Sentence examples for demon of a from inspiring English sources

* philavery: The word, Foyle explains, was invented by his mother-in-law — "a demon of a Scrabble player" — expressly for this book.

There had been too many recurrent episodes, too many years of trying to fight off this debilitating demon of a thing.

And somewhere out there is Randall Flagg, a dark demon of a man in "sharp-toed cowboy boots" and a jean jacket, who's clearly ready to do some weird and wicked things.

The seagulls that swoop distractingly in an unnecessary video have more freedom than the occupants of the Beauregard Hotel, who are chased by personal demons or the demon of a postwar Labour government.

There is also an enjoyable account – which featured in his excellent book on depression, The Noonday Demon – of a visit to a shamanistic healer in Senegal, where he was put into bed with a dead ram, covered, while naked, with its blood, tied to a tree with its intestines and spat at by women, before dancing and eating the barbecued ram.

Bring it on!" "Mad Men," you are a wonderful, frustrating demon of a television program.

Soon I was fast to a demon of an albacore.

If so, it must be Lilîtu the demon of an evil wind", named ki-sikil-lil-la (literally "wind-maiden" or "phantom-maiden", not "beautiful maiden", as Kraeling asserts (see below)).

They fancied they were inventing a new way of war and casting out the demons of a moribund Pentagon.

I am once again facing the demons of a tough fixer, the loneliness of the road and less-than-perfect conditions.

Olympique Marseille vs. Saint-Étienne Marseille's coach Didier Deschamps is already struggling with the demons of a side expected to regain the title it lost last season.