49 examples of diabolic in sentences
If his deductions could have been proved to be correct, all women were creatures who, by reason of their sevenfold diabolic possession, were not capable of independent thought or action, and who should in tears and humility place themselves absolutely under the direction and authority of the other sex.
For common to antiquity is the notion of some kind of possession or seizure, some usurpation of the soul's faculties by an external personality, divine or diabolic, for its own service and as its instrument of expressiona phenomenon, in fact, quite analogous, if not the same in species, with that of hypnotic control and suggestion, where the thought and will of the subject is simply passive under the thought and will of the agent.
Put it how we will, it cannot be denied that belief in divination, in diabolic possession, and in magic, has largely contributed to belief in spirits; and that to ignore this contribution by throwing the whole burden on ordinary dreams is unscientific.
Among all that thy books taught thee, they did not open to thee much of the depths of that human heart which thy dogmas taught thee to despise as diabolic.
Sir, there was a sneer of triumph on it that was diabolic and prophetic.
It seemed as if all the world were rocking with diabolic laughterFate plans such amusing things!
His steady sense of order, justice, and government, broken as it was by fits of violent passion, resumed its sway as soon as the storm was over; but the awful wrath which would suddenly break forth, when the king's face changed, and he rolled on the ground in a paroxysm of madness, seemed to have something of diabolic origin.
a century earlier had suggested that kingly power was of diabolic origin.
The chief centre of this detestable system is St. Vincent, whereso I was told by one who knows that island wellsome sort of secret College, or School of the Prophets Diabolic, exists.
Were they Trolls forging diabolic enginery, or Gypsies of Yankeedom?
Her amusement was the stock market and she played it cannily and with considerable success with his rather diabolic encouragement.
But with Paula these activities had to be sandwiched in with daily rehearsals,long ones, too,hours with Novelli while she memorized half-forgotten parts, interviews with reporters, struggles with photographers, everything that the diabolic ingenuity of the publicity man could contrive.
Professor Marshall faced the piano again and precipitated himself headlong into the diabolic accelerandos of "The Hall of the Mountain-King."
As I had, however, to reach the gorge of the Tarn before nightfall, and it was still far off, I only took away two souvenirs of the diabolic gardena white scabious and a bit of rock-potentil.
And the Devil began to swell and rise To his own diabolic dimensions.
A voice was singing with diabolic satisfaction in the captain's brain: "Now it is ripe!...
Out of the perverse and totally depraved negative,where it might almost seem as if some magic and diabolic power had wrenched all things from their proprieties, where the light of the eye was darkness, and the deepest blackness was gilded with the brightest glare,is to come the true end of all this series of operations, a copy of Nature in all her sweet gradations and harmonies and contrasts.
The diabolic thing raged through the shut house, knowing that it went unchallenged, that its utmost violence was licensed until the day after the concert.
"In the wars of the next century we do not often find these examples of diabolic atrocity with which the earlier annals were crowded.
Despite its prolixity, its unconventional form and what, under other circumstances, would be characterized as almost diabolic impudence and familiarity, my letter, as he said months later when I talked with him, "rang true."
Some view our sable race with scornful eye, 'Their color is a diabolic dye.' Remember, Christians, Negroes black as Cain, May be refined, and join th' angelic train.
It is a triumph of the poetic or artistic part of the author's nature over the merely political part, that he should have made even his type of the old feudal order which he execrates so bitterly, a heroic, if ever so little also a diabolic, personage.
but I saw him, One great head with goggle eyes, Like a diabolic cherub Flying in those fallen skies.
The blacksmith was reputed to be a sort of "hex" or male-witch, and the farmer believed in his diabolic powers and was very much in fear of them.
Their diabolic fury implies a concentration of force that must of necessity weaken as it flows out away from the center.