demoniacally

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Therefore he fought tirelessly, savagely, demoniacally, the inroads of the white man into his territory.

From Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer by Cady, John H. (John Henry)

In his hand was a baton which he brandished demoniacally at an orchestra of his own.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar