Mephistophelian

Example Sentences

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If gangsta rap is L.A.’s most famous musical export of the last three decades, it has come with a Mephistophelian curse.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Some of Adès’s madcap writing in the concerto may doff a hat to Busoni’s Mephistophelian masterpiece.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Lorne Malvo isn’t an antihero; he’s a Mephistophelian villain, and Lester Nygaard his contemptible, ear-flapped Faust.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2014

Writing around the same time as Agee, the critic Parker Tyler noted “the mild Mephistophelian peaks of her eyebrows” and compared her with screen goddesses like Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2014

Gerald, while they took their first long, rapt look, stood at one side, with a smile like a faun’s when a faun is Mephistophelian.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall