Stir in a clash of two great dynasties in the hands of the gods, opposing armies locked in battle and the moral struggle of ideal heroes representing divine forces arrayed against demonic ones.
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.
Frye, however, discerns in the innumerable romantic narratives of the Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of action taking the form of a cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm.
When I'm wasted it's like a switch flips and I become a different person, a demonic one.
I don't know much about the America of 1897, but I do know that we had a Democratic president then rather than a demonic one.
The New York Observer's George Gurley wrote (Aug. 25, 2002) that Coulter's been described as "'crazy' or 'insane.' She is a lunatic 'right-wing nut,' and also a dangerous and demonic one.
For Knox had within her "a double soul: the good, angelic, compassionate one... and the Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic, diabolic one," he said.
It is so demonic that one reads and reads it...
By the time they've turned into older teenagers they're regarded as predatory: we credit them with an almost demonic energy, one that can only be Asboed out of them.
The most difficult of criminals to trace, since his connections with his victims are almost always imagined, such a killer is a romantic figure in reverse: sexually obsessed, isolated by his compulsions, the very portrait of demonic possession: one whose entire outward life has been constructed as a means of satisfying the forbidden.
"Ted Cruz, look in the mirror and let the evil spirit leave, leave your power-hungry demonic soul," one of the hecklers called out from a doorway while holding up a mirror and a cross.
