Sentence examples for possessed being from inspiring English sources

Such exorcisms are often violent; beating and the use of cold water to cleanse and purify the possessed being is common in many Congolese churches and elsewhere in Africa, too.

What Reed possessed was authenticity.

Any parenting smugness I once possessed is long gone.

Richter was astonished by Obrist's passion: " 'Possessed' is the word for Hans Ulrich," he told me.

It was desire itself, and the emotional and sensual power it possessed was inescapable.

These efforts to obtain the type of evidence they possessed were perfectly obvious".

What I possessed was a facility for recruiting players at the last minute.

In addition, I believe all the charm that Main Street once possessed is now gone.

Otherwise the white-hot charms this musical is said to have once possessed are left sleeping.

Such critical faculties as the liberal bien-pensantry possessed were instantly suspended.

Something once possessed is now something fleeting and much harder to obtain".