Sentence examples for devilish play from inspiring English sources

Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. Cleveland St. Vikings - Wikipedia does not even give a straight answer on what a Demon Deacon is but sources agree that it probably dates back to Wake Forest's devilish play.

(Sentimentally) Ah, the fair sex — wives, sweethearts and daughters — what devilish tricks they play us, Jimmy boy.

This is a devilish game to play with an alter ego; Bolaño could have titled this novel "Self-Portrait in Fifty-three Convex Mirrors".

We often played devilish practical jokes on each other.

History plays devilish tricks even on the best-intentioned: Obama needs to find language of equal directness now to allay German fury about perceived American intrusion into their essential freedoms.

It could be argued -- at least by those still feeling generous by the evening's end -- that this effect is not out of sync with Mr. Rushdie's novel, which plays devilish tricks with notions of time and reality.

B: No! He has done mostly dramas, many films where he was really frightening, playing devilish, nasty, violent characters!

Play the devilish charmer, heavy on mystery, mascara and evening dress.

That devilish smooth operator was playing with girls' hearts, moving "in space with minimum waste and maximum joy".

We therefore assume that a man like Malick is playing a devilish game of anti-publicity, in order to stoke our curiosity; no less perilous, however, is our assumption that merely because a movie, or a novel, was pondered, and kept secret, for a lengthy period it must tower above its more precipitate peers.

Elder Bruner brother Ronald's filthy shuffle plays a devilish patriarch, with Terrace's legato lines weaving a reversal of the typical family dynamic; the low end is peppered with classic Thundercat arpeggiation while Robert Glasper's bedrock Rhodes keeps calm.