Word: devilishness
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...blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise". And so the same through Dana, Melville and Whitman. "Always the same. The deliberate consciousness of Americans so fair and smooth-spoken, and the under consciousness so devilish...
...noxious drugs, than had been done for 50 years before the League of Nations came into being. And I assert that with almost equal speed conventions have been agreed upon through the instrumentality of the League which will really, I hope, put a spoke in the wheel of those devilish beings who carry on the white slave traffic...
...that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...
...Vodka," said Lenin and Trotzky, and they raised their boots to the third button on the tail of Prince Michael's coat in order to help him through the door. And the long night was short and the cold night was warm to Lenin and Trotzky, because of the devilish little saint made of rye and barley and potatoes, the saintly little devil that trickles down one's throat and into one's stomach 'and so on,--Vodka...
...apologies in the world, however, could not restrain us, while we were reading the "Tales", from entertaining an almost irresistible impulse to give the author a sound paddling and send him off to bed. If he were not so blatantly precocious, so proudly puerile and so egotistically devilish, he might be bearable for the space of an hour. But he is--and consequently...