Sentence examples for less possessed from inspiring English sources

Users such as Stayontheroofs were less possessed: "The Thing is a film about a man's head coming off and turning into a big spider," he or she said.

The love object in Proust is always created by the lover's imagination and better enjoyed the less possessed, the more imagined.

The dwarves, in their small way, are no less possessed, and the joke is that a hobbit, who wishes nobody ill, should help to lead them into temptation.

The sixth President did, however, make a disarming acknowledgment of the situation in his Inaugural Address: "Less possessed of your confidence in advance than any of my predecessors, I am deeply conscious of the prospect that I shall stand more and oftener in need of your indulgence".

We are not fundamentally different from Rita Ross, or from Joan Byron-Marasek, who oversaw the Bengals of Jackson at Six Flags Wild Safari, except that we are not so pungently fragranced, and our lives are less possessed by what we own.

And this, dear reader, is what the odious King wrote: "The only unfortunate part of the whole story is that the Jews having acquired foothold of (sic) Sandy Hill, it will not be long before this part of Ottawa will become more or less possessed by them.

Toibin's new novel stands apart because its protagonist has such an uncritical nature that she doesn't see she has grounds for complaint, much less possess any impulse to initiate confrontation.

While "social class 0" is a group that has never been categorized and defined, and therefore does not exist, even less possess any planning characteristics, there are existing categorizations that are so general that they too lack obvious characteristics for the planners.

The three sons are driven by their desire to take Lucious's power and more or less possess Cookie.

The less you possess, the less there is to maintain.

The results showed that less resharpened tools possessed flatter, less spherical shapes than the more resharpened tools, which possessed more globular, spherical shapes, suggesting Clovis foragers exploited the retouch potential afforded by the larger, flatter blanks.