demoniacally

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He plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit.

From Time Magazine Archive

No kin to his sister Swede, 41-year-old Ingmar Bergman is one of the most peculiarly gifted and demoniacally creative moviemakers of modern times�"a gothic Dante," one European critic called him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Cecil, though nowise to be ranked with Howard as demoniacally malevolent, had evinced no disposition to release him.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

The great Belgian's volcanic and almost demoniacally virile imagination had appealed to him from the first, as no other had ever done.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie