Word: demoniacal
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...very character of syncopation altered. Ragtime molted; Jazz, that Klaxon-throated Phoenix, rose from the ashes of untold night-club cigarets; the Blues crept on sly haunches out of the red-light alleys of Memphis, goose-fleshed the U.S. with the Macabre, demoniac plainsong of generations of junketing cats...
...Stung to demoniac fury by the Nebraska spikes that trampled him a week before, Tryon, Colgate's famed halfback, roared up and down a striped field smiting those whom he could reach, piling up 26 of the 49 points his team scored against little Hobart. On another field, unhelped by any demon, Swarthmore inflicted a similar indignity on Stevens Tech, also...
...score. To this libretto, the amazing concoction of one Friedrich Kind, Weber wrote a score that combines the simple tunefulness of the folksong and the Bavarian yodel with the brilliancy of the concert hall. It contains also demoniac bombast and eerie "agits" which would be dear to the heart of any cinema organist. Its first Viennese success was tremendous. Weber himself wrote in his diary: "Greater enthusiasm there cannot be, and I tremble to think of the future, for it is scarcely possible to rise higher than this. To God alone the praise...
...this petty but altogether barbarous vice. If M. Barbot had remained with his machine, his overalls or whatever aviators wear, would probably be decorating some New Jersey villa; certainly Boston women assailed the fair Rodolpho as furiously as ever the Bacchanalian revellers rent poor Orpheus. The Enthusiasm of the demoniac souvenir-fiend is boundless, and if half of the present monuments are to be kept for posterity to admire, vigorous measures will have to be adopted...
...realized. Critics have asserted that Shakespeare put no deep moral meaning into his writings; such criticism is shallow and idle. The poet has created a world of imagination - a real sensuous world filled with life, where everybody is at the highest pitch of vitality. Around this world is a demoniac, a superhuman covering. It is absurd to assert that these supernatural characters are introduced for stage effects only. Shakespeare believed that the world was not summed up by what could be comprehended by our five senses, or by what was simply of this earth...