The phrase "a kind of devil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that exhibits malicious or harmful traits, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "He was charming on the surface, but there was a kind of devil lurking beneath his smile."
Alternatives: "a sort of fiend" or "a type of demon".
Chigurh, with his implacable loyalty to death, is a kind of devil who has appropriated a God-like omniscience: "When I came into your life," he tells Carla Jean, "your life was over.
Patricia Glaser, the prominent Los Angeles lawyer who represents Mr. Snyder, suggested that the illustration of Mr. Snyder, which showed his likeness defaced by a schoolyard scribble of horns, a unibrow and a kind of devil beard, was "blatantly anti-Semitic".
Among other things, a kind of devil's advocate was hired to criticise the paper's workings, and to go public about its contradictions.
The military acted on those suggestions to present the liberals with a kind of devil's bargain: a declaration that would have protected individual and minority rights, but also granted the military permanent political powers and immunity from scrutiny as the guardian of "constitutional legitimacy".
Monomania can became tedious, even in a situation like this, but Saul's zeal takes him out of his usual routines and allows the film to take us on a kind of devil's walkabout and reveal other aspects of the camps.
Nonetheless, with a nearly flat leather sole and few or no buckles, it has a kind of devil-may-care elegance.
He made double and triple self-portraits – meeting his younger selves in the developing tray – and images of himself as a kind of devil-shaman, backlit, with both breasts and erection.
They were held together by friendship and a wish to be rid of the hobbling academicism of much American poetry in the 1940s.Koch's new book, "One Train" (Knopf; $25. Carcanet; £7.95), is, as usual, driven along feverishly by a kind of devil-may-care humour.
The book's publisher is marketing the novel as a roman à clef — a kind of "Devil Wears Prada" for pink-slipped editors.
Gloire evades Echenoz's bumbling detectives as she goes on a strangely innocent murder spree, sometimes accompanied by a homunculus named Béliard, a kind of guardian devil who will reappear in "Piano".
At the Boom Boom Club in the arches below Waterloo Station last week the compere Jonny Woo, a 6ft-plus drag queen dressed as a kind of Japanese devil, implored the audience to scream for the next act "as if you're watching re-runs of Britain's Got fucking Talent".
