Sentence examples for idea of possession from inspiring English sources

Online services set content free from the physical world's constraints including those that have defined the very idea of possession.

"A Doll's House, Part 2" is a play about a play, and about men looking at women — though not condescendingly, or with anything approaching lust and, thus, the idea of possession.

I've long been fascinated by the idea of possession, whether it's by the devil, or alcoholism or black-outs in the brain so The Exorcist may well have sowed some seeds that took root in me.

If you thought Possession went deep in thinking about the impulses behind writing lives, the public-private relationship with regard to fiction, the idea of possession of a life of a writer (or otherwise)... and my god it's good on politics too... Degrus: Depressingly backwards-looking shortlist.

"I am what I have… what is mine is myself". Researchers have spent hundreds of years trying to define when and how this integrated idea of possession as something that makes us who we are developed, what it means, its function and whether it's exclusively human.

Here the word is a redolent of sexual abandonment, a kind of stand-in for the idea of possession by another as a means of self-exploration and ultimately self-reclamation.

We have trouble understanding intellectual property because our ideas of possession and theft are based on physical objects.

For Pfaff, the video was more than just a distraction it became the inspiration for his forthcoming movie, which explores ideas of possession and conduits.

"We live in this world of viral videos," he added, "and everyone's looking for that next campfire tale or urban legend so they can be distracted". For Pfaff, the video was more than just a distraction it became the inspiration for his forthcoming movie, which explores ideas of possession and conduits.

But Mr. Cohen dismissed the idea of reclaiming possession of his songs as one of the motives for going back on tour.

The second sort of argument rests on the idea of concept possession (Bealer 1999: 255 65).