Sentence examples for prepossession from inspiring English sources

So much so that Douglas Adams, author of the humorous science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, observed Earthlings' odd prepossession with the movement of "small green pieces of paper"—this from a British writer, in the 1980s already, in a world in which most banknotes aren't green.The ironic twist is that even America's banknotes are becoming less and less green themselves.

"I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles".

"All historians are prisoners of their own experience and servitors to their own prepossessions," wrote Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in 2006, a year before his death, at eighty-nine.

Gil reflected on those years last night at the New York Public Library, recalling the… Sitting in a storage complex in Long Island City, waiting to be sorted and processed, are several hundred boxes that make up the complete archive… "All historians are prisoners of their own experience and servitors to their own prepossessions," wrote Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in 2006, a year before his death,….

By Scott Staton March 10, 2011 "All historians are prisoners of their own experience and servitors to their own prepossessions," wrote Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in 2006, a year before his death, at eighty-nine.

The New York Public Library. ) "All historians are prisoners of their own experience and servitors to their own prepossessions," wrote Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in 2006, a year before his death, at eighty-nine.

With it, man attains the sovereign power to wring from every experience its content, to surrender wholly to it without prepossession….Every beauty, every sanctity, every sacrifice, re-lived and expounded, opens up perspectives which disclose a reality….And, in contrast with the relativity, the continuity of the creative force makes itself feel as the central historical fact".