Sentence examples for why the devil from inspiring English sources

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I don't know why the Devil is here".

This is why: The devil – who apparently hates salt as much as God loves it – is behind me ready to snatch me and take me away to hell.

For all its documentary ardor, Wiseman's ideal often takes precedence over the real, and the one thing that never comes through is the reason why the devil gets the good lines.

I'd say that the virtue of auteur criticism is its approach to the question of why the devil they made it: a well-directed movie is one that reveals the terms of the director's personal involvement in it.

It's understandable why he feels trapped in his bedroom fantasy world, why the devil on his shoulder will always be saying: "What the hell makes you think you can make it in London?" Growing up middle class on the gold-paved streets of south-east London, I could see we weren't the same as each other.

[A second's pause of waiting silence then he suddenly claps his mask over his face again, with a gesture of despair, and his voice becomes bitter and sardonic.] Or rather, Old Graybeard, why the devil was I ever born at all? "There is no body of work in America that is as expressionistic," the Wooster Group's Elizabeth LeCompte told me, of O'Neill's plays.

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This is why the Devils are handling their comeback one game at a time — one day at a time, really.

Which is why the Devils needed production from Gomez and Mogilny.

Goalie Martin Brodeur was asked why the Devils gave up four goals to a last-place team.

Where he is vulnerable is in the few letter-slot inches above his shoulders, which is why the Devils' players have been shooting mostly high.

He said he hoped his decision was not a distraction to the team and could not explain why the Devils (2-5-1) poorly so poorly.

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