Sentence examples for true possession from inspiring English sources

A review of Browning's Parleying claimed that Christopher Smart was "possessed by his subject... and where there is true possession – where the fires of the poet's imagination are not choked by self-consciousness or by too much fuel from the intellect – idiosyncracy, mannerism, and even conventional formulae are for the time 'burnt and purged away'".

Yet his swampy, light-filled portraits demonstrate that true possession is elusive — even in the wildest and most isolated places, nothing remains the same.

Yet his swampy, light-filled portraits demonstrate that true possession is elusive even in the wildest and most isolated places, nothing remains the same.

(PS, 'Preface', §32, 18-19) [Summary of above passage offered by J.N. Findlay] The analysis of an idea is the removal of its familiarity, its reduction to elements that are the true possessions of the thinking self.

You can understand the studio exec greenlighting the picture: everyone loves New York City cop stories, and people can't get enough of "true" demonic possession.

The ostensible reason for referees constantly blowing at breakdowns at the start of the season was to make the area a true contest for possession.

I thought we were by far the better team and I don't think the scoreline reflects the true amount of possession and chances we had.

It is not a true and legal possession.

Possession's true centre is a big, red, beating heart.

This may indicate the possession of true numerical concepts1,4 7.

We say, rather, that while in some men it is present as a mere portion of their total being- in those, namely, that have it potentially- there is, too, the man, already in possession of true felicity, who is this perfection realized, who has passed over into actual identification with it.