Example Sentences

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Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit.

From Time Magazine Archive

No kin to his sister Swede, 41-year-old Ingmar Bergman is one of the most peculiarly gifted and demoniacally creative moviemakers of modern times�"a gothic Dante," one European critic called him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Above them, gargoyles leer demoniacally over the heads of devout cherubim.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

But I have always thought that you have more cause than I to be demoniacally inclined towards him.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir