If the public feels a certain possessiveness over the innocent victims, it also feels possessive over their abuse.
Some, like Alexander Vondra, a dissident turned hawkish defense minister, still calls the formidable former secretary of state "Madlenka", her Czech pet name, with a tender possessiveness that she seems to embrace.
This makes your friends sometimes wary: they perceive a degree of compensating possessiveness in your make-up, and fear that this may sometimes motivate your affections rather more than simple disinterested love.
It exalts the pleasures of the body and of artistic creation while scornfully rejecting feminine possessiveness and sentiment.
Now Orual comes to realize that she herself has devoured those closest and dearest to her through her jealousy and possessiveness.
The emotions include anxiety, rage, anticipation, possessiveness, nostalgia, suspicion, denial, and dread.
Though neither of them ever renounced "sleeping with lots of people," his affairs, Millet says, her voice trembling a little, like any betrayed woman's, filled her "with a terrible feeling of being supplanted," and Henric's possessiveness was just as volatile as that of any Latin lover.
Those "bars," reflected in the couplets on the page, stand for the innate possessiveness of our gaze; the "you" whose happiness depends on the cage being made pretty is, partly, the reader, who is lured by beauty to the site of pain, and whose scrutinizing presence there turns a bedroom into a prison, or perhaps a zoo.
David wants a final mad immersion in lust, which arrives, not to his surprise, with its attendant idiocies of jealousy and possessiveness.
It's as if the mandatory veil were, instantly, recognized by Sissako as a violent possessiveness that entails the public effacement — and defacing — of women, the suppression of distinctive identity in order to subordinate it to the will of men.
The fascinating documentary "Crazy Love," directed by the filmmaker and public-relations executive Dan Klores, is a real-world story, as redolent of the time and place as Dion and the Belmonts, in which possessiveness, stupidity, loyalty, and need are joined together in bewildering combinations.
