The demon, a Mephistophelian figure, emerges as a flawed, suffering Romantic hero.
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For my entire life as an Agatha Christie devotee, Suchet—with his Mephistophelian eyebrows, prim mustache, and aquiline features—was Poirot.
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The onyx-black statue has drawn criticism from people who think a mephistophelian tribute to the Fall of Man seems a little … un-Christmaslike.
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If the setup — Mephistophelian evil versus hometown decency, with ordinary human failing in the middle — rings a little familiar, it may be early to judge.
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Ever trying, ever failing, one begins to sense a kind of Mephistophelian glee at work here, as if someone were delighting in our hopelessness before the task.
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American opera companies that rely on works like "Faust" should take a chance on "Demon," which offers a fresh, rich alternative: a Mephistophelian story with a spiritual twist.
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Then again, the blasé Troy Van Leeuwen I spoke to backstage was nothing like the Mephistophelian guitarist who took the stage with the rest of the band later that night at a very reasonable 9:30 PM—it was a school night after all.
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But unless Mr Bush makes a miraculous recovery or Mr Rubio graduates to become the establishment candidate, they may have to come to terms with having either a yellow-haired populist or a Mephistophelian demagogue (whose views are the lite-version of the populist's) as their candidate.
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Meanwhile, boy starts hearing terrifying voices in his head, beset by demons from within and without (his sadistic tyrant of a father, his asshole cousin) boy loses mind and, eventually, the confidence of his band mates who pull the plug on his game-changing "teenage symphony to God" originally called Dumb Angel, but later re-titled Smile, boy retreats into a years-long bedroom hermitage of Herculean drug consumption, morbid obesity and sweet insanity; columnated ruins domino, family hires Mephistophelian psychiatrist/psychic vampire Dr. Eugene Landy, who switches out boy's steady diet of cocaine, Scotch, sloth, and self-pity for a zombie-fying regimen of prescription narcotics, fitness Nazism, and 24-7 mind control; boy meets girl (Melinda Ledbetter, his soon-to-be second wife) at a Cadillac dealership and falls in love, girl rescues boy from the clutches of the evil doctor, boy lives happily ever after, or a reasonably close approximation thereof.
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He remarked that "the Kaiser is exposed as a master intriguer and Mephistophelian plotter for German domination of the world. The former Tsar is revealed as a capricious weakling, a characterless, colourless nonentity." The two, Bernstein wrote, "both talked for peace and plotted against it." In 1915, Bernstein published a book, La Rekta Gibulo, in the so-called universal language Esperanto.
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Among his first Gothic works was The Landlady. The stepfather's demonic fiddle and the mysterious seller in Netochka Nezvanova are Gothic-like. Other aspects of the genre can be found in Crime and Punishment, for example the dark and dirty rooms and Raskolnikov's Mephistophelian character, and in the descriptions of Nastasia Filippovna in The Idiot and Katerina Ivanovna in The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's use of space and time were analysed by philologist Vladimir Toporov.
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As for Barnes' controversial character, Cardus said that he was not an easy man to handle on the field of play because there was a "Mephistophelian aspect about him" in that (unlike the amateurs) he didn't play cricket out of any "green field starry-eyed idealism". Cardus said that Barnes was a hostile, attacking bowler. Cardus said Barnes always made the batsman play the ball and Barnes himself said about later bowlers sending down so many balls the batsman needn't play that: "I didn't. I never gave'em any rest".
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The 1911 strike provides a violent backdrop to the family conflict, and the working class is not presented as "the hope for the future" in this novel, but as "an undisciplined and purposeless mass".Stokes, p. 48. The oldest son Desmond is directly involved with the strike because he is a union organizer, and during the riot he is involved in a violent altercation with a mounted policeman. During the strike Peter has a strange encounter with the Mephistophelian, homosexual Professor Titmouse, who sensing Peter's "fascination with the sights and sounds of the riots [...] lures him into the central square".
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In New York City, Beef and Hapi, two hitmen who work for a mysterious Mephistophelian crime boss known as "M", kill a drug dealer and his girlfriend. This violence is detailed in the newspaper articles of Ron Balfour, a journalist who meets Doctor Jade DeCamp in a cafe. Jade has been fired from Bellevue Hospital and is furious over the accidental death of her patient and secret lover, John Jaspers. After Jade leaves the cafe, she and Balfour are assaulted by a gang and a horn-masked figure, Faust, appears laughing and singing while he slaughters the street punks with a pair of retractable forearm talons.
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LaVey's image has been described as "Mephistophelian," and may have been inspired by an occult-themed episode of the television show The Wild Wild West titled "The Night of the Druid's Blood" which originally aired on March 25, 1966 and starred Don Rickles as the evil magician and Satanic cult leader Asmodeus, whose Mephistophelean persona is virtually identical to that which LaVey adopted one month later. Media attention followed the subsequent Satanic wedding ceremony of journalist John Raymond to New York City socialite Judith Case on February 1, 1967. The Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle were among the newspapers that printed articles dubbing him "The Black Pope".
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During a tête-à- tête, Lockhart reminds Sharky of their prior meeting which occurred twenty- five years to the day previously, when the pair were remanded together in the Bridewell Garda Barracks when Sharky had been arrested over the killing of a vagrant, Lawrence Joyce. During the period of their captivity Sharky had agreed to a game of cards in which he wagered his soul in a game of poker against Lockhart in a bid to gain his freedom. Sharky won the game and with it his freedom, but with the proviso that Lockhart would at some future date, have an opportunity to play him once again. The play culminates with the poker game played between the five men, ostensibly a harmless game of cards, it is in fact a game for Sharky’s soul as Lockhart reveals himself, in a series of private disclosures to Sharky, to be a Mephistophelian entity.
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