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
But older, and in part foreign, influences concurred to colour and qualify, while they sustained, the Nietzschean influence,—the daemonic power of Carlyle, the iron intensity and masterful reticence of Ibsen.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
It was by a natural instinct that the Antonine Platonists went back to the great teacher of Plato for support of the system which was to link religion with philosophy by the daemonic theory.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
