Sentence examples for kind of demon from inspiring English sources

According to Wikipedia, the oni is a kind of demon or demonic figure in Japanese folklore.

Is there some kind of demon conspiracy?

"Nita," he asks her, "am I some kind of demon on the loose?... Count it up.

It ends with the sound of Smith exhaling what sounds like TB or some kind of demon.

Fearful that it would summon some kind of demon from deep within the recesses of my flat-screen, I declined.

Having the magically returned Eugene be some kind of demon or delusion or whatever he is is much, much better.

Wroe tries to explain Shelley's interest in the Devil, and in all kinds of demons and ghosts, by invoking another of her book's many avatars, "Monster-Shelley" — the side of him that enjoyed reading tales of horror, and liked to scare himself and other people with hideous visions.

The Red Wings, in contrast, were participating in their series against San Jose, but while the Sharks are exorcising all kinds of demons and even getting their best players to score, writes Mark Purdy of The San Jose Mercury News, Detroit is getting the short end of the officiating, writes Drew Sharp of The Detroit Free Press.

LAS VEGAS — Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury spent part of Sunday's Stanley Cup media day narrating the postseason path of his upcoming opponent because perhaps no other player better knows the kinds of demons the Washington Capitals had failed to slay over the years.

"Is this going to be all too close and terrifying to do that?" he asked "Or is there some way those kinds of demons can be exorcised?" Angus Kress Gillespie, a professor of American Studies at Rutgers University and a folklorist who wrote a history of the twin towers, said, "My suspicion is, in the wake of this tragedy, we'll feel less playful about death".

The precise role of the demons becomes an interesting issue in view of the fact that Plutarch speaks of two kinds of demons, good and bad, and indeed he claims that demons exhibit different degrees of virtue and vice, as is the case with men too (De def. or.