Sentence examples for possessed nothing from inspiring English sources

He possessed nothing that anyone could ever call doubt, inside.

Thieves were certainly not uncommon in our village, but I knew we possessed nothing truly worth stealing.

They possessed nothing more than the appeal of written things and they were no less beautiful for it.

The Franciscans maintained that they lived the most perfect life that was humanly possible, following the model of Christ and the apostles who, they claimed, possessed nothing either as individuals or in common.

To get around this limitation, Cunchillos and Lecointre (2007) had the ingenious idea of treating metabolic pathways as you would organisms (or taxa) while using enzymes and enzymatic functions as characters to build a metabolic phylogeny with an outgroup that obviously possessed nothing.

Or you may leave it forever and never return to it, for we possess nothing.

"These memories, which are my life — for we possess nothing certainly except the past — were always with me," he begins.

He imposes his will on the servants and on his cowed son, who possesses nothing as he waits in line to inherit, history permitting.

Should they returning home to Ukrainian territory, ex-prisoners possess nothing more than a Russian-issued certificate of release while their criminal case records and all the necessary documentation remains in Crimea.

While Walser was no stranger to the evangelical desire to possess nothing and to give away everything one owns — as in The Robber — he made no claim to any kind of messianic calling.

It's fair to say that The Grandmaster possesses nothing like the bounding, light-on-its-feet energy of Lee's film; Wong's film is much more a study of ideas and textures, designed to ravish the senses.