satanic

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The Stones responded with “Their Satanic Majesties Request,” a psychedelic mess.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

He admitted he had only read two pages of "The Satanic Verses."

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

It marks a bizarre and spectacular union of the interests of Sir Lord Jimmy, who is so Satanic that he wears an upside-down cross, and the canny Dr. Kelson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The Satanic panic of the 1980s started in one small sphere, with child care workers as the supposed source of Satanic abuse, and expands outward to K-12 schools and then to media.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2025

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall