Some violent emotion seemed to be mastering him. 
A violent emotion bested him.
A sweet emotion mastered him.
I think it's completely unreasonable to even ask him to remove his clothes at an orgy.
The boy is covered in mud.
An older man is sifting through a stack of pots
He went to his uncle's home the next morning.
The man was skiing on the alps all morning
Don't pity Clift.