Sentence examples for diabolic one from inspiring English sources

For Knox had within her "a double soul: the good, angelic, compassionate one... and the Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic, diabolic one," he said.

On the one hand, they have been seen as the diabolic invention that might one day destroy civilization.

In 1977 he told the New York Times of the "diabolic storm" that had broken on his country.

It is Santorini's very impossibility that makes it so compelling – it is sublime on the surface, with a diabolic core.

The one truly dramatic characterisation here was that of Peter Rose as Mephistophélès, suitably diabolic in tone and demeanour, while Sarah Connolly's Marguerite was warmly impassioned.

The driver, if there was one, is never seen, which gives the film its wonderfully diabolic edge.

It also meant that the traditional 'pairing' of lovers in opéra comique (Robert/Isabelle paralleled throughout by the 'lower-class' Raimbaut/Alice) was swept aside in favour of concentration on the more sensational story-line of Robert's diabolic ancestry.

"This diabolic state is gracing my existence like a catastrophic baby," sings Billie Joe Armstrong on Christian's Inferno, a line that's a bit of a catastrophic baby in its own right.

Floral discs were welded on to naked female figures on the metal staircase balustrades, Ms. Rathjen said, and a few diabolic masks were also taken out.

He has horns growing on his head that both hint at what might be his diabolic nature and act as a catalyst, provoking those around him to reveal their darkest desires.

"I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice in Wonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château," offers Mr Murakami on the palace's website.