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
Charles Péguy's brief career was shaped from his first entrance, poor and of peasant birth, at a Paris Lycée, to his heroic death in the field, September 1914, by a daemonic force of character.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
I was daemonic in giving myself this reply it seemed to me that I had solved the riddle of my nature.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
