| 单词 | maleficent |
| 例句 | His light- brown eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mind you, his purpose is deadly serious: “to discover . . . the causes and beginnings of certain maleficent qualities in the American character,” as he puts it. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Allow me to recap: there’s this awful, terrible, gross, maleficent company that I and thousands of other foolish young people have worked for. I sold my body (and nearly my soul) to Abercrombie 2014-05-05T00:00:00Z In the early “Crow” from 1988, a half-dressed man touches the forehead of another man as if feeling for signs of fever as a black bird wings toward them like a maleficent angel. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z And because Bluebeard is a dark, maleficent story, I was scared to film it immediately. Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z We hope they’ll be enlivened by that maleficent spirit, the genius Loki. Thor: The Dark World: A God-Awful Villain Steals the Thunder 2013-11-06T23:49:43Z The Mexica believed the black sun was carried by the god of the underworld, and was the maleficent herald of death, though not death as finality. Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Any escape movie has a built-in spring with a doomsday clock ticking toward midnight as the underground heroes near their freedom while the forces of maleficent authority close in on them. Ben Affleck's Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives? 2012-10-11T12:00:13Z “Publicly, they say the right things, expressing approval and joining in the chorus of voices that applaud the takedown of maleficent characters who prey on vulnerable women in the workplace,” she wrote. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z He’s the life coach to an almost certainly maleficent Big Data C.E.O. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In “Plymouth Point,” you and your friends must unravel a sprawling, maleficent conspiracy by summoning all your combined wits and the internet’s resources to crack passwords, solve riddles and search social media. Theater to Stream: Star-Studded Digital Shorts and Escape Rooms 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z But Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” beats them all: a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Morris calls Kuhn a “megalomaniac,” “perverse dictator” and “maleficent deity,” who applied his skepticism to everyone but himself. Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps something good will come of Mr. Trump’s missions to the maleficent. Opinion | The real meaning of ‘America First’ 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z We don’t see Maleficent before she becomes, well, maleficent. Who Would Want to Be Powerless Sleeping Beauty When Maleficent Roars? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Hiddleston, known to Marvel fans as the brooding, maleficent Loki in the Thor and Avengers movies, stepped into the Adam role when Michael Fassbender stepped out. REVIEW: Only Lovers Left Alive: A Vampire Duo to Die For 2014-04-09T16:20:48Z But they who abandon belief in maleficent demons and in witches; as also, for this follows, in beneficent agents, as angels; land themselves in serious dilemma. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The waters cover the earth, and all maleficent beings are drowned. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Perhaps their curiosity was put to sleep by some uncanny though not maleficent influence. Fairies Afield 2012-03-18T02:00:20.790Z He saw Christianity as Tacitus described it—“a maleficent superstition.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z But their Blindness, with Respect to these two Sorts of maleficent Beings, is inconceivable. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z Near him serpents and venomous animals, because it is said that he drove all maleficent beasts out of the neighborhood of Riom. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z The Jingo, the military adventurer, the fomentor of trouble, are seen for what they are—not as patriots, but as representing exceedingly mischievous and maleficent forces. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Each had seemed to her the triumph of a just cause over a baleful combination of circumstance, the brilliant freeing of truth and innocence from entangling error and maleficent scheming. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Thus, a good thought is perpetuated as an active, beneficent power, an evil one as a maleficent demon. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z But the more refined Greeks believed for a long time that the moon was bewitched, and that the magicians made it descend from heaven, to put into the herbs a certain maleficent froth. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z If anything reminded him of the moon, however, then it could be expected to be maleficent in influence. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z This fate may be beneficent or maleficent, a guardian angel or a possessive fiend; or it may, in appearance at least, combine both functions. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Then she would take a serious, not to say tragic view of the matter, and attribute the misadventure to the maleficent influence of Gerster. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z "The motives may be beneficent, but the effects are maleficent," he says. Do we actually need a census? 2011-03-10T08:00:09Z The Assyrians looked upon the stars as divinities endued with beneficent or maleficent power. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z The ministry of death is not maleficent; says the Cabbala, "The Lord said unto the Angel of Death, Behold I have made thee cosmocrator." The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z An indefinable presentiment of evil was upon him; the air was charged with some awful and maleficent influence, of which the convulsion of nature seemed a fit harbinger. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Alas! it was from the terror of these spectres, and the noise beneath the mountains, that our people have fled, and left us at the mercy of the maleficent spirits!” Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Anyhow, be he maleficent or benign, it was clear that he was Somebody, and had filled the whole country-side with awe. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z These maleficent powers were propitiated by blood—especially by the blood of men in the combats of the arena. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Our progress has been all beneficent, while the influence of the Spaniard was everywhere absolutely maleficent. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Legislation that does not square with the self-evident truth and justice of this dictum is bad legislation, and must prove maleficent to the nation, state, or city that enacts it. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Those Titan forces of human suffering and degradation, so half-wittedly let loose throughout Europe, grew ever vaster, more terrible in maleficent power. The Book of Susan A Novel Similarly, the belief in the maleficent power of thirteen is commoner in London than in Patagonia, where, indeed, they do not know how to count up to thirteen. The Book of This and That It must be apt to study and praise elements that for the fulness of spiritual perfection are wanted, even though they belong to a power that in the practical sphere may be maleficent. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse Bower watched her face with a maleficent confidence that might have warned her had she seen it. The Silent Barrier At other times the wise woman gave a perfectly recognizable description of the guilty one and offered remedies that would nullify her maleficent influences. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 One seems to meet this vague principle, this reverend Thing, in Shelley's Demogorgon, the shapeless, awful negation which overthrows the maleficent Jupiter, and with his fall inaugurates the golden age. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle For though Famine had not yet begun to gnaw the vitals of those immured in Gueldersdorp, Disease had here and there sprung into active, threatening, infectious being, menacing the crowded community with invisible, maleficent forces. The Dop Doctor Bad magic may be overcome by good magic, and a deity, hostile and maleficent under certain circumstances, may be placated by offerings. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV That kind of belief in the maleficent as well as in the beneficent powers of the dead became very prevalent in later times. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era That maleficent giant can now hardly grin at the pilgrims whom he once harassed. A History of Elizabethan Literature But the more refined Greeks believed for a long time that the moon was bewitched, and that the magicians made it descend from heaven to put into the herbs a certain maleficent froth. Moon Lore "I consider it less a case of idiocy than one of possession, maleficent possession," replied Crashaw. The Wonder To your Sicilian the moon is ever a marvel, a mystical influence, now generous, now maleficent, always portentous. The Proud Prince Other records of maleficent deities in serpent shape were current, and monkeys and dragons inspired similar terror. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The popular tales of all Europe would, meanwhile, tend to support the church, in viewing them as maleficent genii. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Egotism grows more maleficent as it becomes more refined. The Simple Life Yet the Paternoster ruby had been potent to project its maleficent influence from the depths of its watery grave, and shape the destinies of the living. The Paternoster Ruby But they who abandon belief in maleficent demons and in witches as also, for this follows, in beneficent agents, such as angels, find themselves in a serious dilemma. The Necessity of Atheism Religious morality, to abolish and extirpate the maleficent act, appeals to its author, to man in his capacity of active agent. Sophisms of the Protectionists Each constellation is designated as the abode of the soul of one god benificent or maleficent. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Like many other savages, the Kai do not believe in the possibility of a natural death; they think that everybody dies through the maleficent arts of sorcerers or ghosts. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia For every virtue must be maleficent and steeped in artifice that cannot support the fixed and eager regard of justice. The Buried Temple For it has been directly witnessed in certain foreign countries that following on the establishment of parliaments those bodies actually distressed and confused the people and their well-meant reforms produced maleficent results. The Secret of Divine Civilization There are, then, two means by which the maleficent act can be prevented: by the voluntary absence of the active, or by the resistance of the passive agent. Sophisms of the Protectionists Have they gone up since under maleficent Saxon coercion? Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Another class of magicians were the maleficent sorcerers who caused people to fall ill and die by burning their personal rubbish. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Standing out in strong antithesis to the benevolent divinities is an order of maleficent spirits corresponding to the proverbial devils of other cults. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir She had dwindled to a skeleton, with a maleficent smile. Visionaries So the Deity may be beneficent or maleficent, he cannot be moral or immoral. Practical Essays Here I have been considering nitrogen in its maleficent aspect, its use in war. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries The Greeks and Romans, wise as they seem to be, had a Vejovis or Anti-Jupiter, otherwise called Pluto, and numerous other maleficent divinities. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil But when the incredibility began to subside, the despotism of the machine methods which could propose and carry out such unheard-of things loomed maleficent. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Whereas they are cheerful and benevolent figures, he is maleficent and terrible: they are gods of the heaven but he is a god of the earth. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 It is held close to the ears and the head in order to impart its supposed magnetism and keep out the maleficent effects of the wind. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan We endow them with minds like our own, but magnified by our dismay to be the minds of gods maleficent. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary V. 'A maleficent being is very capable of heaping magnificent gifts upon his enemies, when he knows that they will make thereof a use that will destroy them. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil But Yama is not regarded as a maleficent being, like Tangaro. Modern Mythology The Chela is not only called to face all the latent evil propensities of his nature, but, in addition, the momentum of maleficent forces accumulated by the community and nation to which he belongs. Five Years of Theosophy It is, of course, no argument against this view that the authors of the Diræ regard Gladstone as a maleficent being. In the Wrong Paradise These symptoms were accompanied by nausea and qualms at the pit of the stomach, while maleficent goblins kept puncturing their aguish, trembling legs with needles. The Downfall In the Baptism of Christ he finds a depraved energy, a maleficent puissance; but the ardent colours, the tonal vivacity, and the large, free handling excite the Frenchman's admiration. Promenades of an Impressionist Then should the ominous night-bird of Error, Scared by a sudden irruption of day, Flap his maleficent wings, and in terror Flit to the wilderness, dropping his prey. The Poems of William Watson It must be apt to study and praise elements that for the fulness of spiritual perfection are wanted, even though they belong to a power which in the practical sphere may be maleficent. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold A parallel, as usual, is found in Egypt, where Set, or Typhon, is commonly regarded as a maleficent spirit, the enemy of Osiris, the midnight sun. In the Wrong Paradise He is, indeed, inclined rather than otherwise to represent fate as a monstrous spider, unaccountable, often maleficent, hard to run away from. Old and New Masters Such is the contrast between beneficent business and maleficent business. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little But in the crude and maleficent despotic form of government which now obtains, they are likely to menace for a long time the well-being of the world. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of humanity. An Englishman Looks at the World Hence she was feared, not exactly as a maleficent deity, but as one whose business is with what is most dreaded and gloomy. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent I did not think that the influence, whatever it was, was maleficent. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Whether the "glorious darkness" denoted by the name Satan is an actual personage or a maleficent influence, is of secondary moment as far as the aim and moral of this discourse are concerned. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little These noisy and maleficent crowds, the kernel of all insurrections, from antiquity to our own times, are the only crowds known to the orator. The Psychology of Revolution He had an almost physical sense of struggling for air, of battling helplessly with material obstructions, as though the russet covert through which he trudged were the heart of a maleficent jungle... The Reef They applied to him to exercise his maleficent power on those whom they planned to deprive of their goods. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent That aspect of the sky which they now regard as disagreeable they then beheld as maleficent. The Mayor of Casterbridge Could the maleficent devil himself do more to drive a man mad?' The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Beneath any one of these might lurk the maleficent brain, the spying eyes of Calendar or one of his creatures; beneath all of them that he encountered, Kirkwood peered in fearful inquiry. The Black Bag In Mexico and other uneven countries, where storms and earthquakes were frequent, the sun, altho he was reckoned among their deities, was not considered so powerful as those of a more boisterous and maleficent nature. The Columbiad How often had she not felt its maleficent charm, and had no power to resist it! Jean-Christophe Journey's End It is true, there must always have been a horror of secret arts, especially of such as were of a maleficent nature. Lives of the Necromancers Pain of that kind was nevertheless a magnificent change from the other ghastly nightmares, of the wholly maleficent kind. Snake and Sword A Novel O brood maleficent, teemed from Earth's dark womb! Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Influence of Slavery on the Negro.—There is no longer any doubt that the influence of slavery on the negro, as a form of industry, was both beneficent and maleficent. Sociology and Modern Social Problems A stranger of another race, loitering here, might cast his eyes up, in a vague wonder what powers, kind or maleficent, controlled or observed this whirlpool. Letters from America What front can we make against these unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces? Representative Men And now I will try to show the difference between this Determinism, which some think must prove so maleficent, and the Christian doctrine of Free Will, which many consider so beneficent. God and my Neighbour He considers the theory of a beneficent or maleficent deity a purely sentimental fancy, contradicted by human reason and the aspect of the world. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Nothing in this world, he thought, is worth our peace of mind, and love robs us of that, therefore it must be maleficent. Celibates The Latins called the maleficent ghosts of the dead, Larvae, and called the beneficent or harmless ghosts, Lares, or Manes, or Genii, according to Apuleius. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation He had raised his head, and was looking at something which he seemed to see in front of him with a maleficent glare in his sensitive eyes which it was not nice to see. The Beetle Thus far I am with the Socialists, in that I denounce the commercial class, the bourgeois, the capitalists—call them what you will—as the supremely maleficent. Demos They are only different manifestations of the same mysterious energy which, like energy in general, is in itself neither good nor bad, but becomes beneficent or maleficent according to its application. The Golden Bough A Mongolian legend has it that the gods wished to punish the maleficent Arakho for his misdeeds, but Arakho hid so cleverly that their limited omnipotence could not find him. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. Dubliners Alas! it was from the terror of these spectres and the noise beneath the mountains, that our people have fled, and left us at the mercy of maleficent spirits!” The History of Caliph Vathek Scarcely more agreeable is the bogie, or witch, blowing from her mouth a malevolent exhalation, an embodiment of malignant and maleficent sorcery. Books and Bookmen This drives away the witches; for so far as the sound of the whips is heard, these maleficent beings can do no harm. The Golden Bough But they have not regarded her even with that interest which is called benevolent because it is not actively maleficent. Darwin and Modern Science It was something that was being awakened in him, an image incarnate of outward conditions, as cruel, as ugly, as maleficent as were those outward conditions. The Valley of the Moon A prey to the maleficent power which acts relaxingly upon us by the fluid circulating through our nerves, his whole frame seemed gradually to experience a dissolving process. The Magic Skin Exeat Fiddlestring!—Beneficent men are not they who appear on platforms, pleading against the Almighty Maker's Laws; these are the maleficent men, whose lips it is pity that some authority cannot straightway shut. Latter-Day Pamphlets But the use of images for this maleficent purpose was a capital crime; any person caught in the act of burying one of them in the public road would surely have been put to death. The Golden Bough The Indians of Mexico employed for this maleficent purpose the left fore-arm of a woman who had died in giving birth to her first child; but the arm had to be stolen. The Golden Bough But apart from this negative virtue of maleficent knots, there are certain beneficent knots to which a positive power of healing is ascribed. The Golden Bough The maleficent power of knots may also be manifested in the infliction of sickness, disease, and all kinds of misfortune. The Golden Bough |
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