Sentence examples for daemon from inspiring English sources

One of the more common tricks hackers use is to inject a "secure-shell daemon" into a device by embedding it in an e-mail message or a website offering free downloads.

Kipling always believed that he was possessed by a djinn, or daemon, which lived in his fountain pen.

In the first scene in "The Golden Compass," Lyra quarrels with her daemon, Pantalaimon, about breaking the college rules, much as characters in more conventional stories might argue with their consciences.

Goya is almost always funny, though often only he, or his imperturbable daemon, laughs.

In addition to the real dog, each child had a pretend version, a daemon dog, to speak to and about.

Children, owing to the plasticity of their personalities, have daemons that can change shape — in the opening scene, Pantalaimon transforms from a moth into an ermine — but as a person comes of age his daemon settles on a single form that reflects his essence.

"When your daemon is in charge do not try to think consciously," reads a newspaper snippet that Arlen clipped to his journal.

When seen in that character, the daemon is much wiser, more Puck-like and fascinating, than in the usual interpretation.

In some ways, Pullman's high-voltage, visual style — in "The Golden Compass," each character is accompanied by an animal daemon, and the young Lyra learns to read pictorial symbols on a special device called an alethiometer — recreates the vivacity of tales told around the fireside to multi-generational audiences.

Every character in Lyra's world has a daemon — an animal-shaped alter ego that is all but inseparable from its human counterpart.

The talking Flounder, being both the evil daemon and the central consciousness of the piece, has a natural class interest in flounder's not being eaten, so there is a shortage of fish recipes in "The Flounder".