Sentence examples for demonic happiness from inspiring English sources
We prefer a demonic happiness to an unendurable freedom.
The story of the Grand Inquisitor places a stark choice in front of us: demonic happiness or unbearable freedom?
He stands and heads for the door, saying to Jesus, "Go, and come no more…Come not at all…never, never!" Scene 7 – Demonic happiness or unbearable freedom?
His work increasingly engaged the paradoxical East-West duality, as seen in The House of Oracles (1989 92), which featured divining apparatus of diverse traditions, and Theater of the World – Bridge (1993), which introduced the snake as a charged cultural symbol that had contradictory meanings for the East (intelligence, happiness, and auspiciousness) and the West (a demonic entity).
American jazz had lyric players like Lester Young, demonic ones like Coleman Hawkins, and incandescent ones like Louis Armstrong, but their swinging songs are radiant with achieved happiness and their sad songs ballads touched by the knowing, essentially stoical sound of the blues.
But at some point piling on additional suffering for more serious offenses seems utterly demonic, or at least so many retributivists would insist; and it does nothing to ameliorate a permanent loss of happiness for a minor offense or, as in the case of non-elect babies who die in infancy, for no real offense at all.
"It becomes something scary, demonic.
