daemon

Example Sentences

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Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Dan Kois: What was that time in your life like, when, as it were, your daemon started to settle?

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

The BBC, by contrast, is seeing the epic drama through from the opening glass of tokay to the concluding moment, when Lyra's daemon mutates into a pine marten.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2020

Lyra is no longer a child but a troubled young adult who finds herself estranged from her daemon Pantalaimon — effectively at war with herself.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

He was a witch’s daemon, and much older than she was, and stronger.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman