Sentence examples for a devil of a from inspiring English sources

Karen Durbin describes Mia Farrow's character in "Rosemary's Baby" as a woman "who suspects she's carrying Satan's spawn" ["A Devil of a Marriage, Scarier Than Ever" by Karen Durbin, Jan . 19]

They expect to have a devil of a time.

Say: "I'm having a devil of a time finding my heirloom jewelry.

Poor kid is going to have a devil of a time in the playground.

Fallopia baldschuanica, aka Russian vine, aka mile-a-minute, is a devil of a climber.

But the Scotsman had a devil of a job, needing four grimly contested sets over four hours.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

Joseph Conrad, no radical, described it as "a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly".

Valmont -- that cold-hearted, handsome devil of a French aristocrat -- wears a flowing white dress to act the part of his most recent sexual conquest.

And then came Williams, a Tazmanian Devil of a performer whom the stage could not contain.

The dramatic routine scored them major points with the judges, with Bruno calling it a "dare devil of a tango".