Sentence examples for possesses an idea from inspiring English sources

A person possesses an idea when he is prepared to use a given object in a manner that will produce a predictable result.

One about drinking left him believing that she was possessed, an idea whose tawdry allure was both obvious and appealing.

I suppress my dream of power, a fantasy I might possess an idea to improve myself or society, let alone possess the means to show any single person what she should or shouldn't do next.

J R, who aspires to be a television news anchor, is vain, needy and abrasive, but at least seems to possess an idea of what it would mean to be charming.

In this way, the individual should come to possess "an idea of an absolute good, common to him with [all other members of society] — an idea indefinable indeed in imagination, but gradually defining itself in act" (PE 202).

All of these individuals have three things in common: they possess an idea, have the desire for change and they can't do it alone.

The production shows what happens when people become possessed with an idea of total equality, and how they come to sacrifice themselves and others in the name of this ideal.

Leslie announced that on the way to New Jersey he had been possessed by an idea of such power that he threw away the speech he had originally planned to give (it wasn't the first time he had used this exordium).

When applied to primary ideas, the distinction traces out the two kinds of reality possessed by an idea.

I'm pretty sure I do not possess an accurate idea of what the average Angel fan is like or how they feel toward the team.

Hill also said that the Russians, partly because they "have" Edward Snowden, in Moscow, possess "a good idea of what the U.S. is capable of knowing.