Sentence examples for something diabolic from inspiring English sources

There is something diabolic in the sooty image; it takes a moment to notice the tiny, fleshlike, pointed polyurethane heels at the end of her tensed feet, which give Mège an otherworldly, succubus-like aspect.

And here was this great big government plot to suppress it and make it seem as if it were something diabolic, satanic, full of hatred and fiendishness and madness… It was the very first time I ever had solid evidence in my own body that there was a difference between reality as I saw it myself and reality as it was described officially by the state, the government, the police and the media.

As an example, some of the participants attributed their tobacco addiction to something diabolic – to a spiritual problem.

What they share with him is the most primitive and archaic and Catholic pessimism of his art - the sense not just of irrationality but something more tangible and diabolic.

It's not that the music is particularly distinguished, but there's something utterly original in the way the playfully diabolic lyrics bask in the sunshiny Broadway sound (lushly drawn out by the orchestra under Stephen Oremus' music direction).

It is a diabolic talent, destructive and self-destructive, and here allied to something else: a nose for other people's weakness.

Self-portraiture is particularly diabolic.

Her diabolic smile warns of evil intent.

He looks almost diabolic hunched over Ilona.

It can be diabolic or a blessing.

Wild places are by definition unsafe, elusive, and potentially diabolic.