There is a close relationship in Scripture between the animal world and the demonic. |
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In the nineteenth century for instance, it was a very Byronic role, very demonic and tormented and isolated, tortured romantic figure. |
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There's the sour pucker on a snow lynx, a soulful pout on a groundhog, and a demonic stare on a giant panda. |
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She shoved past a merchant selling amulets to ward against evil entities and demonic sprites. |
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If we look at carved gods on heathen temples we see fearful, gruesome, repulsive demonic representations that millions bow down to and worship. |
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On the streets, cars streaked by with their feral engines roaring and blood-red beams of lights sparkling, like demonic eyes from their exterior. |
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Six inches away from them was another pair of eyes, a wild, staring, demonic pair of eyes. |
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Fifty feet below, the cabin squats near the tumbledown outcropping of rock like a demonic toad. |
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In fact, she showed many of the classic signs of advanced demonic possession. |
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During my worst periods I became involved with clairvoyants and Ouija boards so I used to get demonic visitations. |
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From the demonology of the Maori people of New Zealand comes a race of demonic fay known as the patupaiarehe. |
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I saw many feuds erupt in a blaze of automatic fire, peppering the walls with bullets that whined through the air like demonic bees. |
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As a result, the actors look flushed and faintly demonic throughout the picture. |
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So the demonic paedophiles staring wildly from newspaper photofits are victims too. |
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Soon it was thought incubi produced children through the demonic version of the Virgin Birth. |
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Heart turned at a sudden crackle and watched as the demonic blades flared and burned, leaving not even scorches where they had fallen. |
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Furthermore, he draws an analogy between the belief in hypnosis and the belief in demonic possession and exorcism. |
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But there's a major difference between believing in demonic possession and using torture and beatings to exorcize children. |
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In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite opponent. |
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The six-storey tall screen captures the demonic fury of the falls in such realistic detail that you cringe with fear as you watch it. |
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He was terrified, however, that his demonic heritage would frighten her off and hid it as best he could. |
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In fact, every culture, no matter how primitive and pre-scientific, had a belief in some form of demonic possession. |
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One form of theological language that is sometimes used is that of the demonic or principalities and powers. |
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He breathes a blend of demonic intensity and weary detachment in his character's unforgettable vision. |
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She remembered being furious with the demonic Keytako, and that's when she blacked out. |
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It was the Grim Reaper, but he was not as wild or demonic as she had once fancied him to be. |
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One either has the Spirit of Christ, or he has the spirit of the Antichrist which is a demonic presence dwelling within him. |
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They have to be joyous peasants, drunken students and evil spirits singing demonic gibberish. |
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Even today, Levitation is often thought to be involved in cases of demonic possession. |
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Some readers think he's a demonic force for mediocrity, others believe he's an apostle of decent design for the masses. |
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Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic. |
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Nowhere is this more obvious than in the ronde they perform, laughing and prancing in a circle of demonic light. |
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Since most Fantasy stories have a medieval slant, this has resulted in a lot of wars between kings and lords and princes and demonic forces. |
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He also well knew that demonic violence has long characterized human affairs. |
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I eventually gave up and called a priest to come over and exorcise the demonic spirits. |
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In general, Hindu practices, and sati in particular, are repeatedly characterized as demonic in a manner similar to European witchcraft. |
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It seems there's nothing like a demonic manifestation to stimulate the giving spirit. |
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It was my first experience of being addressed by a demonic spirit through someone else's lips. |
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The demonic glowing eyes he carried gazed upon the spirit of Phyoni, grimacing at the sight. |
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Was there some evil demonic being looking to recruit unsuspecting people for a diabolical plan? |
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Beliefs in magic and demonic possession look mad to us now, but they were naive attempts to establish causal relations and to control the world. |
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Few were the demonic females he had meet with such a fine physical shell and yet able to bear themselves with such dignity and self-control. |
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In the early Middle Ages popular superstition began to associate witchcraft with demonic possession and the rejection of God. |
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The warriors remained calm and relaxed, listening to the trample of the demonic horde just feet in front of them. |
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The blade was trimmed with a demonic red, with a dark orange being the interior colour. |
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The Liszt, a showpiece in any conductor's hands, but certainly one in Stokowski's hands, could be more demonic, however. |
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What made the 1973 film stand out was that it set its demonic possession in a humdrum modern-day context. |
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I could now distinguish the difference between human evil and demonic evil it seemed. |
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So clearly we must have two different people here, or a schizophrenic, or a case of demonic possession. |
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Also known for his almost demonic pride, he produced masterpieces of boastful verses. |
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The whole house and yard were cleaned thoroughly to banish all bad joss and demonic spirits. |
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The appearance may just be your psychological patterns, but for you it is a spirit, it is demonic, and it is real. |
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They are forced to swallow and later regurgitate foreign objects, which Onokoko then displays as proof of demonic possession. |
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The broadly gashed mouth gives it a fierce expression, like that of Chinese demonic masks. |
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And another chapter concerns the various demonic figures that acted as bogeys, especially for Greek women. |
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It is not people or places which are exorcised, but rather the demonic forces of evil in those persons or places. |
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After a ten-hour sleep, the demonic partners filled the Beetle with a fresh volume of unleaded. |
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He is not pessimistic due to the fact that there is no credible evidence for the reality of demonic possession. |
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But the all-out award for nauseating singing has to go to the demonic brats who attend England Schoolboy matches. |
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Proverbially wily, coyotes are also a little demonic, and their dogginess only adds to the sense of lurking menace. |
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The switch to the demonic way of the deep happens through the diminished chord. |
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In Gaskell's Life, Emily is a faintly demonic, Jekyll and Hyde character, all sweetness one minute, torturing puppy-dogs the next. |
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As demonic as they first appear, these knuckle-draggers quickly endear themselves to the audience as the ultimate underdogs. |
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The glaring lights and the loud noises of the vehicles, the demonic screeches of the honkers and the non-stop blaring of the speakers at the canteen made sleep impossible. |
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It's a bad time to visit unless you enjoy the pyrotechnics of lightning and floods of warmish soupy rain, plus the constant threat of demonic cyclones. |
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If you think that demonic powers are present at the moment, just wait until the saints have been raptured away and Satan and his armies have taken full control of the earth. |
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Scherman's images, painted on a heroic scale and with muscular intensity, have that same aggrandizing effect, even as they depict anti-heroes, culprits, demonic strategists. |
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Soon, she is captured by demonic forces in a moment suggesting sexual assault. |
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When it comes to people, though, discerning demonic influence is more difficult. |
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Nothing in the zombie theory explains why they act the way they do, unless we hypothesize the existence of unseen causes, demonic puppet masters, or the like. |
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They all demand hyper-mobility and a demonic coordination that has you switching into retrograde or performing the top half of one phrase with the bottom of another. |
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Does it merely take a united family leveling threats all at once to exorcise some of the demonic powers of addiction? |
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While people once might have attributed maladies to demonic possession, we now talk confidently about disease-generating microorganisms and parasites. |
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The explosive finale, when demonic fans run amok at a movie premiere, is hair-raising in its viciousness. |
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But soon it will fall prey to the marauding demonic forces of evil. |
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Some American evangelicals export teen exorcists to the UK to fight the Harry Potter induced demonic infestation there. |
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The soul could conceivably exist without a body, as Descartes tried to show when he carried out the thought experiment of imagining himself subject to demonic deception. |
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The latter role is danced by Alain Honorez, a spindle-shanks of towering talents and demonic energy, who almost upstaged the leads with his dazzling display of movement. |
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We are a godly people, which makes our enemies ungodly, even demonic. |
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And while worldly success sometimes has a whiff of demonic patronage, identification is dangerous. |
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Chrono, her demonic familiar, is filled with firsthand knowledge of the armies of the netherworld, and this could provide the Order with the necessary edge. |
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I think he was abducted by a cult that worship the demi-god Baal and forced to spin records at their parties and compose chants and songs which praised this demonic entity. |
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Now too weak to move, Willow stared in horror as Buffy's face transformed itself into the demonic visage that all vampires hid beneath the trappings of humanity. |
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I am referring to the reports of miracles, faith healers, visitations by angelic or demonic beings, ghosts or goblins, or contact with dearly departed friends and relatives. |
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Shift has invoked Tash, a vulture-headed demonic power, only because he is too purblind actually to believe in him. |
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We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score. |
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A youngster from a disturbingly troubled background, he was left to wander the woods near his home, armed with a gun and a headful of demonic thoughts. |
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What pack of demonic hellhounds brought you into this world? |
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Curtis wanted me to play him as a psychotic, demonic character. |
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At the same time, demonic possession increased dramatically, probably because demonism in general and witchcraft in particular were preoccupations of the age. |
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A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability. |
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It succeeds admirably, while exulting in a twisted demonic aesthetic. |
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Disabused former members investigated Lueken's cult critically for signs of fraud or demonic manipulation. |
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In the encounter in the country of Gerasenes, Jesus acts with great power to defeat the demonic powers. |
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Asgard, the realm of the gods, remains locked in an eternal struggle between the benevolent Aesir and the demonic Vanir. |
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Tommy is a student at a Navaho boarding school for gifted children, and it appears that the school itself may be affected by demonic possession. |
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When Kente Cromwell is murdered, he is given demonic powers and escapes purgatory to go back to earth and avenge his death as The Hangman. |
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He had walked the wilds of Imokoi before, he had pierced rakshas illusions, seenthrough the mist of demonic dwimmer-craft centuries ago. |
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Convinced that his uncle was a warlock, he rifled through his attic, looking for demonic artifacts. |
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Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession. |
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In Maharashtra and in Java, the sepoys were regarded as the embodiment of demonic forces, sometimes of antique warrior heroes. |
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Elves appear as a threatening, even demonic, force widely in later medieval prayers. |
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Then there's Jack, the demonic LuvMyBaby pretend baby unit, which she's unable to unload before her plane departs for France. |
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Whether or not demonic forces are out to get Bruner for defending the priest is rendered pretty ambiguously as well. |
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Once he had grasped the controls, he unleashed a demonic laugh that made his hostages shudder. |
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Coetus without co-existence is demonic. What are you, you man and woman who are about to enter into sexual relations? |
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Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession. |
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What had silenced her, however, was the enormous demonic object that had apparated in the air beyond the tunnel's exit. |
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How strange to discover the only novel to be Peter Benchley's outrageous tale of demonic sharkdom, Jaws. |
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The soul of a dead person would divulge their mission, while a demonic ghost would be banished at the sound of the Holy Name. |
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The demonic legacy invests Merlin with a preternatural knowledge of the past and present, which is supplemented by God, who gives the boy a prophetic knowledge of the future. |
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Temporary Agency begins with a tale of demonic possession and adolescent crushes and ends with a slam-bang, all-out global confrontation between the forces of good and evil. |
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Coleridge was regarded by many as the greatest living writer on the demonic and he accepted the commission, only to abandon work on it after six weeks. |
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Cardinal Ratzinger noted that ambiguity is the mark of the demonic. |
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Interest in the demonic was heightened by the Gunpowder Plot. |
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