Word: diabolicalness
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Salem Possessed advances a different view of the Salem witch trials. Instead of relying on alluringly lurid depositions about accused witches's diabolic practices or heroic self-defense and their accusers' sufferings or reprehensible motives, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum base most of their case on ordinary town records of...
In their appearances before the Senate committee, both Kissinger and Moorer tended to play down the whole episode. Although Kissinger testified that "I must say I was outraged" when he learned that his private papers were being stolen, he absolved the military from any diabolic schemes. Said he: "I think...
Murderously Funny. Orton aimed to outrage, but he also calculated to delight. His dialogue is wickedly original and his vision manages to combine the commonplace and the diabolic. It is as if by loosening a floorboard one could look down at flames. No author could demand a more empathetic director...
Osmond traced the beginnings of the hallucinogenic movement in this country to the Peyote religion of the American Indians. The Indians began worshiping what orthodox clergy termed "the diabolic root" in the 1930's when their civilization was in a demoralized condition.
Treigle's great acting vitality, lithe movements and granitic voice make him supremely good at dramatizing evil. In Carlisle Floyd's Susannah he sang Reverend Blitch, a man of God who fell through lust into destruction; his Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust is demon masquerading as man...