Sentence examples for role of devil from inspiring English sources

In the Qurʾān, however, they assume the role of devil, an obvious borrowing from Judaic tradition.

Wood played the role of devil's advocate.

Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer who embraced anticolonial causes and the role of devil's advocate on a world stage to defend war criminals, terrorists, dictators and other notorious villains of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Paris.

Yet several participants and observers of the meetings said in interviews that the president often tests different hypotheses, as though he is playing the role of devil's advocate, as he researches his options and draws closer to his decision.

To the dismay of Dan Brown fans, the role of "devil's advocate", who argued against a prospective sainthood, was abolished in 1983.The whole business will come under scrutiny this year, with two recentish popes John XXIII and John Paul II due to be proclaimed saints in April.

So revered is he, and so solid the reasons for that reverence, that one hesitates to attempt the role of devil's advocate, Luddite's friend, or grump, and yet, in one regard, "Ex Libris" disappoints, for it offers so little in the way of moral or political abrasion.

11.00am Visit a museum celebrating the role of the devil in Lithuanian folklore.

He's referring to the ill-fated West End production in 2000 of The Witches Of Eastwick, in which he played the Jack Nicholson role of "horny devil" Daryl Van Horne.

He quipped that "some say" the role of the devil that Mr. Nicholson played in "The Witches of Eastwick" "isn't that big a reach".

But that movie, in part as a result of Glenn Close's delicious villainy in the role of Cruella DeVil, was at least an adequate piece of children's entertainment and a harmless bit of nostalgia for the grown-ups.

If, for example, Alice Cooper were to record a follow-up to his 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare, and was seeking someone to play the role of the devil, you might expect him to summon one his shock-rock heirs – Rob Zombie, perhaps, or someone from Slipknot.