Mephistophelian
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If gangsta rap is L.A.’s most famous musical export of the last three decades, it has come with a Mephistophelian curse.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023
Lorne Malvo isn’t an antihero; he’s a Mephistophelian villain, and Lester Nygaard his contemptible, ear-flapped Faust.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2014
Writing around the same time as Agee, the critic Parker Tyler noted “the mild Mephistophelian peaks of her eyebrows” and compared her with screen goddesses like Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2014
This is Lorne Malvo, played with a Mephistophelian smirk and evil hair by Billy Bob Thornton.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2014
Her despairing representations to this effect were, of course, unanswered by Byron, who contented himself with a Mephistophelian sneer in showing her letter to the Hoppners.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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