Sentence examples for loved possessed from inspiring English sources

A key to her resistance may be suggested by remarks she made to Evans as she recalled her happiness in being loved — "possessed," as she put it — by her father: To be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling.

As Gibran says, "Love possesses not nor would it be possessed.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

For his follow-up, he made the somewhat surprising By Love Possessed (1961), a Lana Turner soap opera about the secrets of a small New England town.

In constrast to his political profile, Davis was an extrovert figure - tall, handsome, attractive to women (whose company he loved) and possessed of great charm and humour.

"Many countries of a comparable size and world influence would dearly love to possess even a tiny handful of our leading universities," the foreword says.

And he who chooses poverty for himself and loves it possesses a great treasure and will hear the voice of his conscience address him every more clearly.

If you don't have one, you can create one based on the qualities you most admire in people or would love to possess, such as being confident, strong, assertive or authoritative.

In the case of "By Love Possessed" he was attacking a man.

I was the one who turned around "Possessed by Love," which just lay there, to "By Love Possessed".

Macdonald was obliged to publish his classic evisceration of James Gould Cozzens's "By Love Possessed" in Commentary, because the novel had been reviewed enthusiastically in The New Yorker by Brendan Gill.