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
There is in the music a daemonic quality, inherent in the subject, that somehow vanishes with the concrete tale.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
This riddling quality is the daemonic element which he possessed in common with Plato; because of it these two are the masters of a refined and subtle irony, a source of the keenest pleasure.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
