Sentence examples for an evil demon from inspiring English sources

And I started laughing, which is always a good sign that I'm possessed by an evil demon.

Then came the first meditation of Descartes (1641), speculating that everything his senses told him might just be the work of an "evil demon".

The series, of five books so far, is about a widowed lawyer who purchases a magic kingdom and then has to fight off an evil demon.

According to Hindu stories, this shoal of limestone is the bridge Lord Ram crossed in order to rescue his wife Sita from the clutches of an evil demon.

But now imagine that an evil demon declares that out of every 100 people who see the new wing, he will choose one, at random, and inflict 15 years of blindness on that person.

And also could events like the second world war be explained by a programmatic failure, or is whoever is in control of the simulation an evil demon in the Cartesian sense?

Consider next how the same individual fares in a world that is subject to the machinations of a Cartesian evil demon, a being bent on deceiving the world's inhabitants as to its true character.

Superficially, the simulation argument bears some resemblance to the one made by René Descartes, in the seventeenth century, that there could be an undetectable "evil demon" shaping our perceptions.

The trick to being a good Evil Demon (one might think) is to be effective at planting misleading evidence.

Make no mistake, this is a group of organic movement proponents wielding non-GMO torches and artisan pitchforks on the hunt for a symbolic evil demon.

René Descartes ([1640] 1996) famously sought to doubt any and all of his beliefs which could possibly be doubted by supposing that there might be an all-powerful Evil Demon who sought only to deceive him.