Sentence examples for possessed as from inspiring English sources

They all possessed, as well as literary talent, enough self-confidence to protect them from the need to justify themselves to posterity.

It deals with the changeable nature of beauty as that bright shiny thing that must be possessed, as well as being a signifier of transience and loss.

Connecticut has a ban on assault weapons but some semi-automatic weapons can be possessed as long as they meet certain criteria.

Meslow felt that the interactions between Lori and Rick possessed "as much rawness and honesty as could be hoped for".

Soon after, the company came under heavy fire from an old quarry occupied by over one hundred German soldiers who possessed as many as forty machine guns.

But Terence is also possessed — as in overtaken — by the spirit of his dead son, Reuben.

ET's community practitioners typically possessed - as a minimum - a National Governing Body Level 2 sport qualification.

In class, she seemed so self-possessed, as if she had already weighed and measured everything we might possibly say.

At last, her debut is set, and on the night of it, she is as self-possessed as ever.

The essays are O.K., and the handwriting almost as sprawling, ornate and self-possessed as John Hancock's.

The piles of books and folders that overwhelm most surfaces are the first indication that Mrs Johnson might not be as self-possessed as she seems.