Sentence examples for we were possessed from inspiring English sources
In the soft glamour of the midsummer midnight sun, we were possessed by a rapturous wonder – the rare thrill of unreality.
Then, suddenly, as Paar explained why he had gone away & why he had returned, we were possessed by a sence of standing at one of those watershed of history.
On the cusp of Halloween, we are possessed with curses, hexes and jinxes.
"It's as if we are possessed by a spirit — like in a strange horror film".
In the two decades since Dr. Wilson published "Biophilia," many other researchers have explored the meaning of nature-lust, and its components, and the extent to which we are possessed by it.
Yet there is a problem with it – because of its metaphysical implications, it suggests evil as something alien and other, something of which we are possessed, something that takes us over.
Similarly, the first sentence of Thomas Kuhn's masterpiece, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (now half a century old), instantiates a more general piece of wisdom: History can change the images by which we are possessed.
Raban brings up Freud's notion that none of us has memories of our time before we were three, because in those first years of life "we are possessed by such gales of lust, rage and dizzy elation... " Then he says: "Julia seemed to have found in the waves something grandly commensurate to her own oceanic turbulence".
We're possessed by Gatsby's vision of an unbounded future, even though we know it to be a fantasy.
Instead of curling photographs and yellowing newspapers, we are possessed of a shiny and permanent now, one we flit-click about and so delude ourselves as to our own eternal youth - until, that is, we look down at the wrinkled and liver-spotted hands that rest on the keyboard.
