Sentence examples for demonic genius from inspiring English sources

Did totalitarian ideas flourish in Europe chiefly because of the demonic genius of Hitler and Lenin?

In Russia the demonic genius of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel had points of contact with the Art Nouveau style.

But the cult of the isolated, divine or demonic genius – of which Beethoven was the first outstanding musical example – was developed to a whole new level by Berlioz.

Poets of the Realist, Expressionist, Nationalist, and Existentialist movements in France and Germany saw their prototype in Kleist, a poet whose demonic genius had foreseen modern problems of life and literature.

It takes a rare, demonic genius to brush off the slaughter of thousands on the grounds that they were suffering from severe ennui brought about by boring modern architecture.

The demonic genius of our current President lies in his intuitive understanding of what artists like Hytner and van Hove so artfully demonstrate: that audiences can be manipulated into doing almost anything when the experience they are offered is sufficiently, shockingly entertaining; and that the blurring between entertainment and politics can be exploited for self-serving ends.

Can he still match wits with the new whiz kid at HQ, let alone the demonic geniuses that threaten British intel?

Kubrick's juxtaposition of battle scenes and this sickening petty tyranny behind the lines is masterly and there is a demonic flash of pure genius in making one condemned man, just before his execution, announce that he has not had "one single sexual thought" since the court martial.

The result, oddly, is to leave al-Qaida's evil genius looking less demonic than he seemed in the aftermath of 9/11.

Whether he's reflecting a demonic Southern overseer or the genius of Brian Wilson, it's a process for Dano to find his way there.

He portrayed Walpole as a strange genius, and gave Sterne an almost demonic mask of a face.