| 单词 | possessed |
| 例句 | He obeyed an instinct that he did not know he possessed and swerved over the open space so that the spears went wide. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Because he possessed what seemed to be an unusually reliable memory, I was particularly interested to hear how his version of the events jibed with my own. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent the rest of the day alternately staring into space and writing like a man possessed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The supposition that Remedios the Beauty possessed powers of death was then borne out by four irrefutable events. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He was glad to have Frank at his back, big and strong and able to turn into scary animals in case those possessed tourists somehow broke through the hatch, squeezed inside, and followed them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was gagging, then hacking violently, and he shook his hands in front of him—with his eyes closed, shaking his hands, he appeared almost possessed—and I felt my forehead break into a sweat. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s over,” Gregor said with an authority he didn’t know he possessed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Rachel, with a ghost of the charm she must once have possessed, succeeded in drawing William, if not actually into the circle, at least to its warm circumference. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Each one was an entity in its own right, each possessed its own consciousness and a full set of limbs capable of autonomous movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A gene, in short, possessed not just information to encode a protein, but also information about when and where to make that protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They possessed good natural climbing ability, and that weasel—what was his name? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z You didn’t have a choice about who possessed you: when a spirit wanted you, he or she generally got his or her way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Only avatars who possessed a copy of the Crystal Key could cross the threshold of the castle’s front entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Madison possessed the subtlest and most intellectually sophisticated understanding of the choices facing the new American republic of any member of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Burnham now possessed formal authority to begin building a fair, but he still had no place to put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They possessed the academic know-how, they possessed the technical and the scientific skills that could help to lead their mass of poor, black brothers out of our condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What possibly could’ve possessed any person to want to spread it? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Mark’s attention was fully on the man in the green suit now, and a sudden gray tinge washed over the man’s face, as if he’d been possessed by some ghostly presence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She was one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Are you possessed of,” he cleared his throat and read directly off the page. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z James does not feel like he was possessed by the devil. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It was like he was possessed or in some kind of trance. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z With her eyes half-open, Tessie gazed out across the dark bedroom glinting and sparking in the corners, and saw before her all the items I had ever worn or possessed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She'd never expressed any great interest in the thing but was chosen because, at the age of ten, she possessed what our dad decided were the most artistic fingers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The wind blew from Faerie and the East, and Tristran Thorn suddenly found inside himself a certain amount of courage he had not suspected that he had possessed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Martials believe that the Augurs’ “power” comes from being possessed by the spirits of the dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Wart was so much impressed by the kindness of the old man, and particularly by the lovely things which he possessed, that he hardly liked to ask him personal questions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The small metal cylinder allowed the avatar who possessed it to transform into Ultraman once a day, for up to three minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps no organization on earth, save the Communist party, possessed so detailed a knowledge of how workers lived, for its sources of information stemmed directly from the workers themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m possessed as I continue beating Gavin Rose on his body and face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Hazel and Frank had been knocked out by the tendrils of a possessed steampunk bowling ball. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Although Roosevelt wasn’t a natural athlete, he possessed another quality that made him stand out. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z At the end of the interview, the regent bade me good-bye and handed me a pound note for pocket money, the largest amount of money I had ever possessed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “She said she had been possessed by a shave for stealing, but a spirit medium drove it out.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It meant Tyler was ready to denounce me, to say my father’s words, that I was possessed, dangerous. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I suppose he wanted to remove that last fuel tank, but I can’t imagine what possessed him to light his torch without first draining the fuel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended, and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When I found out I was Divergent, I thought of it as a secret power that no one else possessed, something that made me different, better, stronger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I heard that they consider it a sure sign that the person is either possessed of low blood or fallen on truly desperate times....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know what possessed me, but something did. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The fireflies reflected off the shiny forest leaves, looking like possessed Christmas lights. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When she says yes and I slip the ring onto her finger, the plane erupts with yelling and applause, and it’s as if all of us are possessed by something we will never understand. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A fever possessed me suddenly, and I felt cold and hot at the same time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Aw, Ma, don’t you-all worry none,” he said, amazed at his own words; he was possessed by a queer, imperious nervous energy. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She also knew Ashton Place possessed a fourth floor, but she had never had cause to visit it, until now. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He had said good-by to caution and stretched himself far beyond any boundaries he ever dreamed he possessed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I’d almost forgotten the old lady with her bright eyes and her maniacal smile, the way she’d suddenly seemed possessed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He was possessed of that cold, cruel sense of purpose that preceded murder. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I who had never owned anything suddenly possessed property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed me one of the two rifles we possessed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The point is, all these gymnasts possessed both power and grace, and it had nothing to do with their race. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z During the ceremony, he would be possessed by Goré’s spirit and would list the things it required to leave Nhamo’s family in peace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her how back in Cuba the nannies used to think I was possessed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Kenny had a history of mental instability—she claimed to be possessed by spells—and she had once even attempted to murder another local attorney. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Emboldened by this good news, I also asked if I could use the one computer that the school possessed to write Caitlin the request that day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They called each other wisdom as well, which Tyrion found almost as annoying as their custom of hinting at the vast secret stores of knowledge that they wanted him to think they possessed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She didn't have as much education as the other young women, but she possessed determination. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Jemmy wondered what had possessed him to refer to Prince Brat as his friend. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z They gathered around the dining table, and Piper explained what had happened at Topeka 32—their conversation with Bacchus, the trap sprung by Gaea, the eidolons that had possessed the boys. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Angelos, a twenty-four-year-old record producer, possessed a weapon—which he did not use or threaten to use—at the time of the sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Michael, the slave in question, had indeed possessed the ability to recite long passages. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had long possessed a house of his own and his own servants, and a garden at the outskirts of the town, by the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't know what possessed me, but I chased after him and begged him to tell me where he had taken my father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He suggested that perhaps the situation had been mishandled, that perhaps I was not possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Quite a lot of dull, ordinary people weren’t ever possessed by anybody. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But he was possessed by a frenzy of fear and rage, and he struggled to get to his feet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the end, however, it was the cows who were responsible for the wood’s isolation, and the cows, through some wisdom they were not wise enough to know that they possessed, were very wise indeed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A territory is only possessed for a moment in time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That sympathy for people my father said she possessed had overcome all obstacles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed Root possessed a genius for envisioning a structure quickly, in its entirety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mother’s conversion to Dad’s philosophy was not total, however, and occasionally she was possessed of her old enthusiasm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When I was forced to resign from the ANC, the organization had to replace me, and no matter what I might have liked, I could no longer wield the authority I once possessed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was staring at me as though he was possessed by a spirit. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Each house consisted of two compartments, and each family at Lebrun’s possessed a compartment for itself, fitted out with all the essential paraphernalia of the bath and whatever other conveniences the owners might desire. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I packed the few things that I possessed, and early one morning we set out on a journey westward to my new residence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, when Esther and Royal and Deborah were dead, and Gabriel was leaving the South, people remembered this sermon and the gaunt, possessed young man who had preached it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He was sometimes possessed of strange rages and would strike out with his walking stick and even smash the furniture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had wanted someone to talk to, not convince me that I was possessed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Roy wasn’t sure what possessed him to wise off to such a violent kid. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She possessed eyes whose gaze I delighted to encounter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They were vocal about the petty individual wrongs they suffered, but they possessed no desire for a knowledge of the picture as a whole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t bad—usually—to be possessed: the Mellower had a shave for storytelling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Crying made his whole body shake wildly, as if he were possessed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z What possessed her to challenge a forest fire? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I swear to you, the boy had to be possessed. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Dumbledore, who after all possessed no magical eye, did not see them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z An elfin impulse possessed Nately and he moaned intentionally the next time there was a lull. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The true-bred pea plants, he noted, possessed distinct traits that were hereditary and variant. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She could only share the qualities she already possessed, and she couldn’t help anyone who wasn’t worthy of being a hero. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He possessed great knowledge, said the believers; he remembered his former lives, he had attained Nirvana and never returned on the cycle, he plunged no more into the troubled stream of forms. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the reason Yakov had possessed me was because he had been chasing after the same atonement I had yearned for all along. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They had saved him from the shadow, indeed, for they did not want him to be possessed by the shadow until he had become a slave of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The idea that Lefty, who shared her eyes and eyebrows, who slept in the bed beside hers, could be possessed by such a desire had never occurred to Desdemona before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Miss Trunchbull possessed none of these qualities and how she ever got her present job was a mystery. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Every cadet possessed a burning desire to be recognized, but never noticed, as his piercing blue eyes evaluated his corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Another time, though, I saw Auguste stop singing as though suddenly possessed and then begin to mime savagely beating someone on the floor, as though with a hammer or hatchet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Turner, feeling a familiar unreality taking hold, could not discount the possibility that the woman was possessed of certain powers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Mom! The elephant is possessed. You really need to wake up!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I’m sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For about half an hour I played the best tennis of my life, played like a man possessed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny muscles in my flank, muscles I hadn’t known I possessed, suddenly made themselves available. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My parents seem to me possessed of great dignity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what possessed me, but I grabbed her wrist, the list of punishments for touching an authority figure running through my head like a skipping CD, each scratch sharper than the next. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Then she intoned, as if she alone possessed this knowledge: “There is an American flag on the moon!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mary helped her son refine the vehicle until they possessed something that could roll down the street with its pilot, as the racers were known, in the drivers seat. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I had lost control of myself and seemed possessed by a sinister force, which made me mindless of my safety, which spurred me toward reckless action, unafraid of death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure Mother would have told every brother, cousin, aunt and uncle the story she had told Erin: that I was possessed, dangerous, taken by the devil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Although he possessed extraordinary reserves of energy, he’d been profligate with those reserves, and by the time he got to Camp Four they were nearly depleted. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And getting possessed hadn’t robbed me of my dignity. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Here within this quiet greenness I possessed the only identity I had ever known, and I was losing it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d need to hire another army of bodyguards.Wealth such as Opium possessed lured criminals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t doing just any dance—he was a man possessed, a man who knows in his heart that he is the greatest dancer on earth. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z But once Jefferson laid it out before him so elegantly in the summer of 1813, Adams at last possessed a target on which to focus his considerable firepower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Washington was an inherently stiff and formal man who cultivated aloofness and possessed distancing mechanisms second to none. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "Whatever could have possessed me to drop the bowl into the fire?" she exclaimed aloud. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The garrulous ferret showed the rats that he possessed a sound knowledge of the principles of fulcrum and leverage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When the strait was at last flooded around 10,000 years ago, Tasmanians and mainland Australians became cut off from each other because neither group possessed watercraft capable of negotiating Bass Strait. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Plainly she was possessed of some fierce evil that would enter these men if they touched her, or me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I maintain that nurture, rather than nature, is the primary molder of personality, but my father possessed a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness, that I recognize in myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed more enthusiastic, more vital than his imperturbable adversary, who possessed a style that was obviously more professional, but at the same time less emotional for the large crowd that filled the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She soon possessed a thick file of nightmare accounts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z With only seventeen days until our deadline, I work through the day and night with a speed and efficiency I didn’t know I possessed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was almost as if her mother were possessed. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t have to throw up every defense I possessed to keep my brain’s wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z None of the black Communists I knew possessed the intellectual capacity to formulate a Trotskyite position in politics. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not seen my grandparents in three years, not since my parents had begun telling the extended family that I was possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jem, Dill, and she would have been bored stiff had not Reverend Moorehead possessed a singular talent for fascinating children. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I thought in a way that he was possessed and that maybe from then on he always would be. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I had ever considered myself, up until that point, as possessed of a meticulous and even over-fastidious disposition. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He possessed an extra vigor, a heightened confidence in himself, a serene capacity for affection which saved him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the fun of it,” began Laurie, who had got a willful fit on him and was possessed to break out of bounds in some way. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham replaced him with Edward Shankland, an engineer from his own firm who possessed a national reputation as a designer of bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Russia already possessed long-range bombers able to fly thousands of miles—enough to reach the US mainland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He felt strange, possessed, or as if he were acting upon a stage in front of a crowd of people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Martials believe that supernatural power comes from spirits of the dead and that only the Augurs are possessed by such spirits. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Someone was demonstrating something that did something in the kitchen, and replaced a dozen other kitchen utensils, none of which Shadow possessed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Sure, he’d been possessed at the time; but still Mars demanded vengeance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He tried to make his face look old but had no idea which expression he possessed made him look the oldest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Family lore had it that he possessed unexplained skills and senses, that his nimble hands could spirit away afflictions in both humans and animals. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a self-confidence about her that I never possessed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The toxic river water was still possessed of its death-dealing power after passing more than 200 miles downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There are sights there that he has not forgotten, because he never possessed them—perplexing, yet lost to him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Without word, without hesitation, Jinny turned, crossed the small room, and kicked the door open with a bare foot and strength she had no idea she possessed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If my father had possessed the words, he would have said the whole enterprise was bad hubris. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was bewildered by the seeming madness that possessed him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But this does not mean that science has progressed as a result of the work of a string of irreplaceable geniuses possessed of a special insight into how the world works. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As a young man, I was unlike McCandless in many important regards; most notably, I possessed neither his intellect nor his lofty ideals. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder and spoke to her, the woman seemed to echo the thought which was ever in Edna’s mind; or, better, the feeling which constantly possessed her. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z All at once, Lady Constance resumed speaking in her customary sweet tone, as if it were the only voice she possessed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Dasch possessed good manners and spoke eloquently, seemingly unaware that he often touched his nose or forehead with his index finger when he talked. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I began to laugh, too, because my uncle was trying to say something and he was so possessed with laughter that he couldn’t say a complete word without launching into another fit of laughter. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She warned me not to come home expecting to have the things my friends possessed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bill knew that Grammer, whom the Osage Chief called the “county’s most notorious character,” possessed secrets and controlled an unseen world. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Don’t know what possessed me to follow my Jimmy to this godforsaken colony.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at that young age, Luna possessed a mechanical mind, and was able to construct little machines that whirred and ticked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Whatever possessed us, when we were in love, has departed. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was truly dumbfounded by this deep fury that possessed her whenever she looked at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The most striking examples of variation involved flies collected from the same region that possessed two radically different configurations of the same genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Even Uncle Kufa hadn’t possessed anything that fine, and it seemed a shame to leave it behind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t stop reading him, he said, because it had become increasingly obvious to him that Freud had possessed an almost uncanny insight into the nature of man. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I had ill-judged him, he was neither hard nor sardonic, he was already my friend of many years, the brother I had never possessed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z By now Will’s exhaustion had been wiped out, He was wide awake and possessed by wonder. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The can jiggled and danced, as though possessed by a ghost. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z People possessed by demons would start running up and down the aisles like madmen, screaming in tongues. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She used muscles she hadn’t known she possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After 1808, Congress possessed the authority to do what it wished; then all constitutional restraints would lapse. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In fact, he sometimes envied his neighbors whatever it was some of them still possessed—call it cultural integrity—that he had mostly turned his back on by accepting the sheriff s job. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed them all and reveled in his possession. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Both were fair complexioned and slenderly made; both possessed faces full of distinction and intelligence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Lawson was an opportunist, and although he was soft-spoken and possessed Old World manners, his invitation wasn’t proffered completely out of courtesy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I take it on faith that computers, although lacking souls, are possessed of a kind of intelligence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This new adversary possessed the gift she’d always craved, and up against it, she was nothing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The two major contestants for the presidency in 1796, then, not only possessed impeccable revolutionary credentials; they had also earned their fame as a team. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If he had possessed the steel nerves not to become rattled in public before, now he was: “I’ve reached the end of my rope!” he shouted to the audience of five hundred. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not the first woman on earth to have seen her daughters possessed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke had been twisted and evil long before Kronos possessed him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Out in front, the Japanese, still rowing like demons possessed, stretched their lead over the British to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “For shame! Superstitious old man! He’s a little boy! He’s not possessed!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As a baby, even as a little girl, I possessed an awkward, extravagant beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When I saw it that night, as he wound it and arranged it on the coffee table, an uneasiness possessed me; life, I realized, was being lived in Dacca first. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But she was stymied when she tried to recall the urgency of that moment, the grain of the feeling that possessed her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city’s newspapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The minute they let their guard down—boom!—he possessed them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an intense and brilliant young man who possessed a great positional sense. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He possessed a flinty self-confidence that protected him like a shell from the world’s assaults. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once it had lost the head start that it had enjoyed thanks to its locally available concentration of domesticable wild plants and animals, the Fertile Crescent possessed no further compelling geographic advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They possessed a sense of kinetics that translated to the stage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Frodo and his companions huddled round the fire, wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed; but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She possessed exceptional if not unique qualities for serving as an astronaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “I did ask something of Miss Havisham, however, sir. I asked her to give me some information relative to her adopted daughter, and she gave me all she possessed.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z All this happy freedom and confidence passed away, of course, as they either grew sober or got drunk, but while it lasted it was like being possessed by a power greater than themselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has lost his reason and is possessed by his father’s demon,” I said in amazement. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was as though she were possessed by some evil spirit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It had more windows on one wall than the entire village of Zmeyreka possessed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She looked like she was possessed by something as ferocious as the wolves themselves, and Kaede was chilled by the expression on her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Working without walls meant that Min possessed great skill and the confidence to match it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “I only wondered if he possessed true sensitivity, as some men of great might, as you know, do not. For example, I wonder: is he capable of tears?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I was startled, convinced my tutor possessed the power to scry the thoughts of mind and heart. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He couldn’t push the minds of the dead as he could the living, but he could use all the tools of flattery and persuasion he possessed, for the dead are not immune to either. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Like a smart monkey, Colin possessed an extensive vocabulary, but very little grammar. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Instead, he possessed a mind capable of tinkering with things just enough to make them impossibly confusing and himself so dissatisfied with his own intellectual inadequacies that he would never be happy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Our machine possessed one very special feature which I don’t think you see on the cars of today. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had nothing in the bank, and possessed no collateral, unless you counted the tiny trailer he and his family crowded into. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z What had possessed her to accept the apprenticeship? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She had always seemed younger than the other mothers, partly because of her size, but also because her face possessed a childlike quality. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z While San Franciscans were reading his obituary in several papers, the decidedly undead Neves rode like a man possessed, finishing second or third on all five of his mounts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one is getting possessed,” the woman snapped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It’s because he possessed the kind of savvy that allowed him to get what he wanted from the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Octavia possessed all of the qualities Romans looked for in the perfect wife. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It was a mystery once more, as at the eviction I had uttered words that had possessed me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I must have been possessed by the devil!” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, my stomach started hiccuping again, jumping around like I was possessed by something nasty. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There were seven or eight people on the island who possessed the right to give names. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The possessed Taser ball lashed out with its tendrils and sent another shock through Hazel and Frank. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z First Ambuya had accused the doctor of making things up, and now she said Aunt Chipo had pretended to be possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z C. P. Ellis: hurting and hurtful, possessed of all the tedious, creaking, accumulated hatreds of the South, and yet guileless and—Riddick believed—essentially honorable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere, deep down inside, each of them grasped at shreds of will and strength they did not know they possessed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Not in Marinn or the Tribal deserts, not even beyond the Empire, where woad-coated Barbarians danced beneath starlight for days, as if possessed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But white men with far more political power than that possessed by the Nation of Islam movement have been advocating exactly this, in effect, for generations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Harry,” she said, crouching down in front of him and using the kind of voice he associated with visiting the very sick, “you don’t think you’ve been possessed, do you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The men who were working along the rows felt possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible desire to weep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I feel possessed as I lunge for the pad and flip the pages until I find him, that final version. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A “smooth” strain possessed a slippery, sugary coat on the cell surface and could escape the immune system with newtlike deftness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In retrospect, Franklin’s final gesture at leadership served to solidify his historic reputation as a man who possessed in his bones a feeling for the future. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In some contradictory way grief seemed to have etched on Mercy’s thin face a beauty it had never possessed. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Had her own rash performance only served to cheat the child of the one toy she possessed? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It freaks him out so much more to think he was possessed by a girl, not a guy. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He came from the water and the marsh possessed by a stern angel that burned in the blood around his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The anger which had possessed him yesterday flared up again. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z And he dances in the dust like a thing possessed. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She worked as though possessed, and maybe she was possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyhow, you were going to be possessed by the Big- Head Spirit tonight,” yelled the Baboon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, for all their similarities, had possessed a majesty she didn’t, and a cruelty, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Most duels lasted no longer than a minute or two, one person quickly proving himself more clever or possessed of a stronger will. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If anything, she possessed him in death in a way that she never had while he was alive. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He says he was possessed, but only for one day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z By analyzing families that possessed intergenerational histories of mental illness, the study found striking evidence that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia shared a strong genetic link. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The girls never talked of their feelings; none of them possessed the insight or the emotional equipment to understand themselves or others. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that she possessed the two great gifts: she was smart and she got the breaks— and you couldn’t want no better than that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The one holding me got stung right on the tip of his nose, and he hollered and flapped his arms as if possessed by demons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Confused, the sheepherder invoked Saint Anthony’s aid, even though that saint possessed nowhere near Santa Inez’s power when it came to locating lost pets. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Most were armed with Imperial gold weapons—more Imperial gold than the entire Twelfth Legion possessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The grief that had possessed him since Dumbledore’s death felt different now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As if possessed by a will of their own, my arms reach for her neck and my hands close around her throat, squeezing hard. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes possessed Julia now as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in his possession. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I went to him and put my hand on his shoulder with all the tenderness I possessed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z This quality is possessed by some chemicals of the chlorinated hydrocarbon group and by others of the organophosphorus group, all synthetically produced, as well as by certain naturally occurring substances. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Does this mean all that drivel about the Augurs being possessed by spirits of the dead is true? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He’d stand on the pulpit, handkerchief in hand, wrestling with the Bible verses like a man possessed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I say to Tom as we head to football practice, “did you hear about that kid in Monroeville who says he was possessed by the devil?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “How do you know that? What possessed you to bring me here?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But for now, something simpler possessed his heart, something bright and hard and unshakable: vengeance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She had just met a small girl who possessed, or so it seemed to her, quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Rita became a prizewinning math student, and Kuda, to no one’s surprise, was possessed by his great-great-grand- uncle, a famous fighter pilot, and was taught military strategy from the inside out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to do this?” she asked. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Rowan didn’t know what possessed him to do what he did next. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Chapter 1, like Chapter 3, had not actually told him anything that he did not know; it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He set himself to texting and telephoning people, and he talked to everyone with an extreme gentleness Jule hadn’t known he possessed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Whatever possessed him to do such a thing without saying a word?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z My phone rings, and I almost drop it like it’s possessed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z They moved through her, then: ghost hands lent her strength that she no longer possessed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He held out the prospect of becoming part of something larger than themselves, of finding in themselves something they did not yet know they possessed, of growing from boyhood to manhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And worse, somewhere, circling and flitting around that dread, was another awful feeling: nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Suddenly the terrible, dark fear that had possessed me was gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Whether the Chicago police even possessed that kind of talent was open to question. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to tell those stories about my saddle, and the hats and boots, and all the rest of it?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t start World War Three. I just got possessed by an evil spirit. That’s a relief!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The black wolf also possessed wisdom, she had observed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to go in there with an open flame?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were two things the factory manager possessed a morbid fear of: insects and stolen chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z And I thought maybe the doctor was mistaken, my parents were mistaken, and now they had taken Lynn away when she still possessed a small spark of life in her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The man was the head of the household, and his wife, along with everything she possessed, was his property. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Now what could have possessed Merlyn to send you to me?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z While Kit resorted to ingenious tricks, Mercy possessed the patience. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His senses subconsciously savored the clatter of rats and the smell of old paper and wood and the possessed feeling that his pair of baggy Levy Pants gave him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me that even the dead possessed HaShem’s sanctity and divine beauty and that no manner of defilement could take that away. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z After having been possessed by an eidolon three days ago, he didn’t appreciate the feeling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her only child’s wedding—die culmination of all she had been, thought or done in this world— had dragged from her energy and stamina even die did not know she possessed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I had to show the staff that I possessed native intelligence but not so great a one or of a certain kind that it impeded my sense of duty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But now I possessed a new piece of information—the key was somewhere in Sector Seven. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Out of friendship for you, they would have given up all they valued; indeed, all they possessed.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Having possessed Esther, the carnal man awoke, seeing the possibility of conquest everywhere. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The answer, he said, was that he must have been possessed by a demon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z True, a couple of caveats were thrown in, but these were clearly meant to suggest that Durham, for all its achievements, still possessed a sense of humility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And there’s a man whose son killed himself, who believes that the son must have been possessed by real demons, rather than fighting the more metaphorical ones inside. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And it was taboo because, more than any other controversy, it possessed the political potential to destroy the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Believe that, too, for driver ants are possessed, collectively, of the size and influence of a Biblical plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “But one does not parade the fact that one is All-Knowing. I frequently act as though 1 am not possessed of the Inner Eye, so as not to make others nervous.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “I’ll try not to, but I’m always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her. It’s my doom, and I can’t help it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the host is possessed by a life form that is attempting to convert the host into itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing depressed him more than the moments in which he contrasted his current mental powers with what he had formerly possessed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z What he was saying possessed an intrinsic logic which he had no means of halting; it had to grind to its own conclusion. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole is a paradigm, a human institution possessed of a life of its own, self-regenerating, touched all around by human meddle but constantly improved, embellished by it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a time when a girl like Cathy would have been called possessed by the devil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I have a kind of power I never knew I possessed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Caleb, the owner of the Drift, possessed a notoriously sour disposition; Sam had a reputation as the barkeep who enjoyed conversation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The beauty I possessed as a baby only increased as I grew into a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t know whether they were injured or possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A bowl of roses in a drawing-room had a depth of colour and scent they had not possessed in the open. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Why does he train like a demon possessed? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I slid the notebook to the other side of the table like it was possessed, leaned back in my chair, and yanked the refrigerator door open. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z What should he do with the carton of foulness he now possessed? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what possessed me,” she said, more in her old tone. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone knew he was possessed by the spirit of the dead wife. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was never able to believe that human beings had no divine genesis, and he always believed that humans possessed a soul. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed grand—some would say grandiose—spiritual ambitions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “If this is Yakov’s dybbuk, why do you think he possessed you?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These were the first magic items my avatar had ever possessed, and they made me feel unstoppable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Their faces possessed the power of evoking in me a million memories that I longed to forget, and instead of my leaving drawing me to them in communion, it had flung me forever beyond them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He could have bid anonymously, but he obviously wanted the world to know who now possessed the artifact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He believed that all human beings possessed this ability, particularly his own family, and that if it did not function well it was simply due to a lack of training. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Cape of South Africa the arriving Europeans found not only Khoi hunter-gatherers but also Khoi herders who already possessed only domestic animals, not crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Holding his large hands up, pumping his knees high, prancing, his great red beard flapping, his two-pointed hat bobbing this way and that, the hat bells jingling, he was like one possessed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she was possessed by an intoxicating—and frightening—sense of power. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At least the possessed manatee dudes were on the other side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The windows were almost completely fogged up, and they got even worse as I continued to act like I’d been possessed by demons. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z With a lack of team spirit, some Wolverettes maintained that I possessed no coordination whatsoever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You see, spirit mediums are ordinary men and women when they’re not being possessed. A few of them fake messages when they can’t manage a real one.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a sliver of man’s knowledge I was certain he possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Citra wasn’t sure what possessed her to bring up the question she had been asked at conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The Welsh could not get beyond the outer wall of the castle, and the English inside could not tell what strength the enemy possessed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z As one of her great-aunts had written about her when she was a little girl, she possessed “so much affection in her nature as will secure her from selfishness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed an uncanny knack for winning the big races, the ones that really counted. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For Pandora, like all women, was possessed of a lively curiosity. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say that the prince is possessed with love for a woman who is unworthy of him.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to give him signed checks?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem likely that anyone would venture into the acacia thicket and, fortunately, the village had possessed only a single boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Why was there no hemoglobin in his eye or his skin—even though eye cells and skin cells and, indeed, every cell in the human body possessed identical copies of the same gene? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Most claim to have been possessed for a time much longer than a single day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He seldom opened a book and never did any homework, but he managed to survive because he possessed a native and cunning intelligence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was coming back into possession of himself; for the past three minutes it seemed he had been under a strange spell, possessed by a force which he hated, but which he had to obey. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I did really well. I played better than I ever have in my life. It was like I was possessed.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he had lost them, he possessed none of them any more, neither fasting, nor waiting, nor thinking. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I was possessed by the devil, too,” another guy says. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z So now the Sixers were the only ones who possessed that clue. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Twining his hands in her hair, he kissed her as if possessed, and they tumbled into the flowers, their bodies hidden in the tall grass. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Hindsight permits us to listen to the debate of 1790 with knowledge that none of the participants possessed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder and spoke to her, the woman seemed to echo the thought which was ever in Edna’s mind, or, better, the feeling which constantly possessed her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Ashe played like a man possessed; and had Connors not been at his best, Ashe would have been crowned the champion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Boston, however, Holmes had discovered that she possessed other winning attributes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After we came down from the trees, we evolved an upright posture; our hands were free; we possessed excellent binocular vision—we had acquired many of the preconditions for making tools. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was during these night rides with his father that the feeling of what it was like to be an adult often possessed Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tense, possessed, fearful that if he slowed or paused he might lose the courage or the momentum he needed to get out. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Spain possessed it, while the Inca Empire did not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Being possessed continually by this thought of his land, Wang Lung saw as in a dream the things that happened about him in the city every day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Otherwise, I thought she possessed the most exquisite control over the muscles of her face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately Jackson is not possessed of such calm and reasoned logic. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Worst of all was the realization that she had been possessed by the spirit of a witch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing that had devoured Skiorh's mind and possessed his flesh made the body take a step towards Ged, and the arms came groping out towards him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In the first encounter, we exchanged fire with a white man of the house, son or servant, possessed of a pistol and fowling-piece. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of nightmare; I felt the fiend’s grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Either that, or the spirits that possessed the boys had also made them extra resilient. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His gestures were theatrical and wild, generated by an animal impatience that possessed his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan was waiting for me and he said crossly: “You look like a corpse. Whatever possessed you to stay so long?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And simply because of that fact, he possessed a certain dignity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The blacks of their eyes seemed almost natural, not like they were possessed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z How it was rumored that the boy carver was enchanted or possibly possessed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In the Dark Ages my parents would have sent for an exorcist, because I was clearly possessed by evil spirits, or maybe even the Devil himself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Just once in his life he had possessed—after the event: that was what counted—concrete, unmistakable evidence of an act of falsification. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Colonel Smith had indeed marched on to Concord, possessed the town, destroyed such military stores as had not yet been hidden. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His filthy little friends told him there was a place, deep in an Albanian forest, that they avoided, where small animals like themselves had met their deaths by a dark shadow that possessed them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His chin went up instead of down, and there was a glint in his eye that he had not possessed when he had worn a bowler hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A part of my mind I had no idea I possessed until that moment took over and, like a great general, called all to order. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “He could have been possessed at night!” the rabbi replies. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact, they were welcomed as the Tallises began to understand that the baby of the family possessed a strange mind and a facility with words. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It turns out that it, and especially its Fertile Crescent portion, possessed at least five advantages over other Mediterranean zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now that the artifact’s sole power had been used, it no longer possessed any magical properties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This opened wide vistas of scenes and locales that I did not so much visit in my reading, but rather possessed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The snow-covered mountain remained, without regard to titles of ownership or the white ranchers who thought they possessed it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he was finding it almost impossible to do either, so scrambled were his powers of performance by the compulsive need for haste that invariably possessed him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The entire thrust of the colonists’ justification for independence was to reject that designation on the grounds that they possessed all the rights of British citizens. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was Lillian who began to laugh and it spread to her children and possessed them, a laughter one part hysteria and one part relief. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were also accused of stealing the household items and tools they possessed, because supposedly such items should belong only to white people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Ancient farmers might seem to us dirt poor, but a typical family possessed more artefacts than an entire forager tribe. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Reck could read and write, and he was possessed of enough base cunning to have hidden an account of what they'd done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Except for a few items picked up at an army PX, the clothes I still possessed had been chosen for a subsequent visit to the Italian Alps. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was bitterly cold and there was ice on the ground, as during the days when he had first possessed her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He possessed a secret treasure that had come to him long ages ago, when he still lived in the light: a ring of gold that made its wearer invisible. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Was that Grace Poole? and is she possessed with a devil?” thought I. Impossible now to remain longer by myself: I must go to Mrs. Fairfax. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Your companion is not one who is possessed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They lost the few manners they possessed and used the table linens for blowing their noses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was more beloved, or possessed of more authority, and so no one was more dangerous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My father was a volatile, extremely complicated person, possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She summoned the last seed of strength she carried within her, which she had not known she possessed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Though he possessed gifts on a par with his most consummate peers, Mr. Bland never achieved the popular acclaim enjoyed by contemporaries like Ray Charles and B. B. King. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T06:30:33Z Though she has her moments of rage and tears, her Harper is possessed of a cool, self-surprising detachment that paradoxically burns hotter and cuts deeper than all-out hysteria would. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z Blackman’s family called her an “adored mother and grandmother” who possessed “an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess”. Honor Blackman, James Bond's Pussy Galore, dies aged 94 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Helm might have also possessed, he writes, “a country-boy inferiority complex.” Robbie Robertson of the Band Tells All in ‘Testimony’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Since Viacom has been tight with option grants and has rules for awarding them, the revelation that Naylor possessed the stock raises questions about corporate governance. The elderly media mogul and the bisexual rockers 2010-07-26T05:14:00Z Sometimes his work reflected the mix of exultation and terror expressed by the possessed in religious rituals. 50 great moments in jazz: The shortlived cry of Albert Ayler 2010-09-27T16:53:00Z According to SS chief Heinrich Himmler, perhaps the most ardent Nazi occultist, these Ur-Aryans possessed paranormal powers and extraordinary weapons, one dimly recalled as Thor’s thunder hammer. It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z It culminated in a performance of “Don Quixote” that possessed a certain vintage charm, yet despite moments of panache — especially among the men — it was formulaic, as if rendered by a paint-by-numbers kit. Review | As Cuba enters the post-Castro era, its ballet company seems stuck in the past 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Lowry, the sensible night-school-trained amateur artist in search of a subject, was overtaken – possessed would be a better word – by an unconscious force far bigger than either the man or his mission-statement. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z It would be interesting to know what Mr. Kramer — acerbic, funny and, by the evidence of the film, a man not possessed of a great deal of sentimentality — feels about the bland optimism of #lovewins. Review: ‘Larry Kramer in Love & Anger,’ Portrait of the Rebel as Gay Activist 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z By the end she possessed that throaty voice that Tom Wolfe later called “the New York Social Baritone.” How Lauren Bacall Got to Dine with President Clinton at a TIME Gala 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Two questions bubbled at the back of my skull, disturbing the weird calm that had possessed me all morning: Who was this man, this artist? I love a rapist’s artwork: A brutal crime, a delicate work 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z They possessed a deep knowledge of their subject. The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City’s streets 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z "Non-figurative imagery possessed for me," he wrote, "the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning." John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z I share his obsessive need to make art, to create something from anything, from everything: He was possessed by a stubborn spirit to compulsively make art, as a form of exorcism. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z West, possessed of a deep, rumbling voice and a finely chiseled face, was a perfect choice to portray the Caped Crusader in the 1966-68 TV series. Adam West, Known for Playing Batman on TV, Dies at 88 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z It provides little new insight into what possessed Citigroup to go so far off the rails a decade ago and why it was not just allowed to dissolve like Lehman Brothers. How Citigroup Escaped Financial Disaster in 2008 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Collections, their second effort, mislays what little charm possessed, tilting at the big pop statement in uneven bursts. Delphic: Collections – review 2013-01-27T00:05:51Z Gardam seems like one of the least possessed people it is possible to imagine; she is calm, thoughtful, measured. Jane Gardam 2011-01-10T08:00:00Z Finn plays every instrument on his recent second album, Fomo, and takes to the stage tonight like a man possessed. Liam Finn ? review 2011-07-22T17:42:08Z The juxtaposition threw intriguing light on the feeling for tone-color possessed by a composer too often accused of lacking it. At chamber-music fest, program and performance in harmony 2013-01-22T18:54:33Z This is what I wanted, to battle with a seasoned boxer of equal size and weight, but not necessarily with the same skills that I possessed. Billy Moore’s first Muay Thai “Fight Night” in Thailand 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The allegory was never subtle: the privileged classes had wisdom and goodness in abundance and alone possessed the tools to bash the Father of Lies and his acolytes, aka Harold Wilson and the socialists. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Jack Lowden's sensitively played Eric Liddell – a mix of ordinary and extraordinary – is similarly possessed yet differently driven: a devout athlete, the son of a Scottish missionary, who runs in God's name. Chariots of Fire; Posh; Children's Children – review 2012-05-26T23:10:02Z But while “the author often shared the sorrow of his characters,” Mr. Slawenski adds, “he rarely possessed their cures” himself. Books of The Times: Peering Into A Reclusive Life 2011-02-10T15:17:01Z Undoubtedly he possessed real talent and imagination – at least in contrast to the other Wyeths, judging from the show. Why middlebrow Americana will always beat 'good' British art 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z For the rest of my childhood, no one in the family possessed a camera, so I have very few photographs of myself before art college. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z Neanderthals, they posit, were empathetic; possessed at least some language; were companionable; strongly attached to family; able but not skillful at planning ahead; and demonstrated impressive mechanical skills. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z When Gomez is singing and playing his vihuela for a passionate crowd that is dancing and singing along with him, he seems possessed by a kind of rapture. Why mariachi music matters in the age of Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The Jesus who publicly disowns his mother and siblings, as we see in one crucial scene, is a man possessed, an unfathomable messiah. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z A woman from Chicago was helping staff a school for autistic children, who are sometimes considered possessed by spirits. Exotic spottings in the wild of Tanzania She adds that Taylor "denied ever having possessed rough diamonds and the evidence clearly contradicts his testimony on this central issue." Taylor prosecutors want Naomi Campbell to testify 2010-05-20T17:19:00Z As he made his way through the bowels of the prison, slicing, grunting and screaming his way through several walkers, it was the perfect rendering of a man possessed. The Walking Dead Watch: Pulling Back the Curtain 2012-11-12T14:00:32Z Lover of the Light finds him behind a full drumkit, bashing away as though possessed, while Ben Lovett virtually knocks his mic stand off the stage by throwing violent shapes with his keyboard. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z “This is Means’s most self-reflective and self-reflexive book to date,” Justin Taylor writes in his review, “both sweeping and narrow, panoramic and fragmentary, possessed … by ‘a gloriously full understanding … fractured to shards.’ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “Dying” is bracing and beautiful, possessed of an extraordinary intellectual and moral rigor. ‘Dying: A Memoir’ Is a Bracing Illumination of Terminal Illness 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The Northern Ireland conflict was difficult enough to understand while it was happening, but it always possessed a broader symbolic importance than its modest scale demanded. Inside the Troubles of “’71″: This Belfast war thriller is (almost) an Iraq war movie in disguise 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z There are eerie portraits of spooky people, like the art from a possessed castle in a Hammer Film. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Their presence was soothing, and when sunlight streamed down through the water, the room suddenly possessed the childhood magic of an under-the-blanket fort. The Getaway: This Is Las Vegas? 2013-11-29T18:29:41Z He possessed the demeanor of a man whose mind has been taxed, if not his body. Perspective | Pictures of Robert Mueller tell the story of a man who is finally free 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “The feeling comes so fast, and I cannot control it,” Florence Welch wails as if possessed, but she eventually finds her catharsis in the music itself: “For a moment, when I’m dancing, I am free.” Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Rather, the structures are possessed of an effortless elasticity, expanding and contracting to fit the stories these characters are compelled to tell. Nicole Krauss’s Stories Cross Boundaries of Geography and Convention 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z He was a genius and he was a genius in several ways, and one genius that he possessed besides his musical genius was a genius for making himself dislikable. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z However, the Ministry of Magic’s entire store of Time-Turners — including the one Hermione once possessed — is eventually destroyed during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in The Order of the Phoenix. The Trouble With Time Travel in the Harry Potter Universe 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Tyson didn’t back down, but the hair controversy taught her that, as an actress of color, she possessed power and responsibility as a symbol, role model and bridge between communities. Cicely Tyson: A pioneer stretches her acting muscles in a new career chapter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “Ricordanza,” an isolated moment of peace, possessed a quiet radiance, its dappled rolls glowing with the faintest of dwindling light. Daniil Trifonov and Yuja Wang Play at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Freire, the critic continued, possessed “one of the biggest natural talents for the keyboard that I have ever heard.” Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Still, like Mr. Glover, she felt possessed by a “whippet demon” that was forcing her to keep loading and inhaling canisters. Nitrous Nation 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z But the character had depths: He accompanied his grandmother to church, possessed an enviable knowledge of Greek mythology and could outwit a seasoned lawyer on the stand. How Michael K. Williams Made Omar Little His Own on ‘The Wire’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Both were power dressers, though possessed of very different physiques. Art Review: How the Other Half Dressed 2010-09-16T21:44:00Z For Chris, America isn’t just a homeland and a sense of self; it’s an idea, and Eastwood dramatizes the mounting nightmare of a man of unique talent who is increasingly possessed by that idea. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z In his 1726 translation of “The Odyssey,” Alexander Pope claimed that Circe possessed an “adamantine heart,” but Miller finds the goddess’s affections wounded, complicated and capable of extraordinary sympathy. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z But Lawrence possessed the bitter knowledge born of his own experience: that originality and truth will always meet with rejection by the common mind. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z “I swear to God, Ethel Cain, like, possessed me,” she said. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z But there were times when her face itself — mobile, sensuous, possessed of changing characters and emotion, and supremely capable too of glorious repose — became the show. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z All writers at some time think they’re a fraud, that the talent they thought they possessed is just an illusion — probably because, for the majority, it is. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Married now but disillusioned with her husband, she’s up from Garland, Tex., for her brother’s wedding, and susceptible to the passion that once possessed her and Bill. Theater Review: Emily Schwend’s ‘Take Me Back,’ at Walkerspace 2014-03-09T21:38:37Z No one in this book is Forsterishly “round”; characters lack agency; they are created or possessed or curiously always themselves. A Mystical Healer, Her Ailing Crush and the Desire That Undoes Them Both 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Or, if viewed from another perspective, it’s the tale of a snowman possessed by a demonic hat. It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Yet “Revolt” teems with the same anarchic fury that possessed Jimmy Porter and the same frustrated awareness that there are no easy fixes for an unsatisfactory social system. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z What’s happened, as fans of the original will remember, is that Cooper has been possessed by the demon spirit Bob, who was Laura’s murderer. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z I was able to help usher additional papers belonging to Carson into the collections, including some unpublished work that he possessed by Raymond Carver, whom he had known before Carver’s own untimely death. Ciaran Carson’s Urgent, Hopeful, Final Lines 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z As an adult, Brown was “needy” in her love relationships, Gary writes, and possessed of a desperate, almost childlike desire to please. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z If he ever told anyone what possessed him to acquire it, the report never got to me. The City at the Bottom of the Sea 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But as the first post-Ferguson film to deal with issues of racism, poverty and weaponry in contemporary America, it’s an undeniably vital addition to a season dominated by films possessed by the past. Black films matter: why Chi-Raq and Beast of No Nation are game-changers 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It also possessed an undeniably romantic atmosphere, in which students and teachers were equals, eating, living and socializing together. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Prosecutors say her testimony will support their contention that Taylor lied when he testified that he never possessed so-called blood diamonds, those mined in a war zone where the proceeds finance an insurgency. Taylor seeks delay in Naomi Cambell testimony 2010-08-02T15:52:00Z “They are a stigma and recall times when it was thought those with a disorder were possessed by the devil,” she told The Edmonton Journal. Margot Kidder’s Death Was a Suicide, Coroner Says 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z "This will the largest audience to witness an Emmys period. Both in person and around the world," he declared with more certitude than he ever possessed. Stephen Colbert and Sean Spicer Just Pulled Off the Perfect Trump Joke at the Emmys 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Gould was possessed with a philosophical vision of music. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile Paul speaks of his belief like a man possessed, basking in self importance and yet impervious to his older sister's impassioned entreaties to be set free. Binoche plays tragic sculptress Claudel in new film 2013-02-13T10:32:29Z Dogs were loyal to humans, he said; cats were possessed of ingratitude. Paw and order: Dormie, the dog who went on trial for cat murder 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z They are often, not always, possessed of a variety of privilege that has taught them, deliberately and inadvertently, that their voices matter. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z “Jonathan earned worldwide acclaim as a food critic, but he possessed the soul of a poet whose words helped readers everywhere understand the history and culture of our city.” Jonathan Gold, first restaurant critic to win a Pulitzer, dies aged 57 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z While Braun’s exact brand of awkwardness doesn’t quite match the stumbling, yet unearned air of superiority that Robert possessed in the original story, he does manage to be imposing while also looking a little lost. ‘Cat Person’ Review: A Viral Short Story Padded for the Big Screen 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Her tone was scratchy and possessed in fiendish runs, leaps and double and triple stops. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Comes to Town, Megawatt Appeal on Display 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z You just get possessed by the spirit of carnival. Notting Hill carnival: fraught with risk, but the show goes on 2011-08-19T16:55:04Z This type of exorcism is not for those considered to be acutely possessed. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z But his life was also filled with wonder, and living it required courage and fortitude, qualities he possessed in great abundance. 'The Short and Tragic Life' explores class, race amid struggle and wonder 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z When asked if getting married would hasten a decision to retire, Mr. Davis said he still possessed the skills that won him a U.S. A Master of the Half Pipe Plants His Feet at the Altar 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Performing exorcisms, one of which resulted in the death of a possessed boy. On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Some claimed that people were afraid of them and others said they possessed a certain kind of magic. Ethiopia: sounds of the present, past and future 2012-11-09T10:22:03Z He was tall, and lean, and possessed of a calm energy that seemed to think better than to make itself too apparent. Chris Marker's vision will live on 2012-08-06T09:03:04Z Abruptly, these two yuppies seem to lose the little personal warmth they possessed. ‘The Václav Havel Project’ heads to Prague Fringe Festival There was a time when any right that women possessed was held in the hands of white men. Perspective | Women are expected to swing this election — because, of course, we expect them to do everything 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z She tells the story of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s struggle to publish through the lens of their relationship with their brother Branwell, possessed of lesser gifts and greater expectations. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It centers around two parents who are forced to investigate if their child is possessed by evil spirits. Box Office: 'Lego Movie 2' falls short with $34 million debut 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z But this triumphant feeling was an illusion, an act of rebellion that duped me into believing that I possessed control. The Nas generation of scholars: Finally, a Grammy for the hip hop artist who led me to liberation 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z It sounded like an old song becoming possessed by the future. Perspective | Jason Moran is making jazz history. Don’t miss it. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Having lost so much already, the athletes seemed possessed by the need not to lose anything else. | 'Monogamy': Cheating on His Fianc?e With a Camera 2011-03-11T01:49:09Z Yet this glowing powerhouse can be rivetingly muted, subtly eloquent, possessed of marvelous stillness. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z As a result, his real story remains only half-told: the tragedy of a man possessed by certainty. The Professor of Truth by James Robertson – review 2013-06-08T14:00:01Z But about halfway through, I realized I don’t even like the Beatles, so what possessed me to want to do that? Spiritualized's Jason Pierce hates making records, brilliant as they are 2012-04-26T21:34:00Z Baptiste told me that he was thinking of a relative who was believed to be mentally ill, or, alternatively, possessed by a spirit. A Young Artist Charts the Journey from “Haiti to Hood” 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z His disease is acting through him, as if he were possessed by a demon that is also his double. ‘Ben Is Back’ Review: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In her hands, the possessed become bug-eyed, skeletal zombies as difficult to subdue as teenage heroines in dystopian movie franchises. In ‘Asmodexia,’ Evil Infects Souls Like a Plague 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z My mother, being a prized possession of mine, and vice versa; and then me being possessed by her spirit. Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could' 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z Her body looks ordinary, and also possessed; something nightmarish has just happened, or is about to. The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z At the end it’s revealed that Pat wasn’t so much the creator of the preternatural storm but probably just a host possessed by it. Raising Dion – the superpowers and supertwists: discuss with spoilers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He’s glibly self-absorbed; she’s enraptured, possessed by a drive beyond her control. Obsession, Unspoken and Unacknowledged: ‘Letter From an Unknown Woman’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z He also disputed the magazine's assertion that it possessed a video of the shoot that would prove the photos were real. Pakistan actress sues over nude magazine photo 2011-12-05T12:24:13Z When one sporting publisher realized that “hunting stories — hunters pitted against elusive, dangerous animals in forbidding terrain — possessed unique narrative power,” as Dray writes, the hook-and-bullet genre was born. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “And you just wonder: what on earth possessed them to do that?” 'They were not born evil': inside a troubling film on why people kill 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “It’s as if we are possessed by a spirit — like in a strange horror film.” Books of The Times: Tash Aw’s ‘Five Star Billionaire’ Captures China’s Changes 2013-08-01T20:48:21Z The boys actually think he’s possessed, by a dybbuk in the guise of their mother’s ghost. ‘To Dust’ Review: Death, Decay and Grief Wrapped in a Buddy Movie 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It was named by my grandfather, who was possessed of a wicked sense of humour that tended towards the scatological. Family life 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z Artists like Seurat and Gauguin searched for an art that owed nothing to the stale models of academicism but possessed the substance and authority that Impressionism had let fall away. La Vie en Rose 2010-02-18T17:35:00Z Philip Roth is neither Shakespeare nor Wilde, but he has always possessed the knack of confounding his audience. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z It evidently possessed the secret to reconciling psychic conflicts that constantly vex the West: between hedonism and asceticism, reason and emotion, and the cosmic and the terrestrial. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z He possessed, the critic wrote, “a warm, direct and lyrical voice projected with complete honesty and lack of pretension.” Jerry Vale, crooner of the 1950s and '60s, dies at 83 They possessed impeccable manners, airy elegance and a touch of royal remove. A last look at the Joffrey Ballet’s soon-to-be-retired ‘Nutcracker’ 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But upon learning that Neruda had two other homes that he and Matilde occupied — simultaneously — over the last 20 years of his lifetime, I became a woman possessed. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Still, he said he didn’t want people to perceive the magazine as being “possessed by Islam.” Charlie Hebdo will no longer publish images of the Prophet Muhammad 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Honestly, it was like she was possessed by a demon. I’m in love with a psychotic 2012-07-06T00:00:00Z When I asked him what possessed him to play such delicate music in a 2,700-seat hall, he laughed. Bow Aquiver, a Calligraphic Violinist Comes to Lincoln Center 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Prince Siegfried proved to be a transformative role for Brooklyn Mack, who commanded the stage with an air at once grand and approachable, and he possessed a relaxed, easy manner throughout the evening. Misty Copeland’s swan queen takes wing at Kennedy Center 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Alifom learned fast that to incorporate the flavors of Ethiopia into upscale preparations, he would need more culinary skill than he possessed. Ethiopian cuisine is unlike any other. Why are some chefs trying to modernize it? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Move has spent more than two decades channeling — being possessed by, really — Martha Graham, in their “Martha@” series, and the seven-woman cast for “Herstory” includes both current and former members of the Graham company. All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z She is a muse who works very hard, racing around and flailing like someone possessed through much of the performance’s 90 minutes. Miguel Gutierrez and Tere O’Connor Works at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Enter Lafayette, possessed by the ghost of a Creole woman who believes Arlene and Terry’s baby Mikey is her dead son. True Blood 4x9: Love, war and sexy dreams 2011-08-22T12:30:00Z Ms. Simone’s writing is possessed of more life than her listless protagonist. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ and More 2013-06-26T18:50:28Z When the central character in "Aurora" begins eyeballing another person, he seems like a man possessed. 'Aurora': quietly tracking a shadowy figure 2011-10-06T21:05:04Z All the more reason for an enterprising museum curator to revisit the time half a century ago when Mr. Caro and the Western world were momentarily possessed by a spirit of joyful, devil-may-care optimism. On the Met?s Roof Garden, Sculpture at Play 2011-04-29T13:42:59Z This was just the beginning for a writer who possessed the gift of the true storyteller. Glenn Taylor's top 10 books of the American South 2011-04-13T09:41:42Z At other times, though, she is possessed of an almost maniacal clarity and sense of purpose. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Backstage, Perry spent every moment at his laptop, in full Madea regalia, working on one of the new Viacom shows, typing as if possessed. After Madea, Tyler Perry Builds a New Kingdom 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z So with my second child, when I say I thought about how a life also possessed its end, I was not just waxing philosophical. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z She is both self-destructive and possessed of formidable survival skills. Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The daughter wakes up, which would seem joyous — were she not also possessed by the spirit of the Cage character’s dead wife. Holiday Movies 2018: All Creatures Great and Small 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z I would guess that no critic in the magazine’s history—not Edmund Wilson, not Lewis Mumford, not Pauline Kael—possessed greater authority in his or her field. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z As this recognition sinks in, the other woman, possessed by unknown emotion, steps in front of the oncoming train. “Orphan Black” is back, with new clones: Muddled and distracted, season 3 falls short 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The ensemble’s 11 men displayed some of the most dazzling breaking techniques I’ve ever seen, while Mr. Albright’s choreography possessed a sly humor and an adept sense of spatial composition. Dance Review: At BAM, DanceAfrica?s Links Between Traditional and Modern 2010-05-30T21:33:00Z Lanier also possessed a signed note from Albers, verifying the painting’s authenticity. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Initially an actress in 1920s Europe and later a writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Salka possessed both a genius for friendship and connections throughout the film industry. Review | Turning a spotlight on the Hollywood doyenne who gave refuge to artists fleeing Hitler 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z I missed a youth that I technically still possessed. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Talent and initiative were two things Gilbert possessed. 10 Women in Jazz Who Never Got Their Due 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Once I had identified an author I liked, I read everything by that person the library possessed. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z As slippery, unlikable and thoroughly corrupt as any screen president, Logan nevertheless possessed an oily charisma that could propel him far in this contest. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s the same impulse that drives celebrity worship: that attraction, even adoration, audiences feel toward those possessed of exceptional charisma and physical attractiveness. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein and the dark side of Hollywood’s talent-worship 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z He possessed a mane of wild curly hair, the requisite leather belt and sandals, and hands often swollen from beekeeping. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z Otherwise the white-hot charms this musical is said to have once possessed are left sleeping. | 'Promises, Promises': Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth Revisit Bacharach 2010-04-26T02:02:00Z He was small, but he was a natty dresser and possessed a trim mustache and a dazzling smile. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Until the industrial revolution, only the Samurai possessed the secret of creating hard, sharp steel. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z They have encounters with mysterious individuals, and animals and creatures possessed of magical gifts who tempt them, and they return to the world. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z I would have told you, before I was possessed, that I was fine with men my own age. I Was Misinformed: Sexual Myopia: If You’re My Age, Why Do You Look So Old? 2013-01-16T14:00:00Z After an out-of-body experience and feeling like being possessed, he said, he went to the corrections officers’ office for help, but was denied medical attention. Lawyers: Kodak Black moved to federal prison in Kentucky 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Folk singer Sam Lee dances like a man possessed, in neon orange trousers, and describes a song in which a man blames catching the clap on naughty water sprites. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z Henry's narrative voice retains the vigour, the energy and the directness it possessed from the beginning of his story. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Television, a relatively new medium, was often watched collectively since not every home possessed one. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z This series featured Elektra and a cyborg S.H.I.E.L.D. agent trying to kill a Presidential candidate named Ken Wind who is literally possessed by a demon—and smells like rotten mayo. Donald Trump, supervillain? Here are 8 evil comic book presidents who resemble the GOP front-runner 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z When he suggested I try to relax, I turned to face him, staring past him like I was possessed. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z Hughes, it would seem, possessed irresistible sexual magnetism from adolescence on. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Another work similarly possessed by its material is Jeff Koons’s bust of Louis XIV in gleaming stainless steel, which at least has the excuse of being deliberately postmodern. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z What Pike is, is smart, self- possessed, patient and relentless — just like the cop and mercenary he was in previous lives. 'The Sentry': Robert Crais' story of a strong man with a blind spot 2011-01-13T21:05:05Z A hero somewhat in the Shavian and Wildean mold, all observations and wisecracks, the often charming Leonard is more an antihero, possessed of contradictions. Theater Review: ‘Mary Broome’ by Allan Monkhouse at Mint Theater 2012-09-23T21:27:20Z I put my money on the Rock because he was not explicitly vile like Diesel, was not a pitiful actor like Diesel, and because he possessed a certain self-deprecating charm, unlike Diesel. The Rock's defection to kids movies breaks my heart 2010-05-27T22:00:00Z Believing he was possessed, they read the Koran to soothe him, but he bolted again. 2010-01-14T18:35:00Z Their dresses possessed the louche sensibility of the 1970s, when seductive, liquid jersey was all the rage. Nothing says subversive fashion like scowling models with greasy hair 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Despite the nightmarish imagery he often conjured up, Giger possessed an air of whimsy and childlike wonder. 'Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World' lacks the artist's process 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Dolls and their vaguely lifelike features are unsettling at best, possessed with vengeful spirits and homicidal at worst. 7 allegedly haunted dolls 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z “Theme and Variations” had its charms, but while Daniil Simkin, in the leading male role, possessed an impressive range of motion, the Tchaikovsky got the better of him in spots. A sparkling start to American Ballet Theatre’s D.C. engagement 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z He possessed the mercenary instinct of the artist and sought not to capture the Irish language but to mine it for his English sentences. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z She is possessed of bottle-blond hair that falls past her shoulders, full lips, a wasp waist and a pair of Cindy Crawford beauty marks just north of her upper lip. Will the Fashion World Accept Andreja Pejic As a Woman? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z As portrayed in the film, Nico also possessed an inner life as strange and haunted as her music. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z As quoted in Richard Martin’s fascinating liner notes in this anthology, the artist possessed a certain something. Throwback tunes: Reissues from Frenchmen, Argentines, Brits, lumberjacks and Vaudevillians 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z There are, as you might expect, large text pieces on the building’s exterior, and sprinkled on walls, billboards and train platforms throughout the city — Kruger has always been possessed of a graffiti impulse. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z She was getting ready to film a scene in which Ives becomes demonically possessed and speaks in voices. Eva Green: ‘I don’t want to be put in a box marked Weird Witch’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He possessed charm that brought him loyalty and political shrewdness that made him enemies, and on occasion a ready wit. The great might-have-been 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z When the monks return with objects once possessed by the lama’s teacher — the man whose soul they believe lives on in Tenzin — he passes the test of selecting them from similar ones with flying colors. ‘The Oldest Boy,’ by Sarah Ruhl, Opens at Lincoln Center 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z As Mattie, she's all business, possessed of a willful poise that first infuriates and then impresses all those raw men whose help she needs in fulfilling her mission. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z At least you can count on Mr. Hopkins, whose Father Lucas is eventually possessed by the devil, to deliver an expertly hammy variation on his “Silence of the Lambs” performance. | 'The Rite': Giving the Devil His Possessive Due 2011-01-27T23:35:29Z I have long possessed a thirst for adventure that has, at times, exceeded my skills. Climbing the Matterhorn: Step by Step 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The 10 pieces she chose to go on display at Angel Mounds this summer represent items of personal adornment and meaning that might give glimpses into the lives of the people who once possessed them. Amateur archaeologists’ collection goes on display 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Boyer plays Jason, a troubled Texas teenager who discovers that his hand puppet is possessed by evil. ArtsBeat: In Performance: Steven Boyer (and Tyrone) of ‘Hand to God’ 2014-03-18T12:00:28Z A lucky call on my part, because even though I looked nice enough, I possessed neither the raw material nor the willingness to try to improve the hand I’d been dealt. Perspective | Mothers and daughters: It’s a complicated sisterhood 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z I mean a great American movie possessed of an understanding of the full extent of slavery, its bottomless obscenity and violence. Django Unchained: the inglorious history of slavery in the movies 2013-01-14T06:00:00Z "The n-word possessed, then as now, demeaning implications more vile than almost any insult that can be applied to other racial groups," he said. The last 'n-word' 2011-01-05T12:02:58Z “According to my judgment, real women possessed no splendor and no magnificence,” Arturo says. An Operatic Italian Classic Gets a Fresh Translation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times, critics have called Gutierrez’s works “audacious” and said they possessed extraordinary range, “from the softly fluid to the crashingly violent.” Miguel Gutierrez Awarded New York Live Arts Residency 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “I prayed all the time that they wouldn’t. It was all just demon possession. That’s how they thought all gay people were, just possessed.” The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z I felt possessed by the need to make the PowerPoint work. Time lady 2011-04-01T08:13:48Z Half of the Salem girls who were possessed were refugees or had been orphaned by the French-Indian wars. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The extended shots are dominated by Saul’s grey figure as he hustles about the camp, possessed with the notion that one of the bodies belongs to a lost son. Beachcombing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He makes – or he has until now – films possessed of seriousness and social responsibility, driven by issues: race in Crash, mercy-killing in Million Dollar Baby, the Iraq war in In the Valley of Elah. Paul Haggis: 'You have to question your beliefs' 2011-01-06T22:30:02Z Ms. Tharp takes her cue from the building defiance in Sinatra’s singing to create a charged confrontation between two equals, a man who seeks to possess, and a woman who will not be possessed. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z But possessed of the ability to stop her heart at any time, she consistently chooses to stick around. Keeping This Fluffy, Fragile Beast Alive 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z These gonk-women just seemed thoroughly odd, labored and slow, though interestingly driven — helpless, possessed — when horizontal. Dance Review: Symmetry, Motion and Divergent Aesthetics 2012-07-02T22:15:33Z The echo giving his ragged voice a slightly superhuman quality, he sang as if possessed, haunted by the images of the lyrics, twisting words and phrasing. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z Nadja sneaks about and enjoys her own secrets, and in the new season she picks up a snarky possessed doll who becomes her newest companion. "What We Do In the Shadows" was a vampire comedy. Now it's a feel-good show about quarantine life 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Until recently, the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, which houses the research and reference collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, possessed only a few production stills from the historic shoot. L.A. Master Chorale opens season with 'Passion of Joan of Arc' pairing 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z I put every ounce of anger that I possibly possessed into that play and I tried to ventilate it. Ethan Hawke: 'Nothing went the way I thought it would' 2012-02-08T19:00:00Z They’re viewed as in over their heads and possessed of unfailingly defective judgment. A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z He possessed a bag of equipment for trimming his beard, a vanity he tended daily. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z The ostensibly meaningless "Bum bum be-dum" refrain in Rihanna's Disturbia, for example, is decoded as: "You good-for-nothing, idiotic person, let yourself become dumb, stop thinking and let yourself be hypnotised and possessed." Lady Gaga and the New World Order 2010-07-01T20:59:00Z He started out in a village in Uttar Pradesh in India, in a home that for the first eight years of his life possessed no screen at all. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z Today, the property is awash in dolls in various stages of creepy disrepair, with some visitors believing the dolls are possessed. 7 allegedly haunted dolls 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The built-in storage space for clothes would hold – perhaps – a quarter of those I possessed; there was only one wall about 12 feet long for pictures. Diana Athill: Why I moved into an old people's home 2010-04-16T23:35:00Z I understood “Agon” to require a machismo that I didn’t think I possessed and that I knew I didn’t want. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Anyone who visited Coney then knows that it possessed a dark charisma, a melancholy charm in which the boardwalk’s seediness was, at once, moodily present and a proof of what was lost. Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z To glimpse old photos of Jane and Serge is to enter a sophisticated netherworld that no longer exists, a glamorous fog of early-morning excess and possessed lust. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z But luckily, some people possessed the knowledge I sought, and would graciously share it with me, and with anyone else willing to pay. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z Jet, ordinarily possessed of a New Yorker’s seen-everything cool, leapt up, snapped to attention and seemed to place himself on war paws — because, well, hyenas. Admit One: Technology Extends Theater’s Thrills to Blind Patrons 2014-02-06T22:13:40Z Mr. Brown’s Walker, himself possessed of a ready wit, parries Harvey’s sharp questioning with smoothness. Review: In A. R. Gurney’s ‘Love & Money,’ a Grandson Materializes to Claim His Fortune 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z As everyone now knows, Hussein possessed no WMDs, and many consider the Iraq invasion to be a huge foreign policy misstep for America. Jon Stewart grills Judith Miller over her Iraq reporting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Somewhere on the road he’d suddenly be gripped by a dissociative state and possessed by the overwhelming urge to walk, to travel by foot in one continuous direction. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z Sure, there are a couple of unnerving ghosts hanging around the story and a seemingly haunted, possibly possessed, pair of siblings presenting their governess with unique problems. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “Instructions for a Funeral” is both sweeping and narrow, panoramic and fragmentary, possessed, as Means writes in “The Ice Committee,” by “a gloriously full understanding … fractured to shards.” A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Ready possessed an undeniable showmanship and proclivity for attracting media attention to Arizona’s immigration crisis. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Inspired by Treasure Beach’s magical setting, he threw himself into the event as if possessed. Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Raja is possessed with a rage against her son’s killer that seems to wrench her apart, even as she speaks with poised precision. A Syrian Filmmaker’s Urgent, Intimate View of Exile Deserves a U.S. Release 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The video, set in a gym with the entwined dancers spinning in sneakers among a sea of balloons, possessed a school dance kind of vibe. What to Fall for at Fall for Dance 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s clear that she’s careful not to repeat words too many times, that she’s either possessed of a capacious vocabulary or not afraid to use a thesaurus. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z Time and again, America has faced daunting challenges and made mistakes, yet it has possessed the inventiveness and societal flexibility to adjust and respond successfully. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z The film starred Linda Blair as a child possessed by evil spirits. 'Exorcist Steps' Recognized as Tourist Icon By Washington D.C. 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Esther is imperious, possessed of the kind of intelligence that laughs at the idea of reading actual books, and needy and generous at once. Review: French Master Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days Is a Shimmering Coming-of-Age Tale 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z A pre-teenage boy, walking the rural hillsides with his father, is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother, who has unfinished business with the living. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Shan Gao, wearing briefs, possessed a regal, sculptural purity that mirrored Ms. Bentz’s own. Dance Review: Juilliard Presents Pina Bausch’s ‘Wind von West’ 2013-12-16T22:28:36Z What we said: An elegant, eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, highly rarefied and possessed of an almost inscrutable sophistication. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Red hair matted to her pale face, sometimes she looked like a disheveled, possessed woman in a bathrobe. Families share 'Winter Warmth' at WaMu 2011-12-09T22:35:25Z To render someone as a complicated individual possessed of the self-consciousness distinctive to our species is not, of course, to excuse the things they have done. Welcome to “Pervert Park,” home to real people who’ve done terrible things 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Gordon, so alive throughout the entire ballet, possessed a vulnerability that connected beautifully with the crystalline performance of his partner, Tiler Peck. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z He possessed one of music's most brilliantly analytical minds. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Still, it possessed only a fraction of the buzz on Facebook and Twitter created by Sunday night’s No. 1 show, “Game of Thrones.” Under-the-Radar Crime Drama ‘Power’ Keeps Gaining Viewers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Travelling alone sharpened something in me, called upon inner resources I didn’t know I possessed. The girl in the cave: how a search for my former hermit's cell led to the old me 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z As his voluminous notebooks show, he possessed a Leonardo da Vinci-like breadth of interests and one central obsession: How does the mind work? Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The band’s songwriting is possessed of both an impressive ear for structure and a remarkable generosity. REVIEW: Alvvays Make Sunny Guitar-Pop Gold on Self-Titled Debut 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z At least some are bound to pique your imagination, whereupon Burden will have possessed you like a demon, never to be exorcised. The Danger Artist 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z People dance, the author writes, as if possessed by ghosts. Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z Unable to read the music his classmates had no problem with, he would learn pieces by ear – a strength he possessed far in excess of his fellow students and teachers. Jamie Cullum: Dave Brubeck and me 2010-11-23T22:01:00Z Yet if you are or can remember being young and possessed of big, ungovernable feelings, “Romeo and Juliet” won’t seem far away to you. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z His singing style resembled a British born Howlin’ Wolf possessed by Satan. Lemmy Kilmister lived the ultimate 70 years of sex, drugs and rock and roll 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Now an outcast both in the community and within her own fractured family, Pecola descends into madness, believing herself possessed of blue eyes at last. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The current practice includes safeguards that require, among others, persons suspected of being possessed to undergo medical and psychiatric evaluation before an exorcism takes place. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z It took an entire car to power Stephen King’s “Christine,” a horror novel about a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury that runs murderously amok. | 'Rubber': The Tread Life on This Tire Is Something Else 2011-03-31T22:24:37Z But the piece possessed a straightforward sense of conviction that Maynard’s essay in the seventies had lacked. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z When someone possessed by a demon was confronted by an exorcist priest, it was believed that the demon would be aggravated and cause the individual to engage in more intense and violent behavior. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z The screams from vocalist Anthony DiDio sound like air is escaping his body as he’s passenger to a possessed motorist stepping on the gas pedal, weaving through traffic and never slowing down. Perspective | As the world shrivels in front of our eyes, all we can do is scream 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z There is one point where I wondered if this car might actually be possessed. Guardian Viral Video Chart: Car gymkhana and Sarah Silverman 2010-10-08T06:30:00Z They are transparently the product of an imagination both possessed and unfettered, and as such it is hard to conceive of a more appropriate pairing of novelist and subject than that found here. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z The fantasies that possessed the psychical researchers and the god-builders still have us in their grip today. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z After World War II, a freshly translated edition led to ever-increasing attention, in part because Tocqueville’s observations possessed bipartisan appeal. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z As such, I have been treated by most fellow Muslims like a circus freak, leper or the local chaiwallah possessed by the local toilet jinn. Secrets of the Muslim bathroom 2012-07-10T01:00:00Z “No big deal, but it was really fun,” Yang said, adding that Obama had possessed “175 letters from Lin-Manuel Miranda begging the president to attend a performance of ‘Hamilton.’ ‘S.N.L.’ Spoofs Merrick Garland’s Hunt for Classified Documents 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Indeed, the playwright extracts wisdom from experiences she had growing up, such as seeing her mother possessed by a spirit. How Her Ancestors Reignited Her Return to Theater 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Last year, a professor at the Indian Science Congress, in Mumbai, claimed that India possessed airplanes seven thousand years ago. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Until his death, Peart was considered by many to be the greatest living rock drummer; watching him play, it’s hard not to start thinking he possessed several phantom limbs. The Misfit Awesomeness of Neil Peart and Rush 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z On the contrary, they convinced themselves that they possessed malign powers. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Mr. Clayton has proved himself one of the standout jazz pianists of his generation, possessed of silvery technique and an intent but relaxed way with a phrase. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Or maybe Alan is going nuts and just thinks the wraiths and possessed refrigerators, truck tires and harvesting combines are after him. Video Game Review: Remedy Entertainment?s Alan Wake for Xbox 360 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z And when the person possessed of that power is a pioneer, when she is defining a new kind of leadership, understanding those lines of communications and how to employ them is key. Kamala Harris in a White Suit, Dressing for History 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z While battling drugs and depression at home, Cobain was a tattered rag doll onstage, hurling himself into drum sets, flailing off speaker stacks and writhing in waves of guitar feedback as if possessed. Nirvana Concerts Could Be Beautiful Wrecks 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z So here was Alberta Ferretti saying her collection was about expressing “the sense of freedom possessed by women who think for themselves.” At Milan Fashion Week, Fendi, Alberta Ferretti, Max Mara 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z My hosts must have thought me possessed as I flopped this way and that trying to contain my feet, which threatened to spring out right into the hummus. Trailing spouse: “Thou shalt not bounce checks” is rumored to be the first commandment of opening a bank account in Abu Dhabi 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In Richter’s mind aspects of the opera that today may seem to some of us irretrievably of their time possessed the agelessness of archetype. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z A former hard rock singer turned blue-eyed soul man, he possessed one of the biggest, most robust and, yes, schlockiest voices of the 1980s and early ’90s. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the Dead Weather, Michael Bolton, Zs 2010-05-09T21:44:00Z Word spread that he was not crooning only to paying audiences, and perhaps possessed greater ambitions. Now Just a Muggle, With Song and Dance 2011-03-02T22:59:08Z He’s possessed by something else, his life force onstage. Darling Nikki 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Here's our guide to the most unlikely objects to have been possessed by the devil at the movies. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up | Film 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Many of them are human-sized and possessed of human speech, their behavior a distorted mirror held up to that of Homo sapiens. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z The women seem possessed, filled with a fierce, desperate energy that occasionally calms into what might be either despair or acceptance. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Eisenstadt, a drummer, is also possessed of a cinematic compositional voice. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Nobody loved diamonds like Liz Taylor and, it seemed, no one possessed as many. Elizabeth Taylor: born to be Cleopatra 2011-03-23T19:59:58Z As he flew to dealers’ showrooms and auction houses around the world, Mr. Apraxine possessed a potent weapon in his competition with other collectors: “There actually never was a budget.” Pierre Apraxine, Assembler of a Remarkable Trove of Photos, Dies at 88 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z So while the episode’s “cases” — whether a driven Broadway producer is possessed, whether a seemingly dead soccer player’s revival is a miracle — have answers, they’re in the definitely-maybe category. Fall TV Reviewed: Choir Wars, Zany Immigrants and Demons of the Week 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Hallberg was joined by five other dancers, who possessed little of his natural finesse; the men’s gawkiness, in particular, was jarring. Review: ‘Fortuna Desperata,’ in Which David Hallberg Explores the Beginnings of Ballet 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z He often talks about being "possessed" by his subjects, and is happy to say he believes in ghosts and other occult forms. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z The city of Chicago itself seems possessed as it suffers a surge in violence, supporting one character’s belief that “evil is a moveable feast”. 'The power of Christ compels you': a pop culture guide to the perfect exorcism 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Bridgewater felt “possessed” by Billie’s spirit and months after the show closed she still found herself singing in Holiday’s voice at her own concerts. Dee Dee Bridgewater on a ‘Demanding Role’ 2013-10-07T15:41:22Z Back in London, one can scarcely move for musical revivals, many of them possessed of a Chichester provenance. One Musical Knockout After Another 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Asked to draw a single extinct bird for an exhibition called “Ghosts of Gone Birds,” Mr. Steadman found himself possessed: he drew more than 100 of them, all in his inimitable, ink-specked style. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z Passengers described Haines as acting “possessed” and agreed that many people feared for their lives as the distraught woman screamed she was going to “kill everyone,” Metro reports. 'Possessed' Jet2 passenger pleads guilty for violent outburst, threatening to kill 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Dorian’s first date with Vanessa ended horrifically when a demon possessed her soul. 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Rescuers search for Mina at Grand Guignol 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Though she did not realize her lifelong desire to be an actress, as a singer Ms. Duval possessed a dramatic flair that was evident both onstage and off. Denise Duval, French Soprano and Foremost Poulenc Interpreter, Dies at 94 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z And while I live in a city for many reasons, not the least among them is the knowledge that any garden I possessed would immediately turn into a patch of scorched earth. A next-level grilled cheese, thanks to halloumi and mint you grew yourself 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Has Maltravers been possessed and corrupted — or spiritually liberated and freed to become his true self? Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Indeed it’s a demon — the same one who possessed Magali has reappeared at a nearby women’s prison. ‘The Exorcism of God’ Review: Devilishly Demeaning 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A team of Yale University psychologists studying people’s desire to own artifacts once possessed by famous people recently concluded that “celebrity contagion” was the most important factor in such purchases. ArtsBeat: Eric Clapton Raises Money for Crossroads Center 2011-03-10T15:25:16Z But when asked to confirm that he possessed or knew of demonstrably off-earth material, he said: “I don’t go there. There’s things I don’t mind talking about and things I do mind talking about.” Can Robert Bigelow (and the Rest of Us) Survive Death? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In this week’s press release to its investors, the company revealed that as of late June it owed $214 million but only possessed $205 million in assets. From Tupac to Tanked: Hologram Company Goes Bankrupt 2012-09-12T16:29:50Z He then sits on a toilet seat and pants as if possessed, inhaling and exhaling like some kind of horrible mythical creature. I watched Nicolas Cage movies for 14 hours straight, and I'm sold 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Its color was limpid gold, and it possessed a subtle saltiness that rippled down my throat. Sipping the Pleasures of Istria 2013-08-22T19:03:39Z Jake is a strong man who’s billed as hailing from darkest Africa, and possessed of a savagery that is, of course, germane to his race. Freaks on Broadway 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z He was “emotionally accessible, often soft, and possessed of the ability to laugh at the world’s folly and at himself.” Saul Bellow’s Three Sons Remember Him 2013-05-03T22:50:33Z Three-quarters of the way through our trip, we dove on Elephant Head Rock, off Island No. 8, which possessed a city block’s worth of narrow passages through a boulder field. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The Florence production revealed “Fernand Cortez” to be uneven — Act I is overweighted with ballet — but possessed of enough strong scenes to more than justify its revival. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Pragmatic, clear-eyed and unsentimental, Maeve is nevertheless possessed by the Dutch House. Review | 'The Dutch House,' by Ann Patchett book review 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The man who wrote “The Exorcist” wanted people to forget about the girl who was possessed by the Devil, who was flung about her bed as she spoke in tongues. The Comedic Side of William Peter Blatty, the Author of ‘The Exorcist’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z This is especially true of Rake, a homicidal maniac who seems as possessed by the need to talk about his crimes as he is by the need to commit them. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z I was not a real person yet, and I possessed nothing of worth to sacrifice. Modern Love: Forgoing a Shortcut on the Path to Happiness - Modern Love Not Enough to Give - Modern Love 2012-07-05T20:21:03Z And this place possessed qualities of all those. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z As Burleigh acknowledges, most Germans nominally subscribed to Christian values – unlike the Japanese, who had a "genuine excuse" for savagery since they possessed no moral code overriding their duty to the divine emperor. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z There was my mother, of course, possessed of an extraordinary voice that never wavered from perfect pitch. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z It also showed the hill started as a sacred site, where people came bearing stones; they may have believed they possessed healing powers. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z I admire beauty, both the straightforward kind—possessed by my mother—and the more subtle, magical kind that is hidden in ugliness and emerges slowly, but only to some eyes. The Looks You’re Born With and the Looks You’re Given 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The music absolutely possessed her, and it was no coincidence that it provided her most famous early role. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z The episode also features a priest battling an Islamic cleric over who gets to perform an exorcism on a person thought to be possessed by a jinn. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z He possessed a singular ability to bring sculptural life, a sense of animation, to unlikely subjects. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z And if it didn’t exactly cry out to be transformed into a musical, it possessed several ingredients much valued on Broadway these days. | 'Catch Me if You Can' : Scamming as Fast as He Can 2011-04-11T02:01:04Z For all that, “he possessed extraordinary musical gifts, daunting range, versatility and spectacular craftsmanship,” Mr. Botstein wrote, and “Henry VIII” shows Saint-Saëns at his best. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z Same reason why "The Exorcist: Believer" offers absolutely nothing to the franchise other than doubling down on the gynephobia with two possessed girls, rather than one. “The Exorcist” celebrates 50 years of man’s greatest fear . . . girls 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z But this bare-bones synopsis of the movie hardly gets at its peculiar blend of blandly palliative wish-fulfillment and exuberant, nearly possessed fervor. The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z From his earliest work, Noe possessed a redemptive gift for tenderness and intimacy, and for using the full arsenal of film language to evoke life’s most extreme sensations, not just the horrifying ones. He Lives to Provoke. What Happens When His Film Isn’t Hated? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The killers possessed a total of 143 guns between them, more than three quarters of which were obtained legally. Elliot Rodger and America’s ongoing masculinity crisis 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Albert Einstein once observed that Chico, his wire-haired fox terrier, was possessed of both great intelligence and an ability to hold a grudge. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Longtime friends say that Douglas has always possessed a certain freewheeling spirit. Michael Douglas Refuses to Age Gracefully in ‘The Kominsky Method’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Virgin is bantamweight and possessed of a quiet demeanor that first reads as pensive. Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Lang dodders and hesitates, and then murders, mercilessly, as if he were possessed. The Twisted Appeal of “Don’t Breathe” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z There are entire chapters about the levels of self-consciousness I possessed about my masculinity and my blackness, and how they impacted decisions that I have made. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Moreover, while the vast majority of my LiveJournal friends were Russian-speaking, the impostor clearly possessed a native, albeit idiotic command of English. My online impostor: When that Facebook profile isn’t you 2014-04-01T23:00:00Z “Mr. Horowitz was unwilling to confirm whether his father still possessed the painting,” the lawsuit stated, “and refused to disclose its whereabouts.” Heirs Sue Over Ownership of a Pissarro, Saying It Was Seized by Nazis 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z When I finally tackled sourdough in the summer of 2020, I was struck by how natural it felt to mix, knead, and shape the dough, as if my hands were possessed of some unspoken knowledge. In my 40th year, I finally made pita bread 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Entire plays, it is said, were written in celebration of those who possessed this enviable trait, works filled with airy, tickling dialogue and the accouterments of tasteful wealth. Theater Review: ‘The Assembled Parties,’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-04-18T02:00:35Z For a very long time, women didn't have the choice to step away from the stove unless they possessed a certain type of financial or social privilege. Madison Cawthorn's dog whistle about microwave meals isn't new 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z He seems to both be a public nuisance — stumbling with apparently drunk friends through the city streets — and possessed of a deeply unpleasant sense of self-worth. That drunk Manhattan kid is obnoxious — but even he deserves privacy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Competent administrators though they were, they possessed neither the broad vision nor the spiritual authority required to confront the challenge of Protestantism. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z “Dial possessed a combination of pride, dignity and determination, along with a wry sense of humor,” he wrote in an e-mail. Art: Letting His Life?s Work Do the Talking 2011-02-20T02:02:00Z Linda Blair, as the possessed girl, gave a terrifying performance enhanced by eye-popping special effects. William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The onlooker, who had never seen someone reading a book before, concluded that he had been possessed. Is this the end for books? 2011-08-14T20:30:01Z He could play real fast and real loud at the same time and that's very difficult to do ... it was like he was possessed when he put that horn in his mouth. 50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation 2010-08-09T15:49:00Z “If animals possessed senses of a different nature from our own, how would we know?” asks Sumper, a clockmaker who echoes the great man’s thoughts, since he fell heavily under Cruickshank’s spell. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z But as she watched “Terrifier 2,” she got a little possessed. How ‘Terrifier 2’ Slashed Its Way to Box Office Success 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z I don't know what possessed me – but it came true. Portrait of the artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater, jazz singer 2010-03-29T21:30:00Z She’s paired here with Lewis, possessed of a classically handsome profile and equally handsome baritone, which gives a unique texture to the boffo sprechstimme of one of the musical’s signature songs, “Ya Got Trouble.” Review | Trouble? Ya got none in Kennedy Center’s revival of ‘The Music Man.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z At 34, sporting a red sweatshirt and sunglasses, Mr. Dean still has the same youthful nonchalance and reed-thin build that he possessed as a hotshot 19-year old producer. A Quieter Side of Swizz Beatz 2012-09-28T19:46:44Z The site-specific new artworks scattered among the museum’s historical artifacts call attention to the tasks performed and the skills possessed by people who were excluded from the rights asserted in the Declaration of Independence. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z I’m grappling with what possessed me to buy a box each time I saw one on sale. Here are the places that want your old eyeglasses, towels, blue jeans, vases and more 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z She was Martha Parker, a comely middle-class lass “possessed of many charms.” The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z He did not simply sing; he became the music, as though possessed by a spirit of joy and release back at the Assembly of God. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Like the others, “Magnum P.I.” is sleek, loud and possessed of less personality than the expensive vehicles it shoots up and drives off cliffs. Review: New ‘Magnum P.I.’ Is Mostly Nostalgia and Testosterone 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z DeHart claims he possessed sensitive information he received over the dark web that the government wants, and they are using the legal case to target him and get access to his computer files. "Enemies of the State" director on the twisty new doc with "too many secrets still in the story" 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Though the witch next door suggests he’s possessed, he’s later diagnosed with an incurable psychiatric disorder, leading to punchline so distasteful it’s bleeped out in most of the YouTube postings of the song. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Behind him sits a little girl, said to be possessed. In Praise of Patrick Wilson, Scream King 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z The founder of Southern Wild Distillery on the north coast, Mr. Burgess wanted to produce a spirit that showcased Tasmanian ingredients and, as he put it, possessed a real sense of “terroir.” In Tasmania, a Gin Boom Showcasing Native Plants (and Even Sheep Whey) 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I faked letters, I summoned a horrible plague that afflicted all the residents of our block, every one of our acquaintances possessed some satanic trait, and they all plotted against us. A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z By the end, she was possessed, clawing at her thighs and frantically miming a series of incidents undercut with anguish. Critic’s Notebook: Trespassing on the Proving Ground of the Next Generation 2013-07-28T21:30:12Z And the man is as possessed as these women. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The Second symphony, regarded as sunny yet possessed of a manic energy, reveals its shadows when heard in the composer's home city. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z He reasserts control by staging himself as exotic, emphasizing that the people and objects flattened by the Western gaze have always possessed their own spirits. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z His houses make plain: If the poet had an insatiable appetite for food, and love, and ships’ models, and wine, he also possessed a strong work ethic. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Marry the two, Badinter argues, and a new type of mom was born — one who knew what she wanted for her babies and believed she possessed some innate wisdom to make it happen. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z I was ready; I possessed the kind of glorious semi-isolation that writers crave — minus the maid service. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Walking through the gates, patrons are at the mercy of not just inflated wait times and needlessly expensive concessions, but also possessed mascot costumes, sleep-stealing Night Hags, and egotistical ghosts. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Scott is a virtuoso of obsession, of men and women possessed. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z What possessed him to come back after exiting the stage before his first love, American Idol, finally curdled into pure tedium? Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Fred West especially was genial, affable and possessed of a beguiling charm which he used equally on men and women. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z They sent him to a private school, and, more important, they possessed a fine library, which he was encouraged to use. Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z We disagreed about the Holy Spirit, too, and how one acted when possessed by him. My real-life “Footloose”: I grew up in a town that banned secular music 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z One of the priests at the university told him about a case from nearby Prince George’s County in which a 14-year-old boy seemed to be possessed by a demon. William Peter Blatty, author of ‘The Exorcist,’ dies at 89 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z A federal judge in New York has ruled that Marvel Entertainment owns the rights to Ghost Rider, a supernatural character possessed by a spirit of vengeance who first appeared in 1972. ArtsBeat Blog: Marvel Wins Court Battle Over Rights to Ghost Rider 2011-12-29T17:42:26Z Suddenly possessed with all the fervour of a “Day in the Life of a ‘30 Under 30’ Entrepreneur” profile, Banks starts waking up at 4am to read emails and do yoga. Crazy, stupid, love: the mind-altering obsession taking over romcoms 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z After the war, valuable paintings possessed by the Nazis were confiscated by the U.S. Paintings Hitler bought found in Czech Republic 2012-02-28T17:37:11Z The venture did have a manager, Duncan McDougall, who Stark says, “possessed the flexibility to adjust to these fluid cultural situations.” ‘Astoria’: 19th-century fortune hunters in the Pacific Northwest 2014-03-06T20:27:01Z In it, she referred to the United States as “the greatest country on Earth,” “an exceptional nation” and “the indispensable nation” that, of course, possessed “the greatest military” ever. The real face of Washington (and America): It can happen here — in fact, it did 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z He thought that the “great thing” about cats was that they possessed “two qualities to an extreme degree—dignity and comicality.” The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Something peculiar happens early in Daniel Handler’s new novel, “Bottle Grove”: A vicar is possessed by a fox. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Fred Rogers was more than a moral compass and role-model: He was a philosopher and activist who possessed a well-defined political ideology. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The problem, in what amounts to an antipodean spin on “Flatliners,” is that there are consequences to staying possessed for more than a brief window of time. Summer Movies 2023: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Here, as in other folk horror tales, being inside a myth is terrifying, a fall from the industrialised, supermarket world into one possessed by abysmal powers. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z What links Ishiguro’s disparate novels is his voice, which is abstemious yet oddly lush and possessed of gyroscopic balance. Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s not surprising that the same monks who later deliberately wash their hands of the troublesome problem of Beatryce have failed that test, and fear her as a thing possessed by demons. Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Every food possessed fixed humoral qualities — fennel was hot and dry, cucumber was cold and wet — and assigned a place in a rigid cosmic hierarchy. What We Eat During a Plague 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z History is a body count of the acceptable casualties of genius, chief among them wives who possessed the touching temerity to harbor ambitions of their own. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Lila, she thinks, “possessed intelligence and didn’t put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches in the world are merely a sign of vulgarity.” Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z She was described in a 1979 Los Angeles Times story as “sweet-voiced, radiantly pretty, cheerfully self-assured” and possessed of “restraint, inner calm and discreet understatement.” Marty Ingels, actor-turned-agent and husband of Shirley Jones, dies at 79 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Her smile, as she bops around, is huge, unforced, radiant; just like that, she’s been possessed by pure joy. André Téchiné, Director of ‘Unforgivable’ 2012-06-24T01:23:01Z Photograph: Stewart Cook/Rex Features Maybe we'll never know what possessed the Academy to do what they just did. Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last? 2013-01-11T14:12:00Z Touch is the first sense humans develop in the womb, possessed even of 1.5cm embryos. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z If only Mr. Rubinek’s play, not to mention the filmmaker Frank Oz’s clunky stage handling of it, possessed something of the sheen of their co-star. Theater Review: Welcoming Back Synge, and Stomping Along With 'Rock of Ages' 2011-10-04T10:11:45Z Not because I thought it was ethically wrong or impractical or too difficult, but because it was sacrilegious to the idea of love I possessed. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z And once Chucky is possessed by a murderer, he wants to do guy things like watch the 9 o'clock news and insult women. “Child’s Play” reflects the gendered panic of boys 'n dolls 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In taking the characters to college, and putting them through a largely miserable transition to adulthood, many felt that season four lacked the vim the show once possessed. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But when it came to charting that vocal course, Mr. Asawa later said, he felt he possessed a staggering advantage. Brian Asawa, Celebrated Countertenor and Pathbreaker at the Met, Dies at 49 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Peldon, a Los Angeles voice artist and former child actress, has been brought to tears, and giggles — she screamed at the pig in Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja” and once played a possessed baby goat. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z A gregarious hostess and entrepreneur who, with her husband, headed a luxury packaging firm, she possessed a resourcefulness with a ribbon and shears that had piqued Carson’s curiosity. How to Live to 100 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The story line is about a demonically possessed hospital patient. Parks close Halloween ride amid charges of stereotyping 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z As before, its playable protagonist is a man named Dante, who needs to kill demons for some greater good, this time in a modern city possessed by them. Video Game Review: DmC Is the New Devil May Cry Game From Capcom 2013-01-28T22:48:32Z Eilish’s expression droops, and her eyes tilt upward like those of a possessed doll. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Key to an understanding of Sylvia are those rare moments when Ford, a profound psychologist, allows us to consider that she is more than just a vengeful spirit possessed by evil. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z There Lane formulated and tested hundreds of different glazes, gaining experience and a body of knowledge that few other postwar artist-potters possessed. They Hold Weeds, and an Artist’s Sublime Vision 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Lafayette, Tara and Jesus freak out at Marnie for getting possessed and making Pam's face do that thing that happens when you open the Arc of the Covenant. "True Blood" 4x5: Vampire history lessons 2011-07-25T11:20:00Z She possessed an uncanny knack for comforting people, for knowing the right thing to say and knowing when to say nothing at all. Perspective | Mothers and daughters: It’s a complicated sisterhood 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z He adapted them, and then later showed where in the real world they led, if taken to their logical outcome by someone possessed, for a time, of absolute power. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Of course, had Ralston been possessed by a firm religious faith he might well have embraced the comforts of death, rather than fighting to survive. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:25Z Of course, Mr. Shorter was possessed of his own voice, and on “Juju” his saxophone cast a different shadow on the polyrhythmic structures built by Mr. Tyner and Jones. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Few actresses of her generation or any other possessed such unselfconscious tenderness. 2009-12-21T16:01:00Z Fox also starred last year as the title character in "Jennifer's Body," playing a possessed cheerleader who preys on high school boys. Megan Fox dropped from third 'Transformers' 2010-05-20T02:01:00Z But they have no powers of arrest beyond those possessed by private citizens. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z So is the living twin, Kirstie, pretending to be Lydia, or possessed by her? Review: S.K. Tremayne’s cinematic thriller ‘The Ice Twins’ 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z They’re mostly damaged innocents, lurkers and isolatoes, possessed of queasy stomachs and not quite ready for either the big city or for this world. Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z Returning to Middle-earth lacks the thrills it once possessed, but there are worse ways to spend your time. Game On: 'Revelations' ends well; 'Lord of the Rings' lacks thrills 2011-11-25T18:42:03Z Once I went to the Kremlin 10 years ago and I was completely possessed by Catherine the Great, her lovers, her dresses, her colors. Manolo Blahnik: The Shoe Sculptor at 40 2012-02-22T18:05:25Z He’s socially awkward, naïve, yet possessed of good intentions. The Unintentional Politics of Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z What possessed Mr. Têtedoie to close the tranquil, Michelin-starred restaurant he ran for 20 years in Lyon and, earlier this year, open a futuristic establishment high above town on Fourvière Hill? Bites : Restaurant Review: T?tedoie, in Lyon, France 2010-11-28T09:30:00Z It felt as if we possessed a kind of wealth, a small fortune in saved-up nights on the beach like this one. Beach holiday tragedy 2011-08-05T22:01:58Z But it still possessed the distinction of making history with the nomination of Ava DuVernay for best director, the first time an African American woman has received such an honor. At a notably relevant Golden Globes, the film world is seen struggling to keep pace 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Its layers of rising figures in ostinato patterns, quickly changing meters, percussive passages of nearly breezy swing feel, along with others possessed of stark calamity, call to mind elements of musical history in unexpected ways. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z He does not think them morally admirable, kind, or possessed of a great wisdom inaccessible to modern man. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Maybe Mr. Dillane’s strung-out Nick, the most interesting character so far — already walking dead in human terms, but possessed of a healthy survival instinct — will continue to develop. Review: ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ a Show About a Plague’s Start (What Zombies?) 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z In a statement, Mr. Rosen’s company described the plan, which will be reviewed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission this month, as an effort to “restore luster the space possessed upon opening.” Proposed Design Changes to the Four Seasons Prompt an Outcry 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z She was beautiful, yes, but he wasn't a fool: she possessed a number of other more subtle qualities he prized highly too. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z “Latin America in Construction” seems possessed by a bygone optimism. Review: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’ at MoMA 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A talented popularizer of science who made regular appearances on TV and radio and also wrote sci-fi, Fred had a good grasp of math and theoretical physics, but also possessed a penchant for unpopular concepts. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Forsythe is much possessed by death; his subject, overwhelmingly, is loss. The Forsythe Company – review 2013-06-22T23:05:16Z Unlike the colonist of British descent, the typical Celtic-Gaelic soldier in Washington's ranks possessed relatively little, if any, land or political, social, and financial means by 1775. The Irish have become the forgotten players of America's struggle for independence 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Costumed like western movie characters in black hats and grungy clothes, with holsters at their hips, they appear possessed by a repertoire of stereotypical, mechanical moves. Joachim Koester: ‘Body Electric’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In the unhelpful role of Chiquita in The Lavender Hill Mob, she attracts the attention both of Alec Guinness and of the camera: a woman visually striking and possessed of a certain quality of unhappiness. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z The man on the quest for the fringed suede boots is a man possessed. Missed the Latest Supreme Drop? Head to Grailed 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It also meant that they possessed a fortune. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “The magic of it all possessed me,” she wrote, “sight, sound and sense; there was in this abundant land everything for which my heart had yearned.” Book review: ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters,’ by Philip Eade He’s sort of possessed by the film while he’s making it.” the new season Film: Ryan Gosling and ?Ides of March? 2011-09-14T12:00:05Z With her cart filling and her agony lessening, Ms. Gutierrez saw her sweet and reliable teammate in a new light: He possessed a dry wit and charm. Why Wait? When You Know, You Know. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z All that’s disturbed when he gets possessed by a supernatural force that gives him the power to command anyone to do anything he says: he literally has the hand of God. Preacher: 'It's bigger than Breaking Bad. It's a romp' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It was that fidelity to Mahler’s original intent that perhaps conferred on Mr. Kaplan all the authority that he possessed. Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught maestro of Mahler, dies at 74 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Yes folks, it's angels-with-Uzis time in Legion as the four horsemen of the apocalypse are upstaged by shrieking hordes of divinely possessed madmen. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z So I wasn’t exactly possessed by it when I got it, but now I can’t imagine life without it. Possessed : Designer’s Favorite Object: A Cast-Iron Skillet - Possessed 2012-09-15T01:00:34Z Allen possessed some strange inverted charisma that made audiences connect with him as a person. Jack Rollins, manager of Woody Allen, Billy Crystal and others, dies at 100 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z So then therefore, the second time I won, I was like possessed and determined that I would own it in a different way. The Carpetbagger: Oscar Memories of Rachel Weisz, Christoph Waltz, Sally Field 2013-01-09T23:28:39Z Rather, the dancers seem to bump into the voices, to become temporarily possessed by them. The Forsythe Company: I Don't Believe in?Outer Space ? review 2011-02-24T18:19:15Z The program was centered on treatments of the traditional theme known as the Folia, so the works we heard possessed a clearly perceptible family likeness. Brilliance from Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI 2014-03-01T18:10:04Z There is no indication that he possessed any kind of magic, despite Christopher Purves's inspired performance in the title role. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z Initially, the poet laureate was sceptical about the project, protesting that he possessed the kind of singing voice that could bring up bodies from the murky depths of the Thames. Hidden treasures: Sir John Betjeman's Banana Blush 2013-02-15T10:10:12Z What Riley finds there calls for a courage and resilience he never dreamed he possessed, and it emboldens him to begin shaping a brighter, more open future for himself. Review | Three books to delight — and illuminate — young readers 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “She possessed intelligence,” Elena writes of Lila, “and didn’t put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity.” ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ by Elena Ferrante 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z This accusation of fraud possessed a diabolical potency for those who wished him ill. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Imagine another actor trying to do what Carrey does here, essentially spending an hour and a half possessed by a spirit that prevents him from lying. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z On the dance floor, sweating guests gyrated as if possessed. Scene City: When the Party Approaches Its Boiling Point 2011-07-27T20:06:11Z “Ultimate beauty,” she writes, “requires that edge of sweet decay, just as our casually possessed lives are made more precious by a whiff of the abyss.” My critics ‘were in some measure correct,’ Sally Mann admits in memoir 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But Sawayama only had eyes for the instrument itself, her eyes locked onto its strings, dancing in response to its sounds, almost like she had been possessed. If It’s All Going to Hell, Rina Sawayama Can’t Wait to See You There 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The weird energy that possessed him comes through in contemporary descriptions of Dickens, of which there are some eloquent ones—Dickens was fortunate in his describers. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z Playing a possessed girl doesn't exactly represent a starmaking breakthrough, but Bell, who looks a bit like Amy Adams, shows talent. 'Last Exorcism' Review: 'Documentary' Plays with Doubt 2010-08-26T22:55:00Z Mann is long overdue for a similar ascent, possessed of the range and raw charisma to anchor a show of her own. Which big-screen actors deserve a small-screen reinvention? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z King's work at this point utilised more traditional horror tropes – the haunted or possessed whatevers that drove the stories along. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 19: Thinner 2013-04-16T17:27:36Z Indeed, this understanding is possessed by most mammals, particularly primates, but especially by humans. My bright idea: evolution and empathy 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The difference, both ironic and awful, is that while Regan MacNeil is possessed by a demon, Anna O’Donnell is possessed by the suffocating dogma of the church in which she was raised. Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z An autodidact with a deeper knowledge of genre films than any of us possessed, Tarantino seemed to enjoy filling us with anecdotes and lore. Pulp Fiction at 20: When Cannes Was Cool 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z “As the rushes were shown, however, he possessed such an unerring eye that his exposures were invariably perfect.” Gilbert Taylor, Celebrated Hollywood Cinematographer, Dies at 99 2013-08-27T02:48:23Z Vigeland, possessed of an ego to match Ibsen’s, initially scorns the idea. Review: Doug Wright’s ‘Posterity,’ a Portrait of Ibsen 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z She knew early on that she possessed an unusual skill for copying images, which coalesced into the ambition to be an artist. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But Keynes and Lopokova were both exceptional oddities: he possessed a rare intellectual curiosity and subtlety of imagination; she had an intuitive comic charm and intelligence. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z Fleming possessed a fine singing voice, and later in her career sang onstage in Las Vegas and in a touring act. Rhonda Fleming, film star of ‘40s and ‘50s, dies at 97 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z He points to several elements of the house as possessed by Beetlejuice: The wallpaper, for instance, is black and flaking, dipped in sealants to give it a tar-like texture. The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Here, as before, she is the shrewd and savvy outsider — a ditzy-seeming sorority girl in fact possessed of steel — who ends up making an indelible mark at Harvard Law School. Elle Woods Returns to London in a Revamped ‘Legally Blonde’ 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z In March, he vetoed a civil rights bill and questioned whether former slaves possessed “the requisite qualifications to entitle them to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.” The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z I have been sent videos from friends who have captured the moment their children become possessed by the film’s song. Disney’s Animated Film ‘Frozen’ Has Some Children Obsessed 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The film tells the story of a young American girl who is possessed by a demon and eventually exorcised by a Catholic priest. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z The Kushner who wrote “Bright Room” already possessed the far-reaching intellect and imagination that would become part of his indelible signature. ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ Review: The Playwright Enters the Play 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z His early portraits of Edwardian London society and still lifes possessed a luminosity that reflected Symbolist ideals, which sought to transcend reality. Portraits of a Lady | Baron Adolph de Meyer 2010-03-04T16:40:00Z After his arrest and while on pretrial release, Douglas possessed heroin, the charges said. 2010-01-27T22:39:00Z He seems possessed by a feeling that recurs again and again in the painter’s pictures: contained anger. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z “I have to have it mommy,” Briar begged her mother, who tried to redirect her daughter to toys that did not appear possessed. Toddler takes this creepy doll everywhere. The internet is swooning. 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z At some point, though, perhaps many years after the encounter recorded here, they will peek down at the chasm under their feet and find themselves possessed of the agility and imagination to keep going. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z In those years America still possessed a faith in its own future, and the optimism of Capra's movies persisted as a powerful image of that faith. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z But I can't imagine what possessed her – or the BBC – to think it would be a good idea to rehash the story so soon after its first outing. The Syndicate; What Do Artists Do All Day? – TV review 2013-03-20T07:00:12Z They appear to her as sudden visitations, reminders of all she once possessed. ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Though possessed of an imagination as gothic as anyone’s, Williams probably could never have fathomed how grim the last acts of his career would become. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z What is clear — very clear — is that everyone here is possessed by thoughts of mortality and reproachful recollections of their dearly departed. Review: Remembering the Way It Was (Not) in ‘The Things That Were There’ 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The movie has also come as something of a surprise even to some of Mr. Stewart’s longtime friends and collaborators, who did not realize he possessed that aspiration. Jon Stewart Tells Maziar Bahari’s Story With ‘Rosewater’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z She has an oddly captivating presence, which I suppose is what possessed reality show producers to cast her in a role doing nothing in the first place. "Dancing with the Stars": Sarah Palin makes a cameo 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z So there were two identical wands, one possessed by Voldemort and one possessed by Harry. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z In one Lindell appearance, he immediately veered off topic to claim he possessed “100 percent proof” of “all the election fraud with these Dominion machines.” Chris Ruddy and Newsmax went all-in on Trump. Now they might pay a price for it. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Williams drove back to their home and announced to his children’s governess, Miss Ragland, that Audrey possessed “a cold, cold heart.” We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, although Max may be a witty soul he is not possessed of brevity. Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson 2010-09-20T10:37:00Z The touring Evan, Ben Levi Ross, possessed of a rewardingly supple voice and wounded mien of the kid picked last in gym class, proves a worthy inheritor of the role created by Platt. Review | Welcome home, ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You’re back where you belong. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z On the one side there were those unsure if Tyrone even possessed the required motor skills to land a punch. Coronation Street: Tyrone and Fiz, the Bonnie and Clyde of the M6 2013-02-16T05:59:01Z I had to explain, no, these are actual real titles proudly possessed by a grown man at the age of 61. Perspective | Prince Andrew’s titles were ridiculous. But it matters that he no longer has them. 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet she spent just two terms at school and possessed no academic qualifications. Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z Helicopter parents are so determined to prevent their children from being possessed by vengeful ghosts, or ancient Babylonian deities, or whatever those things are metaphors for, that they micromanage their offspring’s childhoods out of existence. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Sometimes, he adds, he even feels a little possessed by them. The Cabiri add dance power to their aerial act 2011-10-16T03:13:54Z Otherwise sympathetic readers will struggle to tell apart the two beautiful women with whom Adam is involved: both intensely desirable, and both possessed of a limitless capacity to indulge the solipsistic poet-fraud in their midst. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-05T10:00:02Z Her hops into squats are huge, and everything is fiercer, wilder, almost possessed. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa’s ‘Akasha’ Finds Physical Precision 2013-06-27T22:18:30Z You will also meet eccentric characters possessed by a kind of madcap melancholy, soulful and silly in equal measure. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z Simoni, the Albanian cardinal, said exorcisms should only be attempted after doctors are unable to explain the behavior of a person deemed to be demonically possessed. Exorcism by cellphone: Beating the devil in the 21st century 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z But this will require abandoning the old distorting illusions and fantasies of a power that Britain never quite possessed. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Wallace played competitive tennis in his youth and possessed an intricate knowledge of the game and an endless curiosity about the psychology of its greatest practitioners. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z “I did not suppose he had the devil he certainly possessed in his heart.” Was this Lincoln conspirator guilty? At this museum, you decide. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Prudent timing for Buddhist-convert Mum whose desperation to get a private audience with his Holiness turns her into a woman possessed. Andy Capper's Screen burn: My Family's Crazy Gap Year 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Complex and possessed of an otherworldly serenity, Frank gets too little screen time; developing his character further might have redeemed this movie. Review: ‘Frank the Bastard,’ a Trip Back to Old Crimes at the Commune 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He reacted by instructing a gate agent to confiscate my belongings and to X-ray and search them, to see if I possessed the missing phone. The Bay Citizen: The Case of a Stolen iPhone at a San Francisco Airport 2012-03-16T06:35:30Z Taken together, Géricault’s creations reveal a man seemingly possessed by injustice. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The whereabouts of the many works once possessed by Dirk and Pieter Menten remain something of a mystery, but their names appear in the provenances for paintings shown in numerous databases, books and auction catalogs. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Insecurity, guilt and resentment open a doorway to stressed mothers being possessed by the spirits of baby-killing witches, photosensitive ghosts or bogeymen from the pages of children’s books. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Your next movie, “Bad Hair,” is about a woman who’s possessed by a sentient killer weave. Why the Creator of ‘Dear White People’ Is Doubling Down on Identity Politics 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But they never possessed the explosive volatility of Ike and Tina. Farewell, my muskrat love: Captain and Tennille divorce 2014-01-23T20:16:00Z Boseman also mastered the on-stage strutting and dance moves that inspired Jagger, Michael Jackson and plenty others; he’s a wondrous dervish — fully possessed in both sense of the word. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Elton John, whose song “Skyline Pigeon” Ms. Durham recorded in 1971, once said that she possessed “the purest voice in popular music.” Judith Durham, Singer of ‘Georgy Girl’ and Other Hits, Dies at 79 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Then Jackson took over; he wanted The Hobbit for himself, just as he had possessed the Ring movies, and he decided it would be three features. Review: Do Enlist in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z For many respondents, the choice to maintain some sort of civil relationship was because the person possessed desirable traits such as trustworthiness and reliability. The science of Jerry and Elaine: The unsettling reasons why some exes keep each other close 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Sledge, a 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, possessed one of the most distinctive tenor voices in the Southern soul genre. Percy Sledge, soul balladeer of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman,’ dies at 74 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Shifting shape, he remained unmistakable; who knew that chameleons possessed so robust a soul? Anthony Lane: Celebrating Alec Guinness’s Centenary, at Film Forum 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Simply to be heard, it can take exceptional gifts, like those possessed by Ms. Minaj. Review: Dej Loaf Releases ‘#AndSeeThatsTheThing’ 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “I’m possessed with this type of food,” he said. Emilio?s Ballato: Like Rao?s, but You Can Get In 2011-10-25T22:32:35Z Derek was rarely possessed by the spirit of anyone who led a dull but useful life, and died peacefully in bed. Most Haunted: a guilty pleasure? 2011-08-17T10:44:57Z Then Jayne's daughter's toy bird became possessed by an evil spirit. Summer readings: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 2011-08-25T08:38:22Z Where Olivia is a diminutive black woman possessed almost completely by her intense emotions—anger, passion, pride—Fitz is a tall white man, always clad in a suit and tie and flag pin. How “Scandal” became great again: By replacing Olivia’s white hat with a crown 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Prêtre, whose last name means “priest,” sometimes conducted as though he were possessed, shaking his arms and writhing at the rostrum in a manner that reminded some observers of his American peer Leonard Bernstein. Georges Prêtre, French conductor who recorded with Maria Callas, dies at 92 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z He also told me that Kahn believed her costume was “possessed by the ghost of Judy Garland. She was hysterically funny, doing these Judy maneuvers while she was wearing her coat.” The Curious Case of Chris Evans’s Sweater 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z "It's really about, of course, the tensions within the church today", said the Observer and possessed a and possessed a "breezy confidence" opined the Independent. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z I have gone out, a possessed witch / haunting the black air," Anne Sexton wrote, and Sylvia Plath imagined herself as a witch exulting when burnt at the stake: "My ankles brighten. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z It's sad and desperate stuff: that a marginalised group could delude itself it possessed such powers is a sign, more than anything, of powerlessness. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z He possessed skill, integrity and courage to an extent not often found in today's journalism. The Auto Industry Remembers Jerry Flint 2010-08-09T15:49:00Z For the next six decades, his amazing work levitated this magazine; here was a major twentieth-century artist who also possessed an unmatched gift for the magazine page, especially The New Yorker’s. Remembering Saul Steinberg 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z F. Gary Gray, the film’s director, said he fought for Mr. Tucker over actors who were better known at the time, like Chris Rock and Tommy Davidson, believing he possessed an innate star quality. Back Again, Whether or Not He Was Away 2011-08-18T15:13:02Z The paintings, in a simplified realist style, depict events including, according to the gallery checklist, “Maid interrupting little green alien attack,” “Sleeping woman being possessed by spirits” and “Gorilla grabbing scared woman.” ‘Pulp Drunk’: ‘Mexican Pulp Art’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But, for all their susceptibility to the forces of darkness, possessed mothers do essentially have their children’s best interests at heart. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The protagonist is a choirmaster, possessed, we’re told, of a voice angels themselves might envy. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z The fallout of their father’s addiction and mother’s absence is everywhere in the lives of these siblings, each struggling with various compulsive behaviors, and possessed of a precision-honed ability to push the others’ buttons. ‘Wet Brain’ Review: A Vodka-Spiked Horror Show 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z World War II veterans possessed searing lifelong memories of sharks – either from direct experience or from the shark stories of others. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z I’m not saying every wannabe director or actor or musician is possessed with that. Haters Shall Be Lovers In La La Land 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And this summer movie season — usually a sunny time of air-conditioned escapism in theaters — is, fittingly, teaming with demons, serial killers and possessed dolls. Summer Movie Preview: Horror takes a holiday 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Pianist, composer, harpist, spiritual teacher, Coltrane possessed a creative range that few have rivaled. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Fitzgerald possessed a heritage that allowed him to appreciate the nation’s history. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Our nation’s most poetic interpreter 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “My ability to accumulate information felt like the only control I still possessed,” she writes, noting that it takes an average of three years and four doctors for an autoimmune disease to be diagnosed. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Henry, armed and possessed with superhuman strength and accuracy, copiously sheds the blood of the attackers and makes another escape. The Zipless, First-Person Violence of “Hardcore Henry” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But first appearances are misleading: it transpires the child is his son, possessed of unearthly powers. Michael Shannon: ‘Actors are just models nowadays. Going to the Oscars is like going to the prom’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And even Larkin admitted that the city possessed a "different resonance". What fresh Hull is this? 2010-06-24T13:50:00Z Both Greene and Waugh believed that their characters' religious sensibilities gave them a dimension that most people in novels no longer possessed. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Michael Kinsley owns what might be the most envied journalistic voice of his generation — skeptical, friendly, possessed of an almost Martian intelligence — and in this superb book he turns his sights to aging. Book Gift Ideas: Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z I’m not sure what possessed me — perhaps I was scarred by school cafeteria food — but I shot back, “I don’t want that micro-processed food.” It didn’t matter that we were in Denver. In my mother’s house, soul food reigned. 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z And Lear’s Fool possessed ideal caregiver qualities: “loyalty, steadfastness, wit.” New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Han’s debut novel, about a Korean American who becomes possessed by an ancestor’s ghost, is a funny and moving examination of family and the question of how to recover after a disaster. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. dos Santos possessed the most spirit and connection to the music, but his loops of movement were repetitive; Mr. Respilieux, precise and understated in a group, lost his allure as a soloist. Review: Spinning and Toiling, but Not Finding Coltrane’s Sacred Love 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Along with these gifts, Laplante possessed a superb baritone voice and frequently performed sentimental songs on the vaudeville circuit. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z But she is also possessed of an underlying strength that knows that she has had what it takes to not only endure but prevail. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z He consumed up to 10 newspapers a day and treated them as if their pages possessed an unusual mojo. Perspective | Physical books are alive with memories. Has the pandemic pushed them into the ether for good? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The Bible’s first five books, for example, possessed a special status: a fragment of Leviticus shown here is written using an ancient paleo-Hebrew script, affirming the text’s antiquity. Exhibition Review: ?The Dead Sea Scrolls? at Discovery Times Square - Review 2011-10-28T22:51:17Z If as a young man he possessed what Lamster calls an “extravagant hauteur,” he was too full of enthusiasm to be merely a cynic. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z He was a master conductor who possessed an innate understanding of great music that he performed with astonishing energy, care, warmth and affection. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z The tricky chore of smuggling contraband across international borders became even dicier after 9/11, and the methods Lendrum devised called for all the chutzpah he possessed. Review | For years, Jeffrey Lendrum was at once an avid outdoorsman and merciless thief. Then he got caught. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z As has been well-documented, he was controlling, if not dictatorial, but at the same time possessed a deep love for the natural world. Savage on Beefheart 2010-12-22T13:46:32Z Here we know from the off – thanks to the possessed mouth of Sophie from Peep Show – that something very bad is on its way. Doctor Who: Matt Smith's debut in The Eleventh Hour - the verdict 2010-04-03T18:25:00Z Andy argues with himself like he's possessed by his own co-dependent ghost, but then bright lights start flashing and a fairy appears. "True Blood" 4x11: The witch is dead? 2011-09-05T12:06:00Z Frank Bruni, a former restaurant critic for The Times, said the Four Seasons possessed “a stubborn magic” in his 2007 review, and on Saturday it stuck like glitter to skin. The Last Dinner at the Four Seasons 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z It is how utterly possessed he seems, as if his body and soul had been taken over by some transcendental or demonic spirit, that makes what he does riveting to watch and hear. ArtsBeat Blog: Two Performa Events Invite One Big Question 2011-11-10T19:24:54Z On rare occasions, it can even impart blinding pain, as an overly tight mask presses your glasses into your face, setting off sensitive nerve endings you did not know you possessed. ‘Sleep No More,’ Enhanced by MIT Media Lab 2012-05-22T22:30:52Z And Freddie Fox makes some amazing noises as a youngster possessed of a palate that may not be quite as cleft as it would at first appear. Theater Review: Slamming Doore, Heavy Sledding 2011-01-11T13:00:02Z Instead of using racism, one could be possessed by it. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z FBI agents searched Miller’s rural Rush County home for several days in April, with officials saying he improperly possessed some items among his collection of thousands of artifacts from around the world. Relics from investigated collection on display 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It seemed that, in addition to country clubs, the residents possessed their own small primitive kingdom. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Just as a dead killer possessed a doll via lightning strike in “Child’s Play,” the consciousness of a killer psychopath inhabits a recreational drone via lightning strike in this satirical horror film by Jordan Rubin. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s thin, nimble, and agile, and possessed of surprising range; in many ways, it’s the musical manifestation of Brown’s skill as a dancer, his other major talent. Review: Chris Brown Has Hits, But Mostly Misses, on X 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z When she performs her big solo, “Little Girls,” with a possessed, mesmerizing loopiness, it feels less like a declaration of war than like a private nervous breakdown. Theater Review: ‘Annie,’ Starring Katie Finneran, at the Palace Theater 2012-11-09T03:37:23Z The stuff of the world is intensely observed, but only possessed for the time being, with the exchange of money for days, and rooms. Alice by Judith Hermann ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:06Z Blending allure and minimalist restraint, she possessed a subdued intelligence that Ozu said set her apart from many performers of her generation. Setsuko Hara, Japanese movie star of exquisite power, dies at 95 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z A Betty Cooke piece became a signal, a kind of secret handshake alerting those who recognized it that the wearer possessed a confident style. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z By the third or fourth time the angelic-looking Calis rolls her eyes in that way the possessed do, she isn't the only one. 'The Possession': Demon goes out of the box in exorcism film 2012-08-30T09:16:03Z When we last saw Dr. Hayward, he was tending to the newly possessed Agent Cooper. The People of ‘Twin Peaks’: Here’s Where We Left Off 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Friend, speaking by telephone, said that Miller can give herself over to a character so completely that she seems practically possessed. Sienna Miller Found Catharsis in ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Vanessa and company were haunted by shadowy specters and witch spells and millenia-old prophecies from a possessed monk, and also by the inescapable ghosts of their own mistakes. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z They found themselves doubting they possessed enough energy to finish all of that evening’s studying, let alone hit repeat the next day. Perspective | The many reasons you need iron in your diet 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z In one solo, Waldean Nelson shifts between images of blackness with the intensity of a man possessed by demons. ‘Mr. TOL E. RAncE’ on Black Entertainers and Race 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z In that world, Pearson wasn’t asking deep and probing theological questions – he was a heretic who had probably been possessed by the devil. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Its weird juxtaposition of subject matter and mood infect the whole song, which is possessed both of a beautiful melody and a lyric about people trying to escape a rioting city and drowning in sewage. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake - review 2011-02-10T15:29:01Z Paranormal Activity was about people being possessed by a ghost. Dark Skies trailer: pretty normal activity for Jason Blum 2012-11-28T12:59:59Z The judge found that he either conspired to possess, or possessed, with intent to distribute, 81.5 kilograms; 358 times the amount that was found on him. Meet the real Walter White: This man sold meth to save his son’s life 2013-12-16T01:00:00Z I'm also possessed of enough Larkinian self-disgust to have indulged in plenty of puerile sniggering about the body in my fiction. Will Self: modernism and me 2012-08-03T21:55:10Z Mr. Valdés has long been a pianist of imperial command, possessed of a dazzling, deceptively casual virtuosity. Music Review: Chucho Vald?s Plays With the Afro-Cuban Messengers 2012-01-24T23:07:41Z Chester Nimitz, the senior Navy officer in the Pacific in World War II. First, Nimitz possessed the enviable ability to work calmly and patiently with all sorts of people. What Remains to Be Said About World War II? Plenty, These Authors Suggest 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Those little laminated tags were a delightful testament to the sense of humor and unusual unselfconsciousness possessed by one of the world’s most relentlessly scrutinized women. Auction Shows Elizabeth Taylor?s Star Still Shines 2011-12-16T23:29:38Z The undocumented couriers we interviewed were aged between 20 and 40 and possessed little or no English. How undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Whatever his subject, he possessed an aloof, silvery style — a cool envelope for the hot material. A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z They also had a syndicated newspaper column, offering tips to those who viewed their cars as the offspring of Stephen King’s possessed vehicle Christine. Tom Magliozzi, half of the irreverent ‘Car Talk’ duo that made auto repair fun, dies Kat becomes possessed by some unseen evil, the mysterious Joan — with few possessions and haunted eyes — begins a journey towards the school. Kiernan Shipka on her horror flick “February” and those Sally Draper “Mad Men” spinoff rumors: “It’s not a thing” 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Whenever Vanessa was possessed by the Devil—which happened with notable regularity, as befits a penny dreadful—the first horror was always the moment you realized how easily the Devil handles Victorian small talk. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z When London felt that a budding talent possessed unusual qualities, he was ready to supply what young singers perhaps needed most of all: the self-confidence to explore their full potential. Music: George London Foundation Contest Set for Morgan Library 2012-02-12T15:44:19Z But Hitchcock isn’t simply taken with “Psycho,” he also becomes possessed by it. Movie Review: ‘Hitchcock,’ With Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren 2012-11-22T22:23:25Z The Tehuelche hunter-gatherers who once dwelled here called this moonscape both “the place of desolation” and “the devil’s country,” and believed that evil spirits possessed it. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Firsthand accounts suggest that the real Lottie Gee possessed those same traits. Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z And that, it was “so ironic that as a father Hunter passed on so few traditions, yet he possessed these traditional reflexes that would show themselves unexpectedly.” Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z A food scientist and nutritionist, my mother was always trying to sneak nutrient-rich elements into everything our family ate, and she possessed an exceptional knack for finding great-quality ingredients. Three Restorative Recipes to Warm From Within 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z My daughter, who's now in her mid-20s, was justifiably angry at me many times because I was possessed by art. Jenny Holzer – portrait of the artist 2013-02-05T17:39:49Z No one label seemed to fully describe Robin Williams, the actor and comedian who died in 2014; no one performance of his adequately encompasses all the talents he possessed. The Robin Williams Auction: On the Wall and Off the Wall 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But his work burst with generous humanity and possessed a sure grasp on the power of intimacy — something these productions skillfully bring to the fore. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Nicotra cast a wide net in the types of documents he counterfeited, and seems to have possessed real talent and learning. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z He is taller, smarter and possessed of social skills not seen in Turnbow men: handsome, Harvard educated, African-American with a lilting Virgin Islands accent, and named after poets. Books of The Times: Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Flight Behavior’ 2012-11-18T22:17:53Z With arms shaking as if possessed, Gira dances to dirty street funk that morphs into free jazz. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z She possessed operatic range, which she deployed not to achieve a common standard of virtuosic beauty but to explore the limits of what a human voice could do—or imagine. Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Almost a decade ago, a scruffy leather-clad Canadian who played guitar like a man possessed turned up on the Seattle rock scene’s doorstep, presumably reeking of sweat and fog machine. After rapid rise with no album, blues-rock hellion Reignwolf returns to Seattle with long-awaited debut 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Accordingly, he is possessed of a physical and mental energy dialed between charmingly frenetic and outright manic. For a Composer’s Style, Statement Pieces to Play and Wear 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z She already possessed a husky rasp and applied a shrewd sense of rhythm to her phrasing. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z One begins: “Hanne was only 7, but she already possessed a great deal of formless anxiety.” Tove Ditlevsen’s Fiction Is Bleak and Claustrophobic — Mostly in a Good Way 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z She was constantly confronted by the figure of her sister Diana, a political extremist who possessed an otherworldly power of commanding idolatry. In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z A Norse rune reader told me I possessed “dark magic”; a crystal ball reader told me I was “very psychic”; a dominatrix-slash-medium told me I was a latent witch. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Eventually, religious leaders decided that Doe was possessed by the Devil. A live exorcism will be performed on TV Friday. Here’s what to expect. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “We sound possessed on these songs, willing it all -- the entire weight of the band and what it means to us -- back into existence,” Brownstein said in a statement. Sleater-Kinney releases comeback single, unveils tour dates 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z In a note preceding the text Williams paid tribute to Chekhov as a “quiet and delicate writer whose huge power was always held in restraint,” and acknowledged that he himself possessed “quite different qualities.” Theater Review: ‘The Notebook of Trigorin’ by Tennessee Williams at the Flea 2013-05-09T02:00:02Z He possessed an energy, ambition, and charisma that few others could match. 'The Last Stand': An end for Custer, Sitting Bull and a way of life 2010-05-12T23:19:00Z At the time, I wondered what in the world possessed the intelligent and worldly Rampling to say something so ignorant—and imprudent—on a live broadcast. My 2016 Oscar Predictions 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The trailer involves clues packaged in the backs of clocks, Nazis, possessed babies, and various other artifacts left over from the “Alias” or “DaVinci Code” sets. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z By way of contrast, Keats instances Shakespeare, who, possessed of Negative Capability, was content to allow "uncertainties, mysteries and doubts" without attempting to resolve or rationalise them. Why literary archives are like monkfish 2011-01-21T10:46:31Z It took some time for me to unpack that this was a toy, a plastic-faced and felt-bodied toy that other children in my son's class possessed. How I learned to stop worrying and love Elf on the Shelf 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The young French artist possessed the natural skill, cultivated intellect and sheer, naked ambition to make the most of a social reality riven with contradictions. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The hotel isn't alive: Jack might be possessed, he might not. Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining 2012-06-22T11:32:40Z With loud shrieks written in all caps, unclean spirits tweeted their way out of those who were possessed. "Jeopardy!" fans, LeVar Burton still might not have a chance – or may not want one anymore 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z And he hoofs like a demon possessed in one of the best numbers,"A Major Award." Review: 'A Christmas Story' on stage will please fans of the movie 2010-12-10T22:43:00Z Mercury, who played piano and guitar, is of course depicted as being possessed of a formidable vocal technique, a remarkable near-operatic voice—but it’s presented as a natural gift that’s also a curse. In “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddie Mercury Is More Interesting Than His Music 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Despite being possessed by the embodiment of evil, throughout all of this Lenny also remains Haller’s close pal from the psychiatric hospital, and Plaza interprets the original characters’ relationship as sexual too. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Then another, and another—he still possessed three bottles, which had been secreted who-knows-where, in his sleeves or in the trench coat’s interior pockets. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Goth might remind you at times of Judy Garland in youth, of Shelley Duvall in the ’70s, or of a demonically possessed Raggedy Ann doll, but she has her own fearless and forthright intensity. ‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “I live fixed on you like a man possessed except for the moments when I read or write,” Mistral wrote in 1950. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Jacqueline Green was a shy 13-year-old when her mother, considering possible schools in Baltimore, observed two qualities that her daughter possessed. That Goddess Quality? This Ailey Dancer’s Got It 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Cesarani faults the Jewish leaders in Poland not for things over which they had no control, but for their venality and social conservatism when it came to allocating the scant resources they possessed. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z This is what Philip Pullman, author of the beloved trilogy of children’s novels “His Dark Materials,” identifies as a quality Charles Dickens possessed “in abundance.” Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z But he also possessed a photographic memory, a lush imagination, an uncanny instinct for the right moment, highly developed communication skills and a passion for stardom. A New Biography of Ronald Reagan Captures His Passion for Stardom 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z One early prediction nearly convinced me that I was the one who possessed the dark superpower. My Father and Sandy Koufax 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z He seemed shy and timid, but he possessed a deeply uncompromising spirit. Joan Mir?: at home in exile 2011-04-08T23:05:56Z But the show’s characters weren’t caricatures; in fact, its female characters especially possessed uncommon complexity. The genius of “Gilmore Girls”: When your writing is this good, you can always go home again — even to Stars Hollow 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Best of all, the whole season took a mere 10 half-hour episodes, which flew by but possessed the screen as if they had all the time in the world. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z While Kat claims that her behavior is merely her way of protecting her meal ticket, it’s obvious that she’s possessed by a sense of purpose as well. How Mumblecore Brings Out the Best in Actors 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The voices in Ada’s mind build creatively on a consistent belief about madness: that in the height of suffering, sufferers are not themselves; they become possessed by different spirits. In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z For the first time you could believe that Claggart himself once possessed a similar, Billy-type "handsome sailor" beauty before life, in some unspoken way, betrayed him. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z The opening image, however, gives us three women moving with sharp force, as if possessed. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Lay possessed “strong understanding and great integrity,” but was “singular” and “eccentric.” A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z So what possessed a privileged woman in her prime to commit suicide? 'Clover Adams': a brilliant mind's path into darkness 2012-03-01T00:11:07Z Baryshnikov, possessed of such expressive grace, conveys all of this unshowily. ‘The Hunting Gun’ Review: Letters to Burn After Reading 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Rice, who played in front of a capacity crowd Friday night at the Fillmore Silver Spring, is self-aware, possessed of a sense of humor and not above trolling his would-be antagonists. Chase Rice brings bro-country to the Fillmore Silver Spring 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z “The Exorcist,” the story of a 12-year-old girl possessed by the Devil, was published in 1971 and sold more than 13 million copies. William Peter Blatty, Author of ‘The Exorcist,’ Dies at 89 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Some said that black people possessed less righteous souls than white people did. Mormons confront a history of Church racism 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z A unifying, coherent philosophy is possessed by each, and both execute it propulsively and faithfully. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z Engulfed by her gestural movement, she drops to the floor and rises again and again as if possessed by spirits. Review: Okwui Okpokwasili Gives Voice to the Ignored and Oppressed 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z I played my part, believing that I possessed the unique ability to hold her desolation in check. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z A possessed girl of the town floats; the chalk-drawn images on a blackboard dance; an untethered wolf — played by a Tamaskan Dog — prowls the stage. ‘The Crucible’ as you’ve never seen it 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The cartoonish, sometimes possessed looks of his creatures recall imagery from Japanese mythology and medieval bestiaries. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z On set, the kids are both full of capering zest and possessed of that sort of big-kid poise that develops in your early teens. Stories from the Set of Stranger Things, the TV Escape We Need Right Now 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The writer Bill Parker came up with the idea of a team of superheroes, each of whom possessed the power of a different mythological figure. Shazam Is Back. Wait, Who Is He Again? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z With life experiences like those behind her, the extreme plot machinations of Hollywood melodrama must have possessed an everyday familiarity for Stanwyck. DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z It imbued what the ensembles he led already possessed with a deeper integrity, a weight, a gravity, that was nonetheless rarely portentous or heavy. Bernard Haitink, Perhaps the Wisest Conductor of Them All 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z She is certainly possessed of the perfect surname. Books of The Times: Jessica Stern?s ?Denial? Returns to a Dark Past 2010-06-24T20:41:00Z Arena is too intelligent and possessed of canny Neapolitan guile to play the game the Italian press wants of him, and recount his Camorrista life in detail. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z We knew that the Knausgaardian mode of autofiction possessed a weird magnetism, but maybe it took a confessional Texas politician blowing off steam online for us to see just how much. Beto O‘Rourke‘s Rebirth as a Knausgaardian Blogger 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z What is a family to do when one son vanishes, another child becomes possessed and all the barn animals begin showing signs of malice? Paranoia Reigns in the Trailer for 'The Witch' 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “So much of what she possessed, to boil it down, was agency,” Bravo notes. Perspective | ‘Female agency’ is Hollywood’s latest catchphrase. ‘Zola’ takes it further. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z She also doesn't know how to undo any of those spells, since technically she was possessed by the spirit of a 16th-century Necromancer priestess when she cast them. "True Blood" 4x5: Vampire history lessons 2011-07-25T11:20:00Z But it also stripped the show of the few spontaneous moments it once possessed. Hollywood Film Awards launch Oscar season with two-hour infomercial 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z “In those earliest days as a brand new arts space we sought to collaborate with artists that possessed visions beyond what was imaginable in such a small space.” What to see this week: comedians of color, Clyde Petersen’s vision of the Northwest and DIY art 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Was this writer a mere individual possessed of his own free will, he would have quite happily let the xx's subtle majesty slip him into a trance before wandering home woozy and spellbound. Coachella festival 2013 day two: Phoenix, Hot Chip and Savages 2013-04-14T12:11:14Z Yet along with his artistic skills, Lear possessed a genial surface personality that made him more than welcome at the country-house weekends of the well-born and well-to-do. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Thinking he was either using drugs or possessed by an evil spirit, they took him to the mosque for an exorcism. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z The actress also appeared in over 50 movies, with memorable turns in BAFTA-winning performances in Charlie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve, as well as her role as the possessed nanny, Mrs. Baylock, in The Omen. Stage and Film Actress Billie Whitelaw Dead at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Lawrence is excellent as Ree: intelligent, and possessed of a moral courage that commands respect. Film review: Winter's Bone 2010-09-16T21:42:00Z She sees "possessed" children beaten by smiling pastors, and meets others accused of harbouring evil spirits. TV highlights 20/05/2013 2013-05-20T06:00:13Z His seriousness enables the movie’s desire to dig into the mechanics of the climactic exorcism - though Sean Harris, drooling and growling and threatening as the possessed man, deserves credit as well. Review: ‘Evil’ mostly delivers 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Would that the producers of the 2020 Oscars possessed such mastery of measure. Big wins for "Parasite" including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Gone are the days of hand-drawn studio posters that possessed a creativity and artistry matching that of the films themselves. Movie Posters are the Business of Mondo 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z People were invited to weigh in, and Twitter was possessed with the possessive—or at least with the “S” following the apostrophe to form the possessive of a noun ending in a sibilant. Mary Norris’s Thoughts on Pesky Possessives 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z It's easy to forget just what an indelible impact The Sopranos has had on television; few serialised dramas before its inception possessed such an intricately layered universe, and even fewer took so many creative risks. Tonight's TV highlights: Madagascar 2011-02-09T00:05:01Z It endures because its language is enchanting, and that enchantment draws its power from the deep wells of feeling Fitzgerald possessed, palpable on the page, palpable even in a dingy ofice. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z She moved to New York in 1939, where she performed as a possessed woman muttering “voodoo” incantations and playing the drums. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z How might he have evoked such a transition from a man exhausted with white exploitation into someone possessed by an impulse that's as repulsive as it is beckoning? No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z The team’s main goal was to bring back live specimens that no other zoo in the world possessed. Don’t Try to Catch a Komodo Dragon — Unless You’re David Attenborough 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z He loved to tease, possessed a “queenly persona”, snubbed people who failed to interest him and “had a tongue like a viper if he wanted to use it”. Shades of Byzantium 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Webb was lucky in that he possessed both ambition and artistic talent. T Magazine: The Ring Cycle 2011-11-28T15:00:57Z Lead character Jackie Estacado is a mafia don possessed by a demon, his condition taking the form of snake-like tendrils and an aversion to light, and he is capable of doing some extremely reprehensible things. The Darkness II ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:42Z Asked if an artist with as much choice and freedom as he possessed ran the risk of creating nothing at all, Mr. Myers offered a cryptic response that seemed to mean no. Mike Myers Tries Directing a Documentary 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The dancers power through as though possessed by mischievous spirits, with pratfalls for levity. In Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project program, the name to remember is Noé Soulier 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Before she became a registered nurse, a wife and a mother of four, Fitzpatrick was an amateur photographer possessed with passion and guided by instinct. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z George Orwell, himself a genius at political satire, noted that Swift “possessed a terrible intensity of vision, capable of picking out a single hidden truth and then magnifying it and distorting it.” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Maybe we know deep down that at his age we too possessed such qualities. Submarine plumbs the depths of self-satisfaction 2011-03-21T10:31:19Z There's also a spot of proper scariness from the possessed coma patients – and Moffat once again displays a mastery of childhood paranoias. Doctor Who: Matt Smith's debut in The Eleventh Hour - the verdict 2010-04-03T18:25:00Z Sure, PBS geeks and HBO fans might buy the boxed sets of "Pride and Prejudice" or "The Sopranos," but for most people, television was something you did, not something you possessed. How TV's age of exploration took off in a huge way 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z But Curtis also possessed a Sidney Falconian drive, drive, drive, an acute sense of his attributes and the brains and balls to use them. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z The authors of classic novels are primarily white men who possessed a Eurocentric view of the world. Letters to the Editor 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z You were young and you got to stay up late, curl up on the sofa with a snugly blanket and buttered popcorn, and you watched Linda Blair get possessed by a demon in “The Exorcist.” When Did You Watch Your First Scary Movie? We Want to Know. 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z TIME: What on earth possessed you to try to do this live? Les Misérables Director Tom Hooper on Choosing His Stars and Creating New Songs 2012-12-21T10:45:36Z Both father and son possessed blistering slap shots. For Father’s Day, let’s remember the sports dads. Some were also pros. 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z He is possessed with an uncanny calm as he is about to become forever targeted. Citizenfour review – Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z German school paintings were the great beneficiaries of the bullish mood that possessed bidders throughout the session. Auctions: Christie's Sale Soars, Driven by Beyeler Estate 2011-06-22T12:00:06Z Several years earlier, the producers of “The Exorcist” considered casting Ms. Curtis as the possessed child Regan, but Ms. Leigh wouldn’t allow it. ‘Halloween’ at 40: Their ‘Horrible Idea’ Became a Horror Classic 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But until recently they rarely possessed the means to explain themselves. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “At Çatalhöyük in the cave paintings,” Murphy explains, “you see transformation figures of people essentially possessed by the spirit of leopards.” The Cabiri’s new show: were-cats and creation myth 2013-08-02T19:56:04Z There’s a magical quality to the yarn, as if it often possessed a soft fuzzy glow. E3: 'Unravel' ties together loss, loneliness and heart with one yarn doll 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But Shelley’s monster always possessed a racial dimension that only a smattering of scholars have dared to confront. ‘The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster’ Review: Death Transforms Her 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z But that simply may be because Perlman can no longer achieve the beautiful sound he once possessed. John Williams' mastery on display at L.A. Philharmonic season opener 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Ultimately, she discovers that her newly installed hair is possessed, taking over her body and causing harm to others. ‘Bad Hair’ movie explores Black women and hairstyle messages 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Greenwood, possessed ambition and smarts in addition to poise, beauty and wit. Stolen Bits of Time Turned Into a Lifetime Together 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z In their absence, Sibley decided to employ kitchen witchery to discern who or what had possessed the girls. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z He is encouraged by the sacristan to buy an antique manuscript volume which is possessed of older and evil memories. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z Sometimes he balanced on one leg, while the other leg palpitated as if possessed. Savion Glover, and his feet, tapped out a show as if the audience wasn’t there 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z I can’t forget a solo in which one man, his back to us, danced as if his right shoulder and left foot were following different drummers, as if possessed. Rendering ‘On the Road’ as Dance? That and Other Audacities 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Crowe has never possessed much dramatic range, but he can be -- and sometimes is here -- a tremendously charismatic screen presence who imparts an air of naturalness even to stupid roles in stupid movies. "Robin Hood's" smoldering adult romance 2010-05-14T00:20:00Z A storm is a “great equalizer,” she says, describing how nature howls “like it’s in heat” and how the trees shake “as though possessed.” Williamstown Theater Festival Tries to Weather the Storms 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z With his Greek god physique, Roman good looks and big, sad eyes, Stallone possessed a pathos and a scuffed-up Everyman patina that other hulks of that age lacked. In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Or that there really are rhymes for “meniscus”? Or that any performer possessed the concentration to keep all these words in play for the entire performance? ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z He liked human beings most when they are unguarded, naive and possessed by a simple faith in life. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z She possessed a faith in ingredients that deepen in flavor as they simmer, ingredients I knew well. This Lemon Pie Captures the Feeling of Home 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Early inquiries with foreign studios dead-ended in a thicket of legal fears and uncertainty over who — if anyone — possessed the missing material. ‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Why Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Film Is Still Lost 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The evening dresses of crepe, velvet, plissé and brocade, mostly nocturnal navy and occasionally caped, possessed the discreet grandeur that is the real promise of couture. | Valentino 2012-07-05T15:30:30Z “She possessed a very good eye. She was very skilled in the art of composition and also in technique,” said Sue Canterbury, curator of American art the museum and organizer of the exhibition. Works of Georgia O’Keeffe’s sister to be exhibited 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z She possessed an uncommon versatility, as happy in Chekhov and Ibsen as she was feeding lines to Les Dawson, whom she adored. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z Cheung, possessed of both bravura technique and telling stillness, radiates this inner tangle, which the interstitial musical numbers, done in Japanese with subtitles on designer Tesshi Nakagawa's dual perspective set, certainly demonstrate by default. In 'Takarazuka!!!,' coming of age in a blend of gender roles 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But for the moment, we possessed the stage-set of a prosperous life. Barbra Streisand, James Corden and More on Their Favorite Sondheim Song 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z She acted possessed—tears, rage, etc.—throughout the field sobriety tests and Officer Taylor’s reading of the No Refusal law. A DWI offer you can’t refuse 2012-11-23T00:00:00Z She was not volatile like Degas but possessed, as one male friend put it, "an electric vitality." Exhibit shows Degas' and Cassatt's painterly influence on each other 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But then Jackson possessed an almost preternatural gift for evoking uneasiness, that almost indefinable sense that something is badly out of kilter. New collection of Shirley Jackson writings is best left to devoted fans 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z What possessed you to delve into the highly specialized, and some might say "anoraky," world of period performance, using gut strings instead of metal -- which produce a bigger sound? Mullova adds "danger" to the art of music making 2010-09-22T13:36:00Z Audubon was part frontiersman, part artist, and possessed a rare, almost unequaled ability to observe, catalog and paint the birds he observed in the wild. Rare Audubon `Birds of America' to be auctioned 2010-12-07T16:06:00Z The exercise, Mr. Cooke explained, would exploit the finely turned spatial memory possessed by human beings to structure and store the information. Books of The Times: Remember: It?s Important Not to Forget 2011-03-07T17:58:36Z Julia’s ghost may not have shown herself to me, but the spirit of her adopted home most certainly did, and I remain possessed. In Santa Fe, searching for a ghost and finding enchantment 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z At some level, they become possessed by their story. The psychoanalyst's tale – why we need to tell stories to relieve our sorrows 2013-01-07T19:00:03Z Wagner, astonished, proclaimed Saint-Saëns possessed a great musical mind. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z The heroes who most appeal to Sorkin all have one thing in common: a kind of old-world “integrity” that his late father possessed. Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z "The market power possessed by these media conglomerates allows them to capture a majority of the economic value created by television production to the detriment of actual content creators," Keyser said. AT&T and DirecTV defend deal on Capitol Hill 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Byron and Harold clearly had a lot in common: they were both British, noble and young; they possessed "ancient piles" and had travelled the continent. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Conviction, in the rare instances in which it is possessed, is rarely of the progressive cast. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Law, who plays Wolfe as exuberant in life as he wrote on the page, said that he and Firth had been eager to capture “the speed of thought” that Perkins and Wolfe possessed. Colin Firth at the Berlin film festival: 'If someone wants me to wear a mankini in a film, I will' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Q: Your latest film, "The Last Exorcism," is about a young woman possessed by the devil. Horror filmmaker Eli Roth talks exorcisms in new movie 2010-08-27T10:02:00Z Its performance possessed a passionate single-mindedness that wound up serving all of the score’s varied moods, right through to a finale of exhilarating panache. A trio brings big emotion to the chamber repertory 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z That scene is upsetting enough — as his parents argue, the boy’s face looks eerily possessed — but director David Lynch punctuates it with the incessant horn blast of the car behind them. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 11: There’s No Backup for This 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And genius was something Amy Winehouse possessed in abundance; the ill-starred singer, some suggested, had more gifts than she knew how to use. A Bad Girl With a Touch of Genius 2011-07-27T21:06:38Z If only “The Wind in the Willows” possessed even a smidgen of the energy that sends “Bat Out of Hell” into the stratosphere. A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Not much happens at first, except that the dog, possessed of a keen sense for paranormal, rarely gets a good night sleep. Paranormal Activity 2: This Time, It's Impersonal 2010-10-22T18:20:00Z He emerges scarred, though possessed of new powers of invincibility and primed to take revenge on his enemies. Deadpool scores highest ever opening for R-rated movie at US box office 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Power possessed preternaturally good looks and charm to spare; women wanted to marry him, and men wanted to be his good friend. Tyrone Power had it all, but he wanted more 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The opening section's "incantation," with the horn approximating a shofar, possessed an elemental simplicity whose mood brought to mind the iconic sequence of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Review: Schwarz ushers in world premiere at Seattle's summer chamber-music festival 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z Ms. Jarrett possessed “virtually no campaign experience, at any level, making some of her critiques hard to take.” David Axelrod’s ‘Believer: My Forty Years in Politics’ 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Just as the last century was coming to a close, a young artist from Luxembourg named Michel Majerus was on a hot streak, possessed with apparently endless ideas about how to make a painting. Michel Majerus Saw the Future— 20 Years Ago 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z She is possessed of remarkably bright, gaze-holding eyes, enunciates like a tongue twister and speaks from her diaphragm. Keke Palmer Keeps a Check 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z But Willimon’s plot, which involves the blackmailing of a Trump appointee to get a closet Democrat on the bench, seems to demand an actress of more naturally devious impulses than are possessed by Thurman. Review | Is the real Washington this much of a snooze? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The male gaze, she said, which is “pretty much everything you’ve ever seen seen” on TV and film, presents women as objects to be gazed at and desired or possessed. Gaby Hoffmann’s radical bush: Let’s chat about pubic hair with the cast of “Transparent” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It only takes Claire about five minutes to realize that Scottish children are being “possessed” thanks to their consumption of lily of the valley, which they binge-eat like it’s going out of style. Outlander Recap: Claire Discovers the Folkloric Key to Her Escape 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z “Mustang” represented an exhilarating respite from the dreary, downbeat and formally uninteresting movies that dominated Cannes this year, a large number of which possessed an elegiac, almost funereal tone of unresolved grief. Top honor at Cannes goes to story of Sri Lankan immigrants in France 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z So the characters in the sequel recognize Nell as being that girl who breaks her fingers, does her back bend and acts possessed. Filmmaker Eli Roth returns for another "Last Exorcism" 2013-02-28T22:51:01Z He possessed a huge dislike for cats and insects. A Marriage Built on Compromise Grows Deeper During the Pandemic 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The delicate-featured but indefatigable Ms. Crawford, who is possessed of both a golden glow and a voice of brass, is pretty close to perfect in the title role. Theater Review: ‘Annie,’ Starring Katie Finneran, at the Palace Theater 2012-11-09T03:37:23Z Fans of the original books are keen on the idea his body is possessed by Bloodraven, the character who Bran finally met at the end of season four. Game of Thrones: every possible way Jon Snow could come back from the dead 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The husband seems possessed with fury as he almost pushes back his spouse with his left elbow. Art: At the National Gallery, Art That Made the Leap to Real Life 2011-04-29T11:57:27Z Novelist Mary Gordon wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “Elegy for Iris” possessed “a greatness that must be seen simultaneously in literary and moral terms.” John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The worst thing about the footballing Napoleon complex is that it's so possessive of a game that shouldn't, and ultimately can't, be possessed. Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I'm glad 2011-01-30T00:06:24Z The gyrating "Magic Mike XXL" star confessed to the daytime host that he was "terrified" of the figurines, because as a kid, he'd watched a TV show in which one was possessed. Watch Ellen DeGeneres creep out Channing Tatum with porcelain dolls 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “I was just possessed by it, the size of his anger, passions, love, regret, grief,” she said. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z My teachers told me I possessed an overactive imagination and that I was too sad, too quiet and too shy. Bring me to life: Evanescence helped me find my trans voice 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z He was possessed of extraordinarily powerful, complex, and contradictory emotions, desires, and ideas, which he transmuted into a similarly complex range of speech, both in manner and in substance. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z While Leach had long possessed an audio capture of a Nov. 6, 1974, performance in Albany, she believed a situation with the rights made it unreleasable. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In the end, her warmth was the strongest emotion she possessed. Becoming Francine du Plessix Gray 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending,” he reflects, “but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment.” A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Platitudes aside, it was a tremendously brave thing, since everyone knows that often there is a second bomb designed to punish those possessed of such merciful instincts. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z Language is an inherently spooky thing, and reading fiction can often feel like being possessed. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Trained initially as a bass-baritone, he possessed the heavy vocal power of a heldentenor, the type of voice suited for the dramatic roles of German opera. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But that’s OK, since van den Brink’s film throbs with suspense and lobs oddball scares, like an uncanny scene in which Betriek encounters a possessed kid in an elevator. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He'll scare off some people, others will listen to his possessed rhapsodising all night. Blog jam: Beard Rock 2013-03-13T10:00:00Z She possessed an unassertive goodness, which may well explain why she was so adept at making kind characters interesting. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z Zen is possessed of a unique reputation for incorruptibility, though he's not above playing the system if opportunity arises. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z What mattered, he contended, was that music, whether aspiring to sound vintage or “progressive,” still possessed the capacity to conjure a “new feeling” in its listeners. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z He possessed dozens of paintings, including masterpieces, by both his precursors and his contemporaries — from Delacroix and Corot to Manet, Renoir and Cézanne. A Glimpse Inside Claude Monet’s Private Art World 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z For three minutes, his eyelids twitch crazily, his mouth agape, like he’s possessed. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z White is a spiritual color in the African diaspora, and many of the women seemed to be sorceresses, adjusting incense and mirrors, cackling, shaking as if possessed by spirits. Review: A Boat Ride in the Bronx With Ancestral Spirits 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Since the Church of England possessed the Truth, its members should not tolerate all the misguided and dangerous works of the Great Deceiver. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Whether the house is truly possessed or whether she's losing her mind. "Shining Vale" creator on the horror of midlife: "Depression and possession share similar symptoms" 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z An easiness with her physical self that I’ve always wished I possessed. The menopause checkup 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z I possessed a kind of invisibility that I didn’t in the U.S; people had fewer preconceptions of me based on my appearance, and therefore there was little for me to disprove. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The house had no electricity and only the parlour and scullery possessed a gaslight fixture. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z I was 28 at the time, and possessed a shocking naïveté about many things, including: men, professors, academia, workshops, fairness, and life. My literary nemesis 2012-07-26T18:57:00Z Collette, in the gutsiest and most wrenching performance of her career, plays a woman quite literally and violently possessed by her own grief. The horror of grief: how loss is the ultimate boogeyman in Hereditary 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Other neighborhoods possessed the unnerving stillness of paintings by de Chirico, Magritte or Hopper. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z At no point in his life has Rob possessed Lloyd’s earnestness, openness and emotional generosity. High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Rock music is really just the finish line for everything that has been possessed by terrible afflictions. New Music: Ariel Pink- Before Today 2010-06-01T16:26:00Z “The Terror: Infamy” opens with a possessed woman jerkily walking down a pier, the bones in her neck and ankles cracking with each agonizing step. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z What she has that few others have so fully possessed are the gifts of a captivating storyteller, the ability to turn messy life into a tale for the ages of lost innocence and squandered youth. Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z People don't so much play the part as get possessed by it. 'Annie' with a bad attitude: 'Hedwig' rocks the Pantages 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A holiday special is derailed when a demonically possessed nutcracker kills Neil Patrick Harris. Amy Sedaris Is Excited for the Emmys. She Just Has to Find a Rabbit Sitter. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z This scene is one of two interviews with Janet Hodgon, the little girl that is supposedly haunted and possessed by the entity that lives in this house. James Wan Narrates a Scene From ‘The Conjuring 2’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z |
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