diablerie
Example Sentences
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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak.
From Time Magazine Archive
The work was Saint Saën's "Danse Macabre," and in her hands the fierce madness of that remarkable composition was brought out with more than its usual diablerie.
From A Cabinet Secret by Boothby, Guy Newell
Some eighteen months had elapsed in this fashion when Aurore began to tire of diablerie.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
