I interpreted her comments as compliments: how sophisticated I was, I thought, to be possessed with the joy of possession.
Gould was possessed with a philosophical vision of music.
"I'm possessed with this type of food," he said.
On the cusp of Halloween, we are possessed with curses, hexes and jinxes.
Coffey seems as gentle as his crimes are heinous, and he is possessed with an inner power to cure maladies.
Confronted by Hippolytus, Mirren cries: "You are right, I am possessed" with a dreamy, sensual languor and claws her appalled stepson with a palpable desperation.
"Homosexuality," says Pastor Mario Manyozo of the Word of Life Tabernacle Church in Malawi, "is against God's creation and is an evil act, since gays are possessed with demons".
"This life," wrote the French poet Charles Baudelaire more than a century ago, "is a hospital where each patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed".
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that if someone is possessed with a demon, you have to beat it out of them.
"We noted that the ad contained screams of a young girl who appeared to be possessed, with visuals that suggested supernatural activity and atmospheric music," the watchdog said.
Ms. Snyder, who owns an art gallery in San Francisco, may not be privy to the inner workings of the fashion world, but she is possessed with the fashion addict's need to know.
