demonic
adjective
inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
Example Sentences
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Heading backstage, my group’s leader played Healer Lenore, a self-help guru who used a question-and-answer session to cleanse us of daemonic energy — or at least make peace with it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
Tokarczuk sticks close to the historical record, but fills its gaps with made-up characters and charges the atmosphere with the daemonic energy of Jewish folk magic and a sense that God lurks nearby.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Giovanni Pisano, who died some time before 1320, was one of the daemonic figures of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a shrewdly intelligent young fellow of my own age criticised my work from the assumption that the daemonic did not exist, I thought him ridiculous.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
But to men of genius—"Minions of the Morning Star"—the path is not unknown, and for this reason the daemonic element constantly shows itself in their works and in their lives.
From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Claude Fayette Bragdon
