Sentence examples for of diabolic from inspiring English sources

If these waters had any spiritual or healing qualities and powers, it became evidence of diabolic presence.

And then he opens his mouth and, I'm afraid, the spell of diabolic menace is shattered in an instant.

The connection between the language of demonization and the execution of diabolic acts was all too familiar in history.

This appears as the special temptational sphere of the devil; in sexual activity, the role of the instrument of diabolic enticement devolves upon woman.

"These were callously, well-orchestrated mass murders perpetrated by a network of diabolic, malevolent criminals masquerading as religious people," she said.

The new hunger for mass casualties, far beyond the needs even of diabolic publicity, is tied to a larger apocalyptic vision, a renewal of the twelfth-century religious warfare that the ISIS message underlined with such glee.

When he and a lover tried to resurrect someone from the dead, the one act impossible within the laws of the Cabala, he lost both the powers of holiness and of the diabolic.

Many causes have been suggested for the hunts, including economic distress, changing attitudes to women, the rise of a "godly state", the inquisitorial Scottish judicial system, the widespread use of judicial torture, the role of the local kirk, decentralised justice and the prevalence of the idea of the diabolic pact.

Inevitably, it is the song Rehab itself which is Winehouse's personal and musical moment of destiny, the moment of almost diabolic inspiration and autobiography and automythology which triggered her supernova of fame.

At any rate, Rehab was the result of almost diabolic inspiration and self-mythology, which triggered the supernova of fame.

The story of the Peruvian fat thieves has a similar whiff of the diabolic: an outsider penetrates a remote mountain redoubt to collect a forbidden harvest that preserves youth at life's expense.