He sees Aldous's early "diabolism" as "a very thin and papery mask"; he refers to wishful thinking, to unsureness of judgment, to gullibility, to matters of self-regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Utilitarian] Reference

It can only vaguely connote a vague darkness or diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The So Called "War Against Evil"] Reference

The very diabolism of the device acquitted Dorothy, according to.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Husband by Proxy] Reference

A wizard was understandable; but this was diabolism beyond sanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

But even at that distance Conan sensed the basic diabolism of their features.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Dance and dance music were accused with particu - lar bitterness of diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART] Reference

In the popular imagination, Poe is the dreary, unsmiling, black-clad bard of diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poe at 200 -- Eerie After All These Years] Reference

But train-wrecking must always be the result of the purest malice, -- of diabolism unalloyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference

At this writing, only England has held back before the temptations of contemporary diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

He loathes alike the acquisitiveness of capitalist society and the diabolism of communist Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolai Berdyaev] Reference

When diabolism rises, however, actions are the least important manifests of the true nature of a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

A royal commission was ordered to inquire into the now notorious circumstances of the Loudun diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

But behind Xaltotun lie a thousand centuries of black magic and diabolism, an ancient tradition of evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

A deathly faintness and weakness took hold of me, for what white man could watch such black diabolism unmoved?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

Strange that a devil has to break down a door like a common man; but after all, his strength itself is a diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Strange that a devil has to break down a door like a common man; but after all, his strength itself is a diabolism. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil In Iron]

Not a fanciful comparison: in Manny there were unfathomable depths, in Errol a diabolism that was frightening to be near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalooki Nights] Reference

There is an excellent recentish book 'King Leopold's Ghosts' on the utter diabolism practiced in the Belgian Congo of that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Severed heads all in a row] Reference

By what godless alchemy these beings had been brought into existence, he could not guess; but he knew he faced diabolism blacker than the Well of Skelos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

French troops massacring and murdering men, women, and children; rampant diabolism, and incarnate revenge were at work in the most beautiful city in the world!.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

Balthazar Becker, one of the most meritorious of the opponents of diabolism, was deposed from his ministerial office by an ecclesiastical synod, and denounced as an atheist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

A fact which may account for the seeming indifference and even the opposition of a large number of the people in this case of diabolism which obtained comparatively little credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

He was the founder of diabolism in French letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference

It didn't occur to anybody that he or his Catholic diabolism mattered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference

The two orders are further distinguished as unorganised and as organised diabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

Let there be as little diabolism as possible, but as much of the divinity as you can get.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference

Before the year 1891 the diabolism identified with Masonry was almost exclusively intellectual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

The Left wing extremists must realise that no just cause can be secured by such diabolism, and retribution will overtake them.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And it isn't -- amusing -- to go to the devil with anybody whose diabolism would be so efficiently pious -- a reversed kind of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young People's Pride] Reference

Would any other Government intermingle so foolishly, so childishly its State and Federal authority as to permit such diabolism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference

Val looked at him suspiciously, but something kindly and direct in the heavy diabolism of his companion disarmed him for the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference