demoniacally

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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

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.

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

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At length he begins to feel our steady pull, and inch by inch, struggling demoniacally, he nears the bank.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James

Both really lived, but Bluebeard the more demoniacally.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar