That which I called the daemonic I had encountered for the first time outside my own mind in Lermontof's hero. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth]
One finds, strewn throughout the decade of the 1850s, signs of a kind of daemonic possession (using the term without making any assertion about the existence of beings unseen). From Wordnik.com. [This Time --Unlike the Other Time Evil Wrought Havoc on America-- There will be No Romanticizing the Story] Reference
My self-consciousness assumes heroic dimensions, and I begin to regard what is to come with a kind of daemonic humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
You have fallen before the daemonic minions of darkness!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Hence he defines boredom as “the daemonic side of pantheism.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
"Now don't you go tryin 'any of your daemonic tricks on me ... if you' ave any.". From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
"Wizard it may be, though it was more of a daemonic effect you had upon my men.". From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
You recognize a new mode when the author refers to his own theory as "dark and daemonic.". From Wordnik.com. [Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly] Reference
Because it was developed in the 90s and therefore tainted with Clinton daemonic satanism?. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: What Are YOU Wearing to Yearly Kos?] Reference
Nietzschean gospel of daemonic will and ruthless self-assertion, just then being preached in Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
The German theologian Rudolf Otto located the origin of human religiosity in an ancient experience of "daemonic dread.". From Wordnik.com. [Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
Steel found oily, charred patches nearby, had a sudden image of daemonic soldiers, touched by forged steel, bursting into flame. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of Summer Flame]
In the case of the gods, the matter is somewhat less simple than in that of all these daemonic creatures of the popular imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference
She was a little daemonic wrecker; she often appeared to him like a little bird of prey, that would fain have made him, too, her booty. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Builder] Reference
First off, a daemon wouldn't let hisself be cut as easy as you did and second, they don't fall flat on their puss when they be in pursuit of daemonic prey. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
And maybe the tablets they prescribe for us AREN'T for our "high blood pressure" or "diabetes" or other supposed "illnesses" that are actually caused by daemonic infestation. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama Show US Your Penis] Reference
For this was the mainspring of the German campaign in the East; the Führer's daemonic genius, in defeat as in victory, exerted influence at each shift in the fortunes of battle. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
A new kind of daemonic possession became possible. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference
If you read this CD backwards you'll hear daemonic phrases. From Wordnik.com. [GNOME-Look.org Content] Reference
The genius of Homer in this matter is in fact something daemonic. From Wordnik.com. [IV. On the Capital Difficulty of Verse] Reference
The spirituality of the right has been hijacked by daemonic forces. From Wordnik.com. Reference
For the Bloodcrusher, picture a daemonic rhino charging into enemy infantry. From Wordnik.com. [VideoGamer.com - All Updates] Reference
It has primitive, daemonic and dark as well as elevated, noble and pure aspects. From Wordnik.com. [Earthpages.ca - Think Free] Reference
The spirits, dynamic and daemonic, bring the island that is 'full of noises' alive. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
I was always brooding over this idea of the daemonic with which my mind was filled. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth]
I was daemonic in giving myself this reply it seemed to me that I had solved the riddle of my nature. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
YahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The spirituality of the right has been hijacked by daemonic forces. From Wordnik.com. [A Discussion Question: What Kind of Sacred Principles Do We Need?] Reference
And daemonic natures are not made to walk straight through the world; they must meander a little now and then. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Duck] Reference
National Death; or else some preternatural convulsive outburst of National Life; -- that same, daemonic outburst!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
It was Marlowe's daemonic power and intensity that first interested Shakespeare in this Richard; under the spell of. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
Ephraim's "daemonic force," and calls Merrill one of the "strangest, the most unnerving of all this country's poets.". From Wordnik.com. [Personism] Reference
Wherein the 'daemonic element,' that lurks in all human things, may doubtless, some once in the thousand years -- get vent!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Her daemonic practicality finds the perfect and most grotesquely funny way to dispose of the bodies Sweeney's razor provides. From Wordnik.com. [Rochester City Newspaper] Reference
But in the first place I had to look after the other brute; I mean our daemonic friend, of course; and then I fell so dead asleep that. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Duck] Reference
Hence the moral task — perfect asceticism, flight from daemonic nature, union with the original source of spirit by gnosis and knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine] Reference
A circuit of twelve miles or more his knowledge was something daemonic. From Wordnik.com. [Nicky-Nan, Reservist] Reference
(says Fable), if you pull her mandrake-roots, will give a daemonic mad-making moan. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
A Paris Lycée, to his heroic death in the field, September 1914, by a daemonic force of character. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
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