Mephistopheles
Example Sentences
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Film and novel are umbilically linked, however, by the basic gambit—a “motiveless” crime committed by strangers and therefore difficult to solve—as well as by a riff on the Faust legend, with Bruno as Mephistopheles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the old stories of the magicians and their bargains, of Faust and his Mephistopheles, suggest that we would be wise to fear apparent obedience as well.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Parker was Presley’s manager for most of his career, and Hanks portrays him as part small-time grifter, part full-blown Mephistopheles.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Rubbing his hands together, gleefully, like some kind of cut-rate Mephistopheles.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
She tries to pray and find comfort in her despair, but an awful voice mocks her endeavors, and that voice is Mephistopheles, who comes to her now in his true character.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
