Mephistophelian
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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
Sharon Stone leans into her Mephistophelian role as record exec.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
Lorne Malvo isn’t an antihero; he’s a Mephistophelian villain, and Lester Nygaard his contemptible, ear-flapped Faust.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2014
This is Lorne Malvo, played with a Mephistophelian smirk and evil hair by Billy Bob Thornton.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2014
It was the same design which made the otherwise generous, tender Wendell Phillips adopt a personal mode of warfare in his struggle against slavery with a bitterness almost Mephistophelian.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
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