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
In life, however, Höfgen plays Faust, the weak, tempted one, while the part of Mephistopheles is taken by the Nazi state and its functionaries.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
Rubbing his hands together, gleefully, like some kind of cut-rate Mephistopheles.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
“My favourite stage direction ever,” Dilley tells me between takes, “is the one telling me Mephistopheles is troubled by the Kantian dialectic.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2018
At a fair spot on the earth, his flight comes to an end: his pinions drop, and Mephistopheles is at his side.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
