Word: demoniacally
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...Demoniac Possession. The force that drove Einstein to genius he called "a demoniac possession . . . like that of a lover." Yet for all his scientific wisdom, he was a worldly innocent. He had a lamblike helplessness in the face of everyday problems; he was easily presumed upon. He once agreed to buy an elevator for his two-story home because "the man who came to interest me in it-I liked him so much, I could not say no." He loved jokes and laughed easily. He loved humanity, but he was comfortable with few of its members. "My passionate interest...
Novelist Goncharov was incapable of firing off the demoniac, soul-searching pyrotechnics of a Tolstoy or a Dostoevsky, but with quiet irony and firm psychological realism he stirred his TNT in a teacup...
Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen has her best moments in the Habanera aria where she establishes the brand of sultriness which is to drive men mad. Miss Dandridge seems a little relenting for this demoniac task but her equipage is more than adequate. Harry Bellafonte, as Joe--nee Don Jose--relies too much on eye-popping and nerve-straining, emotional displays which the Cinema-Scopic screen shoves into the realm of the ludicrous...
...style of this story maintains with brilliant subtlety and consistency the tone of paradox and indirection indicated by its title. That its analysis sometimes attains a frightening level of acuteness and power is hardly to be wondered at, for to the mind which views passion as the sole, incontrovertible, demoniac power, ("I reveled in the factuality of the rat") all lesser experience attains a strangely new but clear focus. Morality has long become debased to the procedure of a controlling principle, and soon even this must crumble, for its irrelevance to the absolute is perceived. If Kafka (from whom Beuhling...
...weld Malayans-Malays, Chinese, Indians and British alike-into a sturdy, self-governing democracy within the Commonwealth. Objective No. 2 was impossible in a scant two years, yet Templer pledged himself, "mind and body," to fight for this political, economic and social "second front." He brought to his job demoniac energy, a streak of ruthlessness, a flair for jungle fighting (he once was bayonet fighting champion of the British army) and a sensibility that dumfounded those leftist British critics who had objected to his appointment out of fear that he might prove too tough...