Sentence examples for much possessed by from inspiring English sources

James was much possessed by death.

David Eagleman is much possessed by ideas of salvation.

As Eliot put it in the poem "Whispers of Immortality": "Webster was much possessed by death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin,/ And breastless creatures underground/ Leaned backward with a lipless grin".

"WEBSTER was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin … " In James's novel, Clarissa Lisle is murdered on the eve of her appearance in The Duchess of Malfi.

Its span encompasses both male and female ranges, from basso profundo to coloratura soprano; grasped between the knees, it is not so much possessed by the player as embraced, its shrieks and rumbles absorbed fully by the body.

TS Eliot wrote that "Webster was much possessed by death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin" but in The Duchess of Malfi he goes even deeper – having peeled away skin and flesh, he cracks open the bone and delves into the darkest recesses of human psychology.

Quite the contrary: he was warning us that the kingdom of God (or of heaven on earth) would never be realized, much less possessed, by the avaricious or the greedy.

It pretty much possessed me this week.

The undrawn regenerated films regain levels of crystallinity much lower than possessed by the uncomplexed PA66 reference film.

But so much art is now possessed by a terminal self-regard.

As the onetime slaves of "Gem" and the Ivy League literati of "Violet" try to imagine their destinies, it becomes clear how much each dramatist is possessed by an intoxicated love of words, a musical ear for language and a willingness to break through the boundaries of naturalism to explore the inexplicable.