Sentence examples for without possessing it from inspiring English sources

He wants to be as close as he can be to the peregrine without possessing it; rather, in the end, it is the falcon or Baker's image of it that possesses him, which is the natural outcome of unrequited love.

"The bouncer is supposed to be an arbiter of status without possessing it, passing judgment on the status of those who would otherwise (and often still do) regard him with unvarnished condescension," the article observes.

In fact, kindness is so necessary for them that they cannot be admirable without possessing it in an eminent degree" [CN, p.233].

They might deceive people into thinking they can communicate the sense of duende without possessing it, as authors, painters, and literary fashion-makers deceive us every day, without possessing duende: but we only have to attend a little, and not be full of indifference, to discover the fraud, and chase off that clumsy artifice".

All that it is capable of being, already possesses it in entirety without losing it or without accumulating" (Elem. Theol. § 52).

Without possessing both shares, it is infeasible for anyone to retrieve the secret image from each share.

From this result, Rands et al. argued that one individual can consistently act as a leader without possessing any special qualities predetermining its role.

Most unusual, Grove would be moving forward on the project without possessing any kind of concrete proof that its author was who he claimed to be — or that he was even alive.

For all the noise and violence, it is impossible to become a champion boxer without possessing supreme levels of discipline, competitive intelligence and tactical wit.

Suppose that God is simple in the sense that, for any two of his first-order properties, P and Q, either P is identical with Q or P is logically equivalent to Q (that is, it is impossible for him to possess P without possessing Q, and vice versa).

One argument is that it is possible to have lots of knowledge-that without possessing any knowledge-how.