demoniacally

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ha! ha! ha!" he yelled demoniacally, glaring upon me like a roused lion.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

It has become so grimy, so demoniacally fantastic in its outlines, that the beholder turns from it with a shudder.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett