Although he lived with his mother and two sisters throughout his adult life, when he died there were 14 outstanding paternity suits against him, which might explain his Mephistophelean smile".Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900" will be at Tate Liverpool from May 30th until August 31st.
Grant isn't Tyler Brûlé, laconically assessing the thread count in his hotel's Egyptian cotton sheets as his audience wonders whether they would be any use for throttling him; he's bug-eyed and irresistible, a madcap, Mephistophelean guide whose charm is so overwhelming that you might almost miss the note of melancholy that underpins it.
The Mephistophelean figure in the strip is the Dungeon Master, a raven-haired woman named Ms. Frost, who says to Debbie, "Your cleric has been raised to the 8th level.
In a solo for himself, to "Let Me Down Easy," sung by Lavette, he taunted those seated at his feet, taking off his tuxedo jacket in a kind of striptease, his Vandyke beard and mustache and his flicking tongue giving him a Mephistophelean air.
Most important, nobody, but nobody, cracks the semblance of a smile unless it is a Mephistophelean grin.
Mr. Jones, with his gravelly baritone and Mephistophelean sprig of beard, makes a strikingly sinister-looking Richard.
A heavy-metal purist, Mr. Dio was known as much for his vocal prowess as for his Mephistophelean stage persona.
Before he leaves, his Mephistophelean mentor counsels, "Business is not a sport for gentlemen; it's not for good people".
His Hamlet was the most charismatic and compelling of my experience, and his Andrew Undershaft, the Mephistophelean arms manufacturer of Shaw's "Major Barbara," the most seductive.
Mr. Duris's Paul has the springy agility of the young Mick Jagger and the same crinkly mischievous grin that conveys a Mephistophelean charm; the resemblance is so striking that in many shots he suggests a hairy-chested fraternal twin of that Rolling Stone.
As for Newton, he was something of a dandy, "no stranger to drag," gangly, with a "Mephistophelean beard".
