Sentence examples for In diabolical from inspiring English sources

The predominant facial expression is a suspicious, paranoid acknowledgment of universal complicity in diabolical evil.

"Refugees are hungry and distressed, and they live in diabolical conditions.

Right now, migrants in Calais continue to live in diabolical conditions, suffering awful health problems as a result.

Variety puzzles are already enough of a challenge, but adding in diabolical riddles like the ones concocted by Jeffrey give a new dimension of difficulty.

But he's in diabolical nick - 42 runs at an average of 8.40 in the series - and you suspect this might be beyond even him.

In science fiction stories, antimatter pops up everywhere as a power source for spaceships or the active ingredient in diabolical bombs.

Yet the emergence of the professional revolutionary, imagined in romantically diabolical terms in the Revolutionary Catechism of Mikhail Bakunin and Sergey Nechayev in 1869 and sketched more realistically in What Is to Be Done? by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, in 1902, was not entirely due to the circumstances of the underground political struggle.

Indeed, in his 1933 lectures After Strange Gods, he specifically calls the irrationalist neo-primitivist strain in modernism diabolical, especially in the case of DH Lawrence, whom he admires but sees as a source of spiritual danger to anyone less versed in the true meaning of orthodoxy than Eliot himself.

In his final essay, Nishida admits that his notion of an absolute totally embracing the relative, even in its diabolical forms, is more in tune with a Mahayana Buddhist tradition than with the Christian sources that inspired him.

For openers, Mubarak is not exactly Ben Ali and, despot for despot, he will offer tougher resistance; this is evident in the diabolical skill with which, in the very first hours of the movement, he withdrew the police, opened the prison doors, and let the gangsters out to sweep through the capitol and terrorize the middle class.

Polanski's achievement is in immersing us so completely in Rosemary's point of view that we share her doubts, confusion and suspicions as she becomes increasingly cut off from former friends and begins to believe her husband is in cahoots with the Castavets in a diabolical plan to harm her baby.