Sentence examples for evil imp from inspiring English sources
When this evil imp invades the steely heart of Angelo, the supposed civic paragon put in charge of cleaning up the city of Vienna, the sudden growth of steamy corruption in a rigid soul makes for transfixing drama.
And so begins this inventive and ambitious but ultimately disappointing new novel by Anne Roiphe, which follows the travails of a singularly well-intentioned and honest civic leader who must grapple with racial strife, terrorist threats, budget shortfalls and the bad behavior of friends and family -- woes presided over by an array of evil imps and other fantastical figures.
The duality of good and evil, for example, can be seen in a pot showing malicious imps stealing eggs from the nest of the magical Bird of Paradise.
Speaking of morality plays, "Imps on a Bridge" in Long Beach focuses on eccentric tales of good and evil as recorded on Wedgwood earthenware in the 1910s and 1920s by English china-painter Daisy Makeig-Jones (1881--1945).
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.
Sapphirus Constantii imp.
