Sentence examples for beast himself from inspiring English sources

It's a lovely performance from Eddie Redmayne who is a pretty fantastic beast himself.

This isn't a Pet Sematary deal, though – here be restless ghosts and the beast himself who holds their daughter Carol Anne captive.

We have pretty good intel on the dad, who was an inventor – and as for the Beast himself, it is a full-time job being so ugly.

There's no cage strong enough for the sheer brute strength of Jackson's movie, a muscularity matched by its ingenuous love for the great beast himself.

"He's constantly walking that moral line of how do you feed the consumer, you know, the figurative beast who's asking for that… and then how do you stay a good person?" Gyllenhaal admits he sometimes becomes that figurative beast himself.

"The Beast" himself has said that he is more motivated by money than anything else, and he will have no shortage of potential suitors who are throwing big money his way in hopes of persuading him to sign with them.

A man dances as though breaking his chains, then suddenly he frees a ferocious beast inside himself and, seized with frenzied anguish, hurls himself at everyone he sees, tearing, biting, destroying," observed Maxim Gorky.

The epigram to "Fear and Loathing" quoted Dr Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man".

But Achour cheerfully misunderstood my gesture, and, like a beast, threw himself on the young woman, who this time tried to resist.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson, read by Ron McLarty (6½hrs unabridged, Whole Story Audio, £18.38) Dr Johnson's maxim that "he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man", quoted in the prologue of this 1971 American classic, neatly sums up not just the plot and the point of the book but also Thompson's savagely pessimistic outlook on life.

Then, finally, after minutes of scenting the air and watching for any startling movements, the beast thrusts himself forward with the full strength and speed of his battering-ram neck, chomping so hard that he pulls the stick out from between my teeth, leaving me with a mouthful of stripped bark and splinters.