Dark air like demonic possession, a sharp path cut across the land by meteorological shears.
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His party political broadcast a solo performance, complete with mad staring eyes struck some as demonic.
But that love led him to headlong support of a French Revolution that proved more demonic than liberating.
The sprawling plot unfolds as Sookie is pursued by demonic forces and framed for murder, while several supernatural suitors vie for her affection.
According to repeated polling data, the majority of Turks believe that Israel and America are demonic, murderous nations that kill innocent people for entertainment.
The United States Senate in the role of the morally outraged provocateurs, hoping to goad Wall Streeters into revealing their demonic horns and tails.
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The attractive German soprano has a rich, almost venomous voice and a gimlet eye, conveying both the demonic and seductive sides of her character.
What's missing most from his performance, though, is demonic sizzle, a sense of the wild internal conflicts that make Javert's demise necessary, not just inevitable.
Demonic spirits are said to lurk all around, with landmarks and prominent natural objects their favoured hiding places - crossroads, graveyards, rivers, large rocks, particular trees.
The production, which starred Michael Ball as the demonic barber and Imelda Staunton as the pie-making Mrs Lovett, recently ended a run in the West End.
And since we already know the ending, attempts to build tension flounder - despite an almost demonic turn from Gerard McSorley as Veronica's chief adversary John Gilligan.
The snobs, drunkards, pedophiles, fools, tyrants, and addicts who pass through these pages are garishly demonic, in a way that seems at once contemporary and oddly timeless.
But even the most demonic assassin would have found it hard to plan the circumstances of her death (an impromptu high-speed late-night ride with a drunken driver).
He highlights neatly (and hilariously) Waugh's demonic streak of prankishness: insisting to the bafflement and fury of all and sundry that Tito, the Yugoslav leader, was a woman.
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The appalling footage of the dead Tochi Scout is followed by what can only be described as demonic-appearing Taliban jihadi railing against Pakistani Army soldiers. (Remarks are an excerpt).
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Maybe, I thought, if I ordered this wireless Kindle 2 I would be pulled into a world of compulsive, demonic book consumption, like Pippin staring at the stone of Orthanc.
"I will also try my best to feed in their demonic appetite of fear and paranoia by posting any pictures that I receive through other means, " he said on his blog.
Totalitarianism makes the fantastic literal that is its demonic appeal.
Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.
Dogs are said to have an instinctive ability to detect the demonic spirits that are so significant to Balinese beliefs, their barks being welcomed at night as they chase negative forces away.
Today as most days, offerings are being placed in the doorways of the houses and ornate family temples, at ground level to ward off demonic spirits and higher up to welcome the sun.
Beginning May 15, players around the world will be able to return to Tristram to discover the dark secrets of a fallen star and begin their quest to save Sanctuary from the impending demonic invasion.
Ten years ago, when Mississippi was fighting the demonic aspects of high-stakes gambling in its state legislature, no one could have foreseen the impact the industry would have on the poorest part of the state.
After his arrest in 2001, "lurid and demonic" artwork and verse, some depicting the death of Miss Halstead, were found in north London home, along with a machete and a garrotte made from bamboo and wire.
Both sides admitted he was a demonic and depraved creature but his wife's barrister, Richard Ferguson QC, sought to paint a picture of a household where the wife carried on her domestic duties blissfully unaware of her husband's debauchery.
Players will discover an entirely new chapter of Elder Scrolls history in this ambitious world, set a millennium before the events of Skyrim as the daedric prince Molag Bal tries to pull all of Tamriel into his demonic realm.
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Many see him as an almost demonic figure, single-handedly responsible for bringing hardship to the people and letting corruption overtake the country even as he cynically pressed almost every panic button, including one labelled xenophobia, in the Czechs' psychology.
Although his star has fallen in great part to his own actions, as I have said often: Brett was not as angelic as he was made out to be in his time in Green Bay nor as demonic as he has been made out to be lately.
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In 2016, she is scheduled to sing Elsa in "Lohengrin" in Dresden under the baton of Christian Thielemann, whose "demonic energy" she likens to that of Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor who has played paterfamilias to a generation of singers from the former Soviet Union, including Ms. Netrebko.
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