diablerie

Example Sentences

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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.

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

She was the incarnation of girlish diablerie indulging an irresistible desire to torment.

From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker