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demonlike
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Resembling a demon in form or action
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Their excellent coffee (a rare commodity here) and demonlike efficiency with their hot sandwiches are Washington's most convincing arguments for private enterprise on government property.
(Full disclosure: The poster, with Ms. Dunaway's peepers glowing demonlike from her gorgeously planed face, adorned one of my walls for longer than I'd care to admit).
Audiences, led by a demonlike guide, witness scenes played out in unrelenting Grand Guignol fashion, depicting homosexuality, drunken driving and teenage suicide.
(Dargis) 'THE CAVE' (PG-13, 97 minutes) In Bruce Hunt's formulaic "Cave," a group of ace cave-divers are flown in to investigate an intricate maze system discovered beneath the ruins of an ancient Romanian abbey, but instead become the prey of mutated demonlike creatures that can fly and see in the dark.
The female protagonist in this version is still the demonlike woman.
But Abacar Mulima and Noe Manjate, two dancers encased in white sheaths, symbolized condoms and, eventually, most of the dancers had condoms on their headdresses as they fought off demonlike figures representing AIDS.
After a romantic dinner with him, ending with a strange-tasting chocolate mousse brought over by Minnie (she pronounces it "chocolate mouse"), Rosemary passes out and has weird, frightening dreams in which she is stripped and seemingly assaulted by a demonlike creature.
And it was a borrowed image of a woman — a sinuous drawing of a demonlike one and a man in flagrante delicto — that led to Berman's arrest and conviction in 1957 on obscenity charges during his first commercial show at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, establishing the twin themes of his career: exploring the fringes of American society and shunning the attention of the mainstream.
(Dargis) 'THE CAVE' (PG-13, 97 minutes) In Bruce Hunt's formulaic "The Cave," a group of ace cave-divers are flown in to investigate an intricate maze system discovered beneath the ruins of an ancient Romanian abbey, but instead become the prey of mutated demonlike creatures that can fly and see in the dark.
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