something even more powerful.

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Overall, there was very little cash in Plymouth Colony, so most wealth was accumulated in the form of possessions.

Tyrone becomes so unruly that a case of split personality is treated as a form of diabolical possession demanding exorcism.

This was all part of our youth in a culture that constantly reinforced how cool drugs were, though back then another beat writer, the poet David Meltzer, told me methamphetamine was a form of demonic possession.

In recent years, we have added a form of vicarious possession to our consumption: there is so much covetable material to drool over online that it is no longer possible, let alone necessary, to imagine owning a tenth of it.

At a time when literary sex was still thought of in terms of Molly Bloom's mythopoetical earthiness, Lady Chatterley's inflated lyricism or Henry Miller's grubby adventurism, the Dirty Young Men were trying to make readers see and feel sex as a domesticated form of daemonic possession, as ordinary and dangerous as a fire lighted to clear some brush.

Her current album, "Worldwide Underground," (Motown/Pgd) sounds a bit like one long song, with understated funk grooves and lyrics that are, by turns, dreamy and paranoid: it may or may not be a concept album about love as a form of spirit possession.

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