Lammle stands with folded arms, Mephistophelean in a corner, with Georgiana and Fledgeby.
Twemlow, in a stunned condition, feigns to compare the portrait in his hand with the original looking towards him from his Mephistophelean corner.
His voracity is well known, and from the circumstance that the inner angles of his lips are curved upwards, he carries an everlasting
Mephistophelean grin on his face.
His hair was white and well brushed back like a German's; his face was red, fierce and cherubic, with one dark tuft under the lower lip that threw up that otherwise infantile visage with an effect theatrical and even
Mephistophelean. Not long, however, did that salon merely stare at the celebrated American; his lateness had already become a domestic problem, and he was sent with all speed into the dining-room with Lady Galloway on his arm.
But seldom written about Ventura (aside from the man spending nine challenging years as a full-time art teacher) were the doomed alliance with a
Mephistophelean gallery owner, the falling-out, the fights and various rifts with various figures in the art industry.
When this distraught colossus of sorrow, the unsleeping and suicidal cowboy, offered his body in sacrifice to the camera and to the mob of entranced fans, he struck Francois Mauriac as a
Mephistophelean figure.
Similarly, Volpone yearns for Celia while Mosca assumes a
Mephistophelean role, acting as an accomplice to Volpone by making attempts at overpowering Celia.
In this crucible, bodies take on some that is characteristic of an almost infinite plasticity (14) insofar as they can easily conform to human whims, also serving the imperative of the
Mephistophelean delusions of immortality.
Japanese director Shunji Iwai rudely tears up the phony promise of marriage and bourgeois life In "A Bride for Rip Van Winkle," a cruel yet riveting tale of a young wife's Inexorable fall from grace once she succumbs to the
Mephistophelean services of a shady Mr.
You may miss a little of its
Mephistophelean aspect but just revel in Hewitt's plush, velvety tone which makes some passages absolutely sumptuous.
Whether it is the "Contra" rebels in Nicaragua or al-Qaeda-like groups in Afghanistan,the objective has always been to achieve strategic objectives through the infliction of mass suffering - for, in the "free and civilised world" of the US and its allies, the utopian end too often justifies the
Mephistophelean means.
This explanation ascribes the
Mephistophelean power with a sort of realism, indicating that the devil must comply with the seasonal differences in the natural world.
mephistophelean - showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"