The term "diabolical about" can be used in written English to describe someone who is extremely passionate or strict about a particular thing or activity.
It often carries a negative connotation and suggests an intense and possibly obsessive attitude towards something. Example: Adam was diabolical about his workout routine, never missing a day and pushing himself to the limits.
There is nothing diabolical about Mr Blair's luck.
I always suspected there was something diabolical about it.
What was truly diabolical about this was that Lieberman got a totally free pass on it — from Democrats because they didn't want to hurt Gore's chances by criticizing his running mate, from Republicans because they knew they would be the beneficiaries of Joe's selfishness.
While there's nothing diabolical about the bullfrog doing what's in its nature, this video illustrates the negative ecological consequences of humans carelessly redistributing species around the planet.
Marsh and Taylor will always be No1 when we talk about diabolical first days in the field for England, but in context this isn't far off.
And then, in 1929, Gershwin signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera to write a full-length work, based on the Russian playwright S. Ansky's 1914 drama "The Dybbuk," about diabolical possession in a village of poor Hasidic Jews.
In it the garden's plants were rather diabolical and set about eating all of the main characters - for being too nice and sweet and dreary for their own good.
But the way in which that transition has come about has been diabolical.
You wouldn't necessarily expect a 17th century-set horror story about about Puritans and diabolical possession to be so personal but The Witch, Eggers's first film, was a demon he needed to expel.
I started reading "Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus," a new all-about book, thinking that I would be most interested in the grim anecdotes and lurid details the book promises, and delivers.
Wallace has also decided to ask about "foreign hot spots", but it appears unlikely that it will segue into talking about the diabolical heat suffered in Kuwait and India this year.
