Sentence examples for demonic act from inspiring English sources

"This was a violent and demonic act against the church," said Vincent Cioci, a 40-year-old Water Mill resident who attended Mass at St. Michael's last Sunday.

As his first demonic act, Iblīs, referred to in this context as shayṭān, entered the Garden of Eden and tempted Eve to eat of the tree of immortality, causing both to forfeit paradise.

Shaitan, also spelled Sheitan, Arabic Shayṭān, in Islāmic myth, an unbelieving class of jinn ("spirits"); it is also the name of Iblīs, the devil, when he is performing demonic acts.

That we often only pay attention to the demonic acts in the world and fall short in seeing and affirming the many wondrous acts of goodness and of standing up for what is right that take place all the time.

Odds 7/2 Jake and Dinos Chapman They may not be twins, but there is something of the demonic double act about the brothers as they glory in giving the public's notion of art a good kicking.

You could even act demonic.

Despite his assurances, the use of demonic powers and ceremonial acts addressed to them was bound to seem risky, even impious.

And that conviction of unworthiness was the deepest lesson I had been taught as a child, that I was the surrogate demon who was to act and sort of expurgate the demonic in my dad.

In the demonic storm music that opens Act I, it was touching to hear him audibly grunting as he gave the emphatic downbeat of each swirling phrase in the orchestra.

Early in the first act he introduces a demonic visitor from head office who tells them in the most brutal terms their jobs are in serious jeopardy.

Meanwhile, choruses of restless miners, already ominous in Act I, become fully demonic, their singsong rhythm reduced to hammering intervals: "There is no land upon the earth / Contains the same amount of worth".