demoniacally

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Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed.

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He plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit.

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No kin to his sister Swede, 41-year-old Ingmar Bergman is one of the most peculiarly gifted and demoniacally creative moviemakers of modern times�"a gothic Dante," one European critic called him.

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But demoniacally it raged through her, a hurricane of hell, a storm of passion, which blew out of the darkness of the landscape, lashing the tossed waves of the stream towards the inky sky.

From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Couperus, Louis

All I recollect further is that I sank suddenly into a big arm-chair, while my host’s face grinned demoniacally in complete satisfaction.

From The Stretton Street Affair by Le Queux, William