Sentence examples for fiend of a from inspiring English sources

By the late 90s, he had put on three stone to play the gonzo journalist's coke-fuelled fiend of a friend in Hunter S Thompson's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

But a close fiend of Tynan, Unison official John Lambie was a member of the secretive selection panel and is believed to have backed him.

Robert Christgau characterizes Scott-Heron's original narratives as those of "a drug fiend of considerable perversity and tremendous intelligence who's gonna be dead soon", and comments that Jamie xx "hears in [Scott-Heron's] last testament an irreversible disintegration that he translates into heavily sampled minimalist electro marked indelibly by Scott-Heron's weariness, arrogance, and wit".

One, he adds, would be marrying "a fiend of virtue".

Underneath the fantasy trappings that have been a franchise staple since that first zombie slowly turned and stared right through you, there's always been a human element to the antagonism Umbrella wasn't founded by a foul fiend of the undead variety, after all.

"If you had seen half the shit I'd seen / You would probably fiend for a taste of the cloud," he says on "Say My Name," from his début album, "Teenage Emotions," which comes out this week.

The sulky, moody club fiend of recent memory probably still has a place in the world.

Later in the book, there is a chapter called The Fiend of Washington.

She is, she tells me, "the fiend of compartment D".

I almost felt that I should reply by unearthing some fiend of my own.

He surrenders to his bizarre destiny, to be The Fiend of Athens.