| 单词 | diabolically |
| 例句 | Bren throws back her head and laughs, kind of diabolically. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was something diabolically sweet in her tones—something of the tingling of glass when struck—which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z With his slicked black hair and cunning gaze, he is at times practically a dead ringer for Dirk Bogarde’s diabolically crafty valet in “The Servant,” though not as bright. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s hard to find anyone else involved who agrees with that version: “He’s a diabolically bright business guy,” says Ken Friedman, who runs two restaurants with chef April Bloomfield in the Ace. Andrew Zobler, Line Hotel's Boutique Warrior 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z They would perform the diabolically difficult Kingdom of the Shades scene in the third act, when approximately 40 dancers descend four ramps in a slow procession meant to evoke an opium dream. Bolshoi Ballet Carries On Amid Acid Attack Scandal 2013-01-28T23:03:44Z But their story, diabolically “amplified and embroidered” by the classmate who narrates it, twists to end in tragedy. Dear Match Book: Hidden Gems 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Vivian Fung’s “Birdsong” set the tone, moving from glassy impressionism to a diabolically twittering reel and slashing accents, a hike through a minatory forest. Midori and Ieva Jokubaviciute demand attention with performance at Library of Congress 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z We’re navigating a landscape of diabolically irresistible food specifically designed to swamp our willpower, both by being engineered for deliciousness and by being available everywhere we turn. Perspective | Food deserts don’t cause obesity. But that doesn’t mean they don’t matter. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z So much is left unsaid that the diabolically clever outcome offers no simple answers beyond the implication that in contemporary Iran, men in uniform are viewed as the enemy. | 'The Hunter': ?The Hunter? by Rafi Pitts - Review 2012-01-03T23:01:40Z Mr. Vonnegut dreams up diabolically elegant business crimes, then sends smart-talking characters to follow the money. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z It doesn’t just hit the road, it also wobbles and weaves and executes a diabolically jaunty victory lap, leaving a long bloody smear in its increasingly brutal wake. | 'Rubber': The Tread Life on This Tire Is Something Else 2011-03-31T22:24:37Z More schizophrenic than its diabolically infested characters, "The Rite" is partly a slow-burning horror flick and partly a Vatican recruitment video. "The Rite": Anthony Hopkins brings the evil! 2011-01-27T18:30:00Z The strenuous route winds diabolically over, between and among rock ledges, requiring scrambling in spots. On a Maine Island, Steep Bluffs and Solitude 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z While these are all diabolically effective methods of manipulating political discourse, the latter, which involves corporate funding of academic research, is the most insidious of all. Bad science gets busted 2012-09-24T16:32:00Z Fortunately for readers, Keefe’s skills as a raconteur translate into diabolically seductive prose. Sunday Reading: The World of Patrick Radden Keefe 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z I did not anticipate such a nightmarish, hair-raising, diabolically smart treatise on pain — particularly as experienced by women. Review | Mona Awad’s struggles with chronic pain and the health-care system fuel her new novel 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Bosnia and Herzegovina was the setting of Mr. Tanovic’s first and best movie, “No Man’s Land,” a diabolically absurdist wartime fable that won an Oscar in 2001 for best foreign language film. Movie Review: Danis Tanovic?s ?Cirkus Columbia,? Set in Bosnia 2012-02-16T23:59:02Z They are also diabolically clever, evolving quickly in response to military attempts to defeat them. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z But Yokomizo has his fun, and the diabolically twisted plotting is top-notch. The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z And yet these errors, expected, even necessary, are diabolically easy to internalize. Broken collarbone? Just roll with it 2013-06-02T17:00:00Z "Pizza is the most delightful thing ever invented and it's - for me - diabolically dangerous." Hanks: Diabetes restricts my choices 2013-10-09T15:10:30Z In 1778, the Duchess of Devonshire wrote to a friend of a diabolically uncomfortable French number. Our Underwear, Ourselves 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z I find Mr. Tower’s advice here to be diabolically perverse, a platinum thumb up the nose of the rule formerly known as golden. Review: ‘Table Manners,’ Chef Jeremiah Tower’s Guide for All Dining Challenges 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Topics: , , , , , , , Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word “life.” So what if abortion ends life? 2013-01-23T15:43:00Z The screen heroines of 2020 wound up meeting their moment in unexpected and diabolically cathartic ways. Perspective | In 2020, women’s pandemic-era rage exploded on screen 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a diabolically clever entrapment that Columbo pulls off, and it’s very satisfying. Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson Trace the TV Origins of ‘Poker Face’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Covid was diabolically crafted to afflict a world in which we were already raw, sore and constantly rubbing up against other, generating friction as we circulated both globally and locally. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The established stable of political characters includes McKinnon’s diabolically hilarious Hillary Clinton, and Jay Pharoah’s precise, if unremarkable, take on Obama. Saturday Night Live: Trump baiting and Miley hosting – can the show pull it off? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Lots of what passes for salad in restaurants is just the same as the rest of the calorie-dense diabolically palatable food that’s making us fat, but with a few lettuce leaves tossed in. Why salad is so overrated 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The event dovetails diabolically with the kidnapping of Martha Ochoa, the daughter of one of the Ochoa brothers, by members of the guerrilla group M-19. 'Narcos' Episode 2 Recap: Death to Kidnappers 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z In between, he and Hawkins diabolically mess with your eagerness to sympathize, getting you to endorse their characters’ petty chicaneries and laugh at their string of improvements on Lincoln’s assassination. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Gates’s logic is diabolically sound: the Americans will have no trouble sweeping in and taking the money since Saddam Hussein’s army is currently preoccupied with quashing the resistance. Three Kings at 20: the war movie where anything was possible 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Her boyfriend hates having the top of his head patted because it makes him feel like a dog; Kipnis diabolically starts doing exactly this whenever they watch TV. ‘Love in the Time of Contagion’ Observes Mutations in Domestic Life 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z To an almost indecently entertaining degree, the movie becomes less grim and more playful as it continues, a family tragedy reverse-engineering itself into a diabolically crafty puzzle. Review: Sandra Hüller acquits herself brilliantly in the superb ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Now consider China, a country that many Americans appear to think is almost diabolically efficient. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Crawford, whose diabolically placed fly ball with the bases loaded in the eighth will be shown to howls of delight from Mariners fans for perpetuity. 2022 Mariners make their own postseason history 27 years after Edgar’s double 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The show opened with a half-hour set by Ariel Motto, who records under a diabolically generic tag, Club Music. Review | At Black Cat show, Boy Harsher serves synth-based, punky catharsis 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z As diabolically brilliant as Disney has been at conquering the global entertainment market, the company can’t be expected to anticipate the needs and norms of every family. Opinion | Disney made a female guest cover up. What about its own princesses? 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The “terrorist conspiracy” in the subtitle is al-Qaeda’s diabolically clever plan to attack America, which depended for its success on young Arabs from Germany learning to fly passenger jets. Review | The year, and the election, that set America’s path for the 21st century 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z And there’s a catalogue of diabolically ingenious creatures creeping along the ceilings, jumping from behind trees and even reaching through fourth-dimension portals to keep the pages simmering with terror. Review | ‘Moon Witch, Spider King’ revisits the wondrous realm of Marlon James 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z For many of us, refined carbs are also diabolically easy to overeat. Perspective | 5 truths about dieting everyone can — or should — agree on 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Their team has been diabolically bad in the first half of 45 minutes of his reign and trail Liverpool by two goals at the break. Leicester v Manchester United, Manchester City v Burnley – live! 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Two of those shots reached the green and then diabolically boomeranged to the sand. Royal St. George’s has seen British Open pain and agony. Now comes the joy of rebirth. 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The Mexican writer-director Michel Franco wields the story like a scalpel in “New Order,” his diabolically imaginative dystopian fever dream of modern-day inequality and corruption. Review | The movie ‘New Order’ is a diabolically imaginative dystopian fever dream 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Here was a diabolically smart and scary thriller that turned sound itself into a weapon: a tour de force of shush-pense. Review: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is (shhh!) a good enough sequel 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The electorate decisively rejected the extremism that Trump kept on display this weekend as he continued to issue one diabolically false claim after another to discredit an election that he lost. Opinion | Don’t define Biden’s victory down 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z He’s obviously a diabolically difficult QB to bring down because of his elite quickness, but it’s not just this game in which this was an issue. With gut-wrenching loss to Cardinals, the Seahawks have reached their first moment of truth in 2020 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z QAnon adherents claim to be searching out a truth they insist has been diabolically hidden from the public. Opinion | The Evangelicals Who Are Taking On QAnon 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps we are preprogrammed automatons, or the particles under observation diabolically influence our decisions. Why physicists still don’t know what reality is 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Viruses are known to be almost diabolically opportunistic — lethal but not too lethal, for example, to keep from killing their hosts so fast as to compromise their ability to be spread. Column: Coronavirus fears stem from globalism, doubts about government competence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z "Our catchment is diabolically impacted by this," says Helen Haines, the independent MP for Indi, which takes in Corryong, as well as the headwaters of the Murray, Australia's largest river system. 'It destroys you, mate, to shoot your own cattle' 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The confessions he recounted were lurid and dramatic, strewn with provocative details that prosecutors used not just to show the guilt of the defendants but also to establish that they were diabolically evil. How This Con Man’s Wild Testimony Sent Dozens to Jail, and 4 to Death Row 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Of course, a 17th-century Quaker would be likely to dismiss the singular “they” as diabolically bad grammar. Opinion | What Quakers Can Teach Us About the Politics of Pronouns 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z From the hysterical levels of overpraise, concern-trolling and general hype that have greeted “Joker,” casual observers might assume that it’s either genius, right-wing propaganda or some diabolically potent combination thereof. Review | Joaquin Phoenix is a vivid, operatic Joker, but the movie is way too full of itself 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “It’s diabolically complicated,” said Mike Moore, an attorney representing four states and a handful of cities and counties in MDL 2804. Who's to blame for the nation's opioid crisis? Massive trial may answer that question 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Officials were caught off guard there in the final round of the 1992 Open when 20 players shot in the 80s in diabolically difficult conditions. Not just players under pressure to get it right at U.S. Open 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Which is why the contraptions I’ve noticed at construction sites along the Purple Line are so diabolically clever. Perspective | What’s up with those red-and-blue flashing lights at construction sites? 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The diabolically placed infield single was just one of many Ichiro trademarks during a career in which, Mariners teammate Mike Cameron once marveled, it seemed like he was playing chess at the plate. Ichiro, always a master of timing, gets it right again with his retirement 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z If that is so, they created a diabolically intricate deception. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s a harrowing cautionary tale showing that democracy can be sabotaged even more diabolically by a trusted insider, respected by most of the press, than by a clownish outsider, disdained by most of the press. Opinion | Who’s the Real American Psycho? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z In other words, they are lying, diabolically so. Media lias regarding Gaza violence are diabolical 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z How inspiring to find that in 2018 satanists are more progressive than the Great Beast even now tweeting diabolically from the Oval Office. Hell freezes over: how the Church of Satan got cool 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Behold the diabolically clever life cycle of the rainbow mussel, which lives in U.S. rivers and streams. How Mussels Fool Fish Into Carrying Their Parasitic Babies 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Obesity is a diabolically complex disease with many contributing factors, “but someday I personally think we really will be there,” he added. Engineered protein helps obese mice lose weight, eat better 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z He said that what Mrs. Clinton failed to do was blame herself for running a “diabolically elitist and blinkered campaign” with no coherent message except that Mr. Trump is terrible. Piers Morgan rips Hillary Clinton’s book as ‘whiny, self-pitying, deluded load of literary claptrap’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z So we need some stuff that’s diabolically easy and backed by neuroscience research — but let’s keep the emphasis on diabolical. 4 Ways to Become Stress-Free Just About Anywhere 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Williams finally shipped a forehand from the baseline into the net, and Muguruza placed a 98-mph serve diabolically enough that Williams returned it long. Garbine Muguruza defeats Venus Williams for Wimbledon title in a show of towering will 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z He considers the lyrics to be “a list of things that sort of happened—partly cloaked, not diabolically so.” Jimmy Webb at Carnegie Hall 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z If the category were called most original screenplay, “The Lobster” would be a worthy winner for its diabolically clever vision of a romantic-fascist dystopia. From 'Moonlight' to 'Manchester,' a critic marks his hypothetical Oscar ballot 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Elevator pitch: Long before Candy Crush diabolically distracted us, humans turned to ancient Egyptian board games, 19th-century Japanese card games and, of course, Tetris. 3 Books Your Inner Geek Will Love 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z It's diabolically thin: There's just enough atmosphere to cause friction but not enough to help much with braking. Elon Musk unveils Mars colonization plan, but don’t pack your bags just yet 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z A decade later, “Unreal,” a diabolically entertaining drama based on Shapiro’s experiences in reality TV, became a surprise hit on Lifetime. The Savagely Clever Feminist Behind “UnREAL” 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Whatever mind space he’s in, it is stirring, connecting, succeeding—diabolically, brilliantly. UFC Star Conor McGregor Says He’s Lost His Mind 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Satan comes across as, well, diabolically clever, not one you could slither past in some sort of reptile costume. All hail the Satanic Temple: Up close with the brilliant “Satanists” who drive the faith-deranged nuts 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Depp keeps Bulger’s sizable temper and immense evil professionally in check until it explodes diabolically in scenes of sudden, searing violence — much of it played out before witnesses, and sometimes in broad daylight. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Black Mass’ a tour de force for Johnny Depp 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Still, the 25-year-old U.S. marine remained haunted by the memory of an explosive device diabolically concealed beneath a tempting array of cookies and candies. Can We Spot Soldiers at Risk for PTSD? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Instead of rejecting them, the slick and diabolically tilted greens absorbed approach shots, and the biggest challenge the players faced was hitting putts too hard. U.S. Women’s Open: Amy Yang maintains three-stroke lead 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Karl Rove, a diabolically competent political infighter but of no discernible intellectual weight, may have been prescient when he told us to forget our pedestrian notions of reality—real live reality. We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House has turned truth in the Ukraine on its head 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A blowout is a diabolically ingenious product: it can be undone and destroyed simply by adding drops of water. With Drybar, a Curly-Haired Girl Wages a Global War on Frizz 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z At one point recently, he poked from the coals his specialty, potatoes roasted in aluminum foil together with bacon and pickles, a diabolically tasty mix. A Pastor’s Turn Fighting for Ukraine 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z For one thing, they spoke Chechen, a diabolically difficult language for outsiders to learn. Signs That Attackers Came From Within Mitigate Alarm in Chechnya 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The consensus was White House had switched gears, and was now diabolically using Benghazi to distract from something else. GOP’s Benghazi humiliation: Capture of suspect up-ends deranged agenda 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Then he snorts a couple of hits off her body, diabolically grinning the whole time. Movie Review: Scorsese's <em>The Wolf of Wall Street</em> 2013-12-19T21:11:52Z Whether or Not to Approve the War for the Greater Middle East Still, whether high-minded constitutional considerations or diabolically clever political machinations motivated the president may matter less than what happens next. Send in the clowns! 2013-09-09T11:40:00Z Haren’s disastrous start illustrates once more how diabolically hard it is to analyze baseball, even for the players themselves. Washington Nationals’ Dan Haren hopes a return to basics will bring return to form 2013-05-08T18:32:56Z “I’m secretly rooting for this option if only because it would be so diabolically awesome,” Lehman wrote. New iPhone rumors: LTE behind design changes? 2012-08-13T16:55:00Z Belfast Blonde: Faintly sweet, a little lemony and diabolically easy to drink, from Ireland’s oldest independent brewery. Drink: A Drinker’s Guide to Dublin 2012-06-07T11:00:00Z Many of them were diabolically possessed and became mad. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z For anything singularly pretty, or diabolically ugly, this was your customer. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The simple invention is almost diabolically cunning; it is the wheel of Ixion in the Tartarus of pain to which mankind has banished animals. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z His talent I think quite diabolically great; and this in spite—here I am at it again!—of the misguided, the unfortunate "Stalky." The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The New York Times about Ms. Chua’s most recent book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” saying that it is, “a diabolically well-packaged, highly readable screed ostensibly about the art of obsessive parenting.” India Ink: Pocket Guide to the Jaipur Literature Festival 2012-01-20T05:57:30Z Such men are capable of horrible and diabolically deliberate crimes; but they are capable of great and genuine self-sacrifices also. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z If "A Piece of String" and "The Necklace" are not diabolically ingenious inventions, then the word invention means nothing as applied to fiction. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Living in a more enlightened age, he says that former Christians acted wrongly, and in fact diabolically. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z While it is true that it has much that is mere jugglery and charlatanism, it is quite possible that it may have something that is diabolically real. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z And in the manner of getting this he became almost diabolically clever. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z So that they appear to have carried out what might have seemed mere idle threats in a diabolically savage way. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z The pimpler bears thorns of the first magnitude, often double, recurved and at such diabolically unexpected places, that like barbed wire, it is impossible to grasp anywhere without drawing blood. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z And so their diabolically crafty minds had conceived the idea of letting Helen Hardwick’s agonized cries pierce his armor of pride and obduracy, thus accomplishing what could never have been accomplished by other means. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z What diabolically infernal creatures girls were to handle! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z It would have been diabolically certain of success. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z There was something in the man that was sinister, supple, diabolically adroit, and he felt instinctively that his presence in his father's room boded no good for any one. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Huckins, who had never looked more hypocritically insinuating or more diabolically alert, exclaimed, "I can wait, I can wait." Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z But I never saw anything more diabolically real in my life.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The cross-breed squinted diabolically as he strove to puzzle out how he was to earn this reward. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z The door opened to Mr. Jack Hamlin, diabolically mischievous, self-confident and audacious! Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Never was a policy of industrial frightfulness more diabolically conceived or more rigorously executed than that of the Cambria Steel Company. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z Sir Charles Venner's right eye gleamed behind the sights, and his expression was diabolically wicked. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z It was quite diabolically clever, and beyond all question the filthiest thing I have ever read. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z There was something diabolically waggish in Mr. Dingwell's face, if the noble lord could only have seen it distinctly, as he entered the room. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z These scraps he carefully placed in his pocket along with the piece of candle, and then hurried out, with his lips drawn away from his teeth, and his face wearing a diabolically savage aspect. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z The latter, however, merely grinned diabolically at him, and said nothing; so he was obliged to answer the grandmother himself. The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z "That's my belief," agreed Stone; "the whole affair is a carefully planned and deep-laid scheme, and concocted in a clever and diabolically ingenious brain." The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z Though I know nothing about him personally, I can tell you that he is certain to be diabolically cunning and clever. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z And the malicious ingenuity of woman, when she lays herself out to be offensive, is remarkably inventive and diabolically persistent. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z He became an afterthought because of the brilliant, and in some ways diabolically clever, decision that Barack Obama made in naming his successor: General David Petraeus, the dominant U.S. military figure of our time. The Afghanistan Reboot: Can Obama and Petraeus Work Together? 2010-06-24T08:00:00Z If you're stuck in a diabolically long "oh-fer," it doesn't really matter whether it's a lucky, deflected goal or a fortunate bloop single that turns into a hit thanks to a magnanimous official scorer. Podolski Plays Back the Faithful 2010-03-09T01:05:00Z I love to see a man enjoy himself so diabolically.” Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Of course Mr Craigie's extraordinary character gave the scheme a chance it never deserved, but was Tiel really so diabolically clever that he actually counted on that? The Spy in Black The knowledge made her proudly sad and diabolically happy. Majesty A Novel At the end of three days H. R. diabolically announced that only sixty-eight had been selected. H. R. But if I haven't found the person or persons who have murdered Sir Andrew in that cold-blooded and diabolically clever manner, then my name's not—Arthur Deland. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Remember that your good name is in the hands of people who are diabolically capable of blackening it before your husband to defend themselves. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The huge level is studded with brazen statues of eminent gentlemen riding fretful horses on diabolically severe curbs. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Everybody’s bits belonged to everybody else, as much as to himself, and the rest was a mass of green stuff, cut in points, diabolically alike. An Unknown Lover And then, as if to render the mockery more diabolically complete, a sort of consciousness came over me that had I spoken sooner she would have refused now to give me back my troth. A Veldt Vendetta "If I were not absorbed myself, no doubt I should be beastly, diabolically lonesome." Fairfax and His Pride Gremion, standing up with his arms crossed, said, laughing diabolically: 'Did the Nazarene, the famous Messiah, who dabbles in prophesying, predict to you what would happen, Genevieve? The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth Astarte was indeed beautiful at that moment, diabolically, bewitchingly beautiful; the exquisitely moulded, sphinxlike countenance was glowing with life. The Scarlet Banner These Robots, diabolically developed, were upon the verge of revolt. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 So diabolically triumphant was Penton's tone that it filled Nelson with a horror. A Canadian Bankclerk It was to be considered whether the party confessing were not diabolically deluded, whether the confession were not forced, or whether it were not the result of melancholy. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The insolence of the feudal women breaks out diabolically in the triumphant two-horned bonnet and other brazen-faced fashions. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages A mechanism so cleverly fashioned by the genius of man that it stood diabolically upon the threshhold of humanity! Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Star.—"An ingeniously horrible story with a diabolically clever plot." Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Two recent books,1 one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 There are gloomy letters from George Villiers at Madrid; he attributes the Spanish difficulties more to the conduct of Louis Philippe than anything else, who, he says, is playing false diabolically. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III Although not skilled in polite duplicity, Bertha was able to read beneath the serene insolence of these lines something so diabolically relentless that she turned cold with fear and repulsion. Money Magic A Novel The Kite, so the report ran, was diabolically ingenious with a long peeling knife, and could improvise with it for hours. Hawk Carse A lad of about eleven years with the sardonic face of a satyr and diabolically bright eyes peered into the room. Our Next-Door Neighbors The harsh mouth was irrevocably set, till nose and chin looked as though they soon must meet, while the hideous dark rings showed up the cruel glare of her eyes, which shone diabolically. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Ah, she had always been diabolically clever, unscrupulously ambitious! Ghetto Comedies I've got you at last," he chuckled, diabolically, "I have revenge for your treatment of my daughter. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces But the most extraordinary of all the culinary receipts that have been under my eye, is the following diabolically cruel directions of Mizald, “how to roast and eat a goose alive.” The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual Yes, the device was simple, diabolically simple, and adequate. Heart of the Blue Ridge He placed a large hand on my shoulder and his eyes gleamed diabolically in his set face. Hurricane Island I felt dimly amazed at finding myself still alive: there were two tigers and they were diabolically squalling out a love-duet. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) He gave a sign to the musicians, and they, incapable of disobeying authority in anything, produced a music more brisk and diabolically gay than before; but they might as well be playing to the dead! The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The expression of the face was diabolically malignant, and as it gazed straight at me my horror was as intense as my wonder. Werwolves That worked, too; but every time we managed to preserve a glory of old Siwash, the Faculty seemed to get a little more crabby and unreasonable and diabolically persisted in its determination to regulate athletics. At Good Old Siwash She had interpreted his suggestions as to sober, serviceable clothes, in a diabolically well-fitting suit of brown, the colour of her hair. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Yes, yes," he said, smiling at the remembrance, "the fact is she is diabolically witty. Renée Mauperin The will itself is the most diabolically exasperating document that was ever produced by the perverted ingenuity of a wrongheaded man. The Eye of Osiris Its aquiline nose and pale eyes are fashioned like those of a human being, but animated with an expression too diabolically malignant to proceed from anything but the superphysical. Werwolves Now, he had no intention of being submitted to the diabolically ingenious torments practised by the Korean executioners; the important thing, therefore, was to contrive, if possible, to escape while there was yet time. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Robert, however, must have had diabolically good eyes to choose a mistress at such a distance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Imagine the universe sage and philosophical; agree that it would be a most diabolically gloomy spot. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. He was a diabolically clever little chap, though he wasn’t very witty. Adam Johnstone's Son The police were diabolically clever—now and then. The Lion's Mouse "Well, even if he did so diabolically commit you, you still don't want—do you?—to back out?" The Outcry Mr. Vyner bent over his work again, and scowled diabolically at an innocent letter which said that his instructions should have immediate attention. Salthaven During the next twenty years he may have undergone many changes of intellectual view, as most of us do, as Miss Martineau notably did, and Miss Martineau and her laughing friends were diabolically uncharitable. Immortal Memories It was a place as diabolically wicked as it was wealthy, and we may safely regard Mahmood as the instrument of divine vengeance upon it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity To where it belongs with your charity! to heaven with it!" again snapped out the other, diabolically; "here on earth, true charity dotes, and false charity plots. The Confidence-Man He had written into that note—by a code of diabolically ingenious wording—a secret message to his own spies in Washington. Tarrano the Conqueror The initiatory rite of Mohammedanism is most diabolically malicious. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Yet surely he cannot be so diabolically wicked.” The Phantom Ship It has a teasing quality, it is diabolically fascinating. The Bibliotaph and Other People "Has it struck you, Mr. Simeon," he asked, "that Froude is so diabolically effective just because in every fibre of him he is at one with the thing he attacks?" Brother Copas Above, below, and around the far-flung cone the furious globes dashed, attacking every Vorkulian craft viciously with every resource at their command; with every weapon known to their diabolically destructive race. Spacehounds of IPC "And I consider it the most diabolically dangerous proposal to be made in this Hall in the last six centuries!" old Admiral Gaklar shouted. Ministry of Disturbance The complete plan was too diabolically ingenious and complete to have formed in the murderer's mind at the outset. The Shrieking Pit He was bubbling over with fun and the milk of human kindness, except for that poor devil of a quartermaster, at whom he scowled diabolically whenever they met. Marion's Faith. It diabolically applauded the St. Bartholomew Massacre, and instigated the numerous religious wars that tore Europe asunder, and was the cause of the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and incalculable suffering. The Necessity of Atheism As I have said, the hexans of Jupiter were, and are, diabolically intelligent. Spacehounds of IPC That so-called Saint, Liguori is not less diabolically impure than Dens, in his questions to the women. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional "It was a diabolically clever plot, planned with fiendish ingenuity, to ruin your brother—all your family, perhaps." The Castle Of The Shadows After the mischiefs there endeavoured, and since in part conquered, the terrible plague of evil angels hath made its progress into some other places, where other persons have in like manner been diabolically handled. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales What a diabolically clever device it had been! A Husband by Proxy Was Garman merely playing with him again, arousing false hopes which would be diabolically crushed? The Plunderer The thing seemed a devil, alive and diabolically bent on eluding him. The She Boss A Western Story He couldn't have made a worse beginning had he pondered the matter long and diabolically. Man to Man There outside the window stood Matters, grinning diabolically. Sunny Slopes When the trunks of the palmettos were lighted all were to yell as diabolically as possible, and fire at every Indian that showed himself. Captured by the Navajos However sweet girls may be as individuals, or in small groups, they are in the mass diabolically cruel, and their cruelty is directed especially against men. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Next morning on our going into the yard the unfortunate prisoner who had been punished so diabolically was not to be seen. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Oh, they were much worse than sharks, for the shark was only following an instinct when it killed, and the Huns had worked out diabolically their murderous, monstrous plan. The Tin Soldier She was meagre, diabolically graceful, dark, with huge saucer-like eyes that greedily drank in her surroundings. Visionaries And, in fact, he did not look like an animal at all, but like some diabolically uncouth dwarf of the woods. The Way of the Wild Diana, we were so puny, so insignificant, so stupid, and the Canyon was so colossal and so diabolically quick and clever! The Enchanted Canyon He did not try to attack me again, but stood just out of my reach, grinning diabolically at me. Jacqueline of Golden River When the two were presently closeted together where their privacy was assured, a conspiracy, diabolically insidious, was about to have its birth. The Furnace of Gold "Ah, but you'll be disappointed this time, I warrant," he said laughingly, as the smoke circled round his diabolically handsome face. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes The instinct of small boys is often as diabolically keen as that of a grown woman. Marietta A Maid of Venice We have thought we could make diabolically, foolishly, insanely inflexible men-machines which violate at every point the natural qualities and instincts of the materials of which they are made. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy You talk like a tax-gatherer," rejoined Allen, squinting diabolically at him; "what is my occupation in life? Israel Potter I understood not merely from the demeanor of the long row of young women, but from everything else I had seen in the exact and diabolically ingenious ordering of the whole establishment. Your United States Impressions of a first visit Oh yes, he's diabolically clever, but he is cruel too. The Keeper of the Door Zorzi was diabolically clever, and would not have been so foolish as to hide the treasure again in the same room or in the same way. Marietta A Maid of Venice No one doubts your ability—you are diabolically able! Lewis Rand It splashes out from under a horizontal cloud, so diabolically incandescent that you see a dozen false suns blotting the heavens with purple in every direction. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Suddenly the whole savage crew broke away together and ran into the neighboring woods, whence they soon emerged, yelling diabolically, each armed with a club. Montcalm and Wolfe Huddled behind his steering wheel like a warrior behind his shield, every body-muscle taut with strain, every facial muscle diabolically calm, the Senior Surgeon met and parried successively each fresh onslaught of yard, rod, mile. The White Linen Nurse "Is there any reason why it must be caught?" dad wanted to know, in his worst tone, which is almost diabolically calm. The Range Dwellers Yes, it was clever, it was diabolically clever; but you know what Bobby Burns says about the best laid schemes of mice and men. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces We are told that he would spend hours pacing like a wild animal up and down his room, gnashing his teeth, clenching his fists, grinning diabolically, and uttering strange incoherent cries. Love Romances of the Aristocracy "But," he stammered presently, "you are speaking of generalities—horrible theories—things diabolically conceivable to be done—" "What?" cried Marsden, checked for a moment in his horrible triumph. Widdershins He described with diabolically graphic touches the garret in Howland Street. The Divine Fire But he is one of those diabolically clever peasants that one meets in the Campagna, and he must have his reasons. Whosoever Shall Offend The conclusion arrived at in that council of human tigers could have found expression nowhere save in the brains of Asiatics, illogical, and diabolically cruel. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama He twisted, he writhed, he tried to lift his elbows and get his wrists in reach of the opening, but the coffin was too diabolically cramped for movement until the hole was very much larger. The Fortieth Door His wicked "Credo" more diabolically malicious than ever it was at the Lyceum; an uncanny but distinctly striking effect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 But she was diabolically cunning and sharp, and knew how to seem a highly educated, advanced person in company. The Darling and Other Stories Nature had fondly and diabolically equipped her to conquer the world, to be one of its successes; and so she was to the last of her ninety-six years. The Conqueror And Langholm grinned with set teeth as he turned back to this passage: he would be diabolically safe. The Shadow of the Rope There burned the light, diabolically like a signal fire on the peak, where no fire should be. Casey Ryan When you laugh like that, I always know some diabolically cynical idea is floating in your head, and it is not good for you. The Reason Why They are diabolically cruel to animals too, and they seem to me as a rule hardly to know the difference between truth and falsehood. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 The fact is," he continued, "that love is a very rare thing, nowadays, and is so very generally an abominable sham that I have often amused myself by diabolically devising plans for its destruction. A Roman Singer When I am most angry, a diabolically aggravating spirit seems to possess me. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon Dear me, how diabolically those wretches lied to the Marquess. The Man from Brodney's The construction of this little clever monster is diabolically French. Famous Reviews He could hardly have thought out a more diabolically clever plot if he had tried. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Monsieur in uniform gets behind the table and surveys us with disdain, his forehead becoming diabolically intellectual under the moderators. The Uncommercial Traveller As to its sounds—I have to observe that at the will of a master it can be sublimely sonorous, terribly sharp, diabolically guttural and sibilant, and sweet and harmonious to a remarkable degree. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery No shop window show should be so diabolically set forth as to arouse such sensations in the breast of the beholder. Buttered Side Down: Stories There was something diabolically sweet in her tones, something of the tinkling of glass when struck, which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another. Dracula Why the deuce should he diabolically revenge himself only once in his life; and that for the one particular blow that could not have hurt him? The Innocence of Father Brown The ability to manipulate the system for rip-off seemed diabolically clever. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier These passages are as unreal as they are repulsive, but they are diabolically clever. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The glad promise had a diabolically mocking sound, the subtle perceptive faculty of my insensible being felt the falseness of the sweet announcement. The Bride of Dreams Then he chuckled diabolically, as in fancy he saw Porter being trampled by the horse. Thoroughbreds He recalls Germanicus from the Rhine out of mingled jealousy and fear; he makes him viceroy of the East in order to carry out a diabolically elaborate scheme for bringing about his destruction. Latin Literature But no; he had never looked more diabolically cunning and watchful. The Story of Kennett Now, having completed my investigations of the ruins, I returned to camp, where I was met by the Abban, looking as sulky as a bear with a sore head, and frowning diabolically. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile As they advanced, they came under a diabolically heavy rifle fire; bullets were raining upon them from all sides. Selected Polish Tales The other is that I believe him to be so diabolically vindictive that he would run almost any peril in order to obtain revenge upon me or his father. Colonel Thorndyke's Secret For days together he would not speak: or he would break out in diabolically malicious moods and try deliberately to hurt. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The woman on the couch looked to Henrietta like a doll animated by some diabolically clever mechanism, she was so pink and blue and fair. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing Calcutta in the hands of Satan and growing diabolically, within the darkness of an unholy mist! Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore The door opened, and the swarthy Reginald, diabolically handsome, with his black snaky curls, entered the room. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Vanity can be savagely suspicious and diabolically cruel. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time A big boy of twelve, with a shock head of blue-black hair, two wild, glittering black eyes, and a diabolically handsome face, came with her. A Terrible Secret Nothing perhaps on our earth has ever been done more diabolically than under the forms of ecclesiastical law; nothing can be more atrocious than the hypocrisies and acts of inquisitors. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women The police in all countries know how many cases occur which can be explained only on that theory, and how diabolically ingenious madmen are in covering their tracks. The Primadonna The will itself is the most diabolically exasperating document that was ever produced by the perverted ingenuity of a wrong-headed man. The Vanishing Man Fate ordained that this question was answered by a man who knew that Cartwright was Carteret; and so, at last, the unhappy father realised how diabolically he had been hoaxed. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch He grinned diabolically as he led me to the little house and opened the door. The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander There was something impish, almost diabolically clever, in that little man's characteristics which induced wariness. The Postmaster's Daughter If a Dormitory-prefect was kept awake at night by some diabolically ingenious contrivance for combining the minimum of risk with the maximum of noise, then it was Skinner who had engineered the thing. A Prefect's Uncle How abundant her red hair-it is red, not blonde or golden- yellow—how diabolically and yet tenderly it plays around her neck! Venus in Furs If so, it was an almost diabolically cruel reason. December Love Dear naïve old song, fitting climax of a feudal day, sweet with the freshness of those simple times, when art for art's sake was a shibboleth uninvented, and every other man was not diabolically clever! Without Prejudice No; it is diabolically clever, but quite understandable. Vicky Van In the Den that evening there was one world within another, though only these two, and probably the intuitive and diabolically observant Minks, perceived it. A Prisoner in Fairyland To me she presented a woman thoroughly wanton and diabolically equipped with the wicked witcheries which explained, if they did not palliate, the conduct of Don José. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Droom grinned so diabolically as again he resumed the rubbing of his hands that the other turned away with an oath and closed the door to the inside office. Jane Cable Both boys were grinning diabolically and the dog took on energy through inspiration. The Day of the Dog A madman with ideals is bad enough, but Barbarossa's son is a diabolically sane person without any. Masters of the Guild It sounds well enough as you say it, but I expect the powers are sneering diabolically at us both. Winding Paths It is the diabolically clever criticism upon Montgomery. Through the Magic Door The man must have had diabolically acute hearing. The Invisible Man She was dying and it would be diabolically cruel to undeceive her. Sant' Ilario Clutching Hand was now holding Elaine near the door where she could not help seeing, laughing diabolically while he directed LeCroix and the rest to work the infra-red ray apparatus through the trap. The Exploits of Elaine This thing has all been carefully, diabolically laid out. The Treasure-Train For you know these philosophers are diabolically clever. Socrates It is not possible to conceive of anything more diabolically bad than what she did to me. The Witch of Prague "I think this is the most diabolically treacherous plot that ever mind of man conceived and human heartlessness executed." Love-at-Arms You were insatiably curious as to what a boy might be capable of, and diabolically clever at getting through his guard and surprising his inmost secrets. Man and Superman The agile step that goes with a happy heart was heard on the stairs, and the Reverend, smiling diabolically, sought sudden refuge behind the heavy folds of the velvet window-curtains. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories Her services were diabolically unanswerable; her net and back court game would have merited the earnest attention of an expert, and Garrison hardly knew where a racket began or ended. Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course Remember if you do not come here before Nottingham, if you do not come afterwards I shall think myself diabolically ill-used. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 "Hold him by the feet, for he bites AWFUL," said Peggy, as the bird regarded Sam with the diabolically intense frown of his species. Openings in the Old Trail But, diabolically directed, this vast energy has been used by this man to melt the wires in the little dynamo that runs Norton's gyroscope. The Silent Bullet And the gale, ever snorting harder, now snorted diabolically. The Mutiny of the Elsinore My fancies have not deceived me—I love you ecstatically, diabolically, as a madman might! Poor Folk Even the note, with its darkly suggestive offer of "good material" for me, looked diabolically significant. Drift from Two Shores It is by no means the diabolically wicked Correspondence it was thought to be; the reverse, indeed, on both sides;—but it has unfortunately become a very dull one, to the actual generation of mankind. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 His weird face had grinned diabolically at the ball, and he had looked at its magnificence with an evil eye. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau After crossing some large, lofty, dark rooms, diabolically cold and damp, I reached the state bedroom where the Countess lay. La Grande Breteche Mankind has often enough worshiped the insane and mentally aberrant and has as often been diabolically cruel to them. The Foundations of Personality Ernest walked proudly up and down his room; he struck a three-quarter, full-face, and profile attitude before the glass; he tried to criticise himself; but a voice, diabolically persuasive, whispered to him, "Modeste is right." Modeste Mignon For anything singularly pretty or diabolically ugly, this was your customer. The Cloister and the Hearth Malone's cunning, vicious face, now that the softening effects of the gray hair and mustache were gone, seemed accentuated diabolically by the grin broadening into a laugh, as he guffawed. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Here the chief closed one eye and executed a diabolically sly smile. Taras Bulba and Other Tales As he spoke he jingled a leather purse which hung from his girdle and smiled diabolically. Taras Bulba and Other Tales But the secretary emitted from his lips a thick "Hm," and exhibited on his countenance that indifferent and diabolically equivocal expression which Satan alone assumes when he sees his victim hastening to his feet. Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
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