Diabolic

In her presence and before the whole household he repeated his false story, and clung to it with a bitter effrontery that we may well call diabolic, remembering how the nervous terror of punishment and exposure sinks the angel in man. ❋ Morley, John (1905)

These examples are but typical of myriads in cathedrals and abbeys and parish churches throughout Europe; and all served to impress upon the popular mind a horror of everything called diabolic, and a hatred of those charged with it. ❋ Unknown (1896)

But to accomplish this work, which we may also call diabolic, isn't an androgynous genius necessary? ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

In a very Screwtapian, that is to say diabolic irony, these nobler ideals are often the best disguise for our group selfishness, for we can thereby disguise our primitiveness even from ourselves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My spell checker suggested this should be spelled "diabolic". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word 'diabolic' itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to "pass beyond" or "over", from the root dia - "through" and, as a causal accusative, "with the aid of". ❋ Unknown (1992)

When we go to war, we have to have an evil enemy, a kind of diabolic enemy. ❋ Unknown (1990)

That's the kind of diabolic prevarication I like to see my followers use to attack my enemies.) "No doubt some far-left pundits have said far worse things than Ann Coulter will ever say and the mainstream media often celebrates them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, I KNOW someone out there must be immune to the diabolic effects of this device and would love to have it. ❋ P_n_elrod (2010)

Thus, though practical generosity and superficial comradeship were more usual than with us, the most diabolic mental persecution was perpetrated with a clear conscience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In The Invention of Lying, which he co-wrote and co-directed, he plays Mark Bellison, a sad sack “in a world where everyone can only tell the TRUTH,” who suddenly becomes the first man to wield the diabolic power of a lie — or as the Brits call it, a “porky pie.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The tiny village of Baur came under attack in 1483 by “forces dark and overwhelming, ” long postulated to be brigands or barbarians (though hidden histories mark the attackers as diabolic and certainly of fell origins). ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Recently I discovered that to preserve their diabolic power, vampires must sleep during the day in the same unhallowed ground in which they had been buried.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their goal is to destabilize a world order that they deem to be unjust and diabolic: global, Western-led capitalism and secular culture. ❋ Carlo Strenger (2011)

The first was enough diabolic in contour to shake a good man half out of his bones. ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)

When the crisis came, this situation turned into a diabolic feedback loop. ❋ Unknown (2011)