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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

At length he begins to feel our steady pull, and inch by inch, struggling demoniacally, he nears the bank.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James

The other stood with face demoniacally impassioned, yet fading into the pasty gray of fear—the fear that was the more unmanageable because it was a new emotion which had never risen to confront him before.

From The Roof Tree by Conrey, Lee F.