Sentence examples for through possessions from inspiring English sources

For two hours, the families took it all in, went through possessions and retrieved pictures of children and keepsakes like baby blankets.

In an essay about Carmelo Anthony, the star is described as "a gigantic basketball nerd" who "works through possessions like logic puzzles".

Picking through possessions, dividing them fairly and discerning what has monetary value and what does not can be a mammoth job, especially if it's done under duress or during a time of grieving.

In Agnieszka Holland's wrenching new film, "In Darkness," based on a true story, a Polish Catholic sewer worker named Leopold Socha Robert Wieckiewiczz) and his younger sidekick, Szczepek (Krzysztof Skonieczny), discover a way of supplementing their income: they loot abandoned houses and sort through possessions dumped into the street; they store the goods in the city's sewers.

Her fascination with garage sales — as portraits, through possessions, of the people who hold them; as economic end runs engineered mostly by women; as suburban sacrament and social gathering — goes back to seeing them for the first time after moving to California in the 1970s.

That provision may have been used by federal agents to rummage through possessions of Brandon Mayfield, the lawyer from the Portland, Ore., area suspected and later cleared of a connection to the bombings in Madrid earlier this year, said his lawyer, Steven T. Wax.

The pass is Barcelona's identity; it is through possession that they feel comfortable and it is through possession that they do everything – from creating chances to preventing them, from speeding up the game to slowing it down.

The legendary scene midway through "Possession" (1981), the lone cine Zulawskienne example released in the United States, has Isabelle Adjani flinging herself against the walls of a dank West Berlin underpass while hemorrhaging fluids from every orifice.

It was the game we all love with intuitive brilliance taken out, Mulder observed: football by numbers, you might say, in which players are cogs in a football machine intent on control through possession.

Further galleries examine the nature of divine bodies; heroism and ideal bodies; asceticsm and the yogic body; and rapture – the self lost through possession or love, consumed by another.

It begins with the death of Stronghold's cagey monarch (Peter O'Toole), who pits his seven sons against one another for the throne, which can be won only through possession of a ruby pendant worn by Yvaine.