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.
"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.
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.
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.
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).
Mine includes possessions, the idea of ownership, all the distractions of the world we live in, labels and definitions, opinions and expectations -- both our own and those of others about and for us.
In fact City's success that season owed much to Mercer's ability to curb the wilder ideas of Allison, whose possession of one of the shrewdest brains in the game was accompanied by a massive ego.
With their captain Vincent Kompany watching from the stands because of a groin injury, City once again looked vulnerable defensively and short of ideas in possession.
