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Example sentences for "daemonic"

Lexicographically close words:
daedal; daedala; dael; daemon; daemones; daemons; daemonum; daer; daerah; daffing
  1. I was daemonic in giving myself this reply it seemed to me that I had solved the riddle of my nature.

  2. The first part is never-failing in the flash and sparkle of its play, all in pizzicato strings, with a wonderful daemonic quality of the mere instrumental effect.

  3. A full verse of the first Andante melody sings at the heart of the plot, followed by the strange daemonic play that keeps the mood within bounds.

  4. There is here an eccentric quality of humor, a daemonic conceit that reach the height of other classic expression of the supernatural.

  5. There is in the music a daemonic quality, inherent in the subject, that somehow vanishes with the concrete tale.

  6. And here the question arises, how it came about that in the Gnostic systems the Seven appear as subordinate, half-daemonic powers, or even completely as powers of darkness.

  7. It undermined the already crumbling polytheism; it made philosophy the apostle of a belief in a baleful daemonic agency.

  8. But it was, after all, a giddy and anxious elevation, and the influence of Seneca was only maintained by politic concessions, and was constantly threatened by the daemonic ambition of Agrippina.

  9. As a positive contribution to religious philosophy, the treatise is chiefly valuable for its theory of Evil and of daemonic powers, and above all for the doctrine of the unity of God, the central truth of all religions.

  10. A world of strange daemonic life surrounds us, a world of spirits and heroic souls akin to ours.

  11. The air positively thrills with daemonic terror and power.

  12. It was by a natural instinct that the Antonine Platonists went back to the great teacher of Plato for support of the system which was to link religion with philosophy by the daemonic theory.

  13. Another falls back on the theory of daemonic inspiration, which, mysteriously vouchsafed, may be as mysteriously withdrawn.

  14. The mind of genius is a wireless station attuned to the vibrations from the daemonic sphere; the works of genius fascinate and delight us largely for this reason: we, too, respond to these vibrations and are demonologists in our secret hearts.

  15. Only let none conceive that each separate figure in the swarming and noisy life of this populous daemonic creation has individual meaning and vitality.

  16. If they threaten the heathen with eternal punishment, the exegetes, hierophants, and mystagogues of the temples hurl back the same threat, and while words are equal, they can show proofs in daemonic activities and oracles.

  17. They stood for marriage and family life, while all around "holy" men felt there was an unclean and daemonic element in marriage.

  18. Earthly rulers too deserve worship, since they hold their positions not without daemonic influence.

  19. He holds the gods to have been men, long deceased, but agrees in believing in daemonic operations in shrines, etc.

  20. These daemonic countenances were crowned with twisted serpents, and had protruding tongues symbolical of life and light.

  21. Don Hypolito Xuarez, son of a Spanish adventurer and an Indian woman, possessed this daemonic influence, and gifted with such power, arose from obscurity to the full glory of supreme power.

  22. This daemonic influence is a peculiar characteristic of all great men, without which they could not hope to accomplish their missions.

  23. He fixed his daemonic gaze upon the amateur middle-weight champion.

  24. Chandler Robbins Ibn Jemin, From Illusions Informing Spirit, The In Memoriam Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love Initial Love, The Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War Insight Intellect J.

  25. For this fortune wanted root In the core of God's abysm,-- Was a weed of self and schism; And ever the Daemonic Love Is the ancestor of wars And the parent of remorse.

  26. National Death; or else some preternatural convulsive outburst of National Life;--that same, daemonic outburst!

  27. The pagan past, existent as a sort of daemonic survival, is localized at Hoersel.

  28. It was only by thus insisting upon the daemonic influence which controlled the fate of Helen that the conclusions reached by the rationalizing process of the dramatists could be avoided.

  29. As he is offering lustral sacrifice after the deed, he is suddenly stricken with madness by Lyssa (Fury), the daemonic agent of his enemy the goddess Hera, and in his frenzy he slays his wife and children.

  30. Secondly, the treatment of the subject is romantic and even fantastic,--strikingly so in the passage where Apollo is directly confronted with the daemonic figure of Thanatos.

  31. For God mingles not with man; but through the daemonic element (or Love) all the intercourse and converse of God with man, whether awake or asleep, is carried on.

  32. In Plato's Banquet the power or function of the daemonic element in nature is explained.

  33. A passion that knows not pity is merely a daemonic possession, and should be taken to the madhouse.

  34. I don't think she has in her enough of what Goethe calls the 'daemonic element' of our nature to dance well.

  35. Some people prefer the daemonic element," said he.

  36. Come now," said Nina, gayly, "and try a little more of the daemonic element.

  37. The really daemonic property of the gold is that everybody succumbs to its seduction and strives to possess it.

  38. Matilda in The Monk possesses daemonic power of enchantment and in the subterranean passages of the monastery she works her unhallowed arts.

  39. The description of the daemonic spirit tenanting the body of a dead person, driving him by a dreadful urge to attack the living, especially those dear to him in life, is much the same.

  40. She is the victim of her father's daemonic experiments in the effects of poison on the human body, and her kiss means death.

  41. Controlled by a daemonic spirit, the human being, that in his normal personality is kindly and gentle, becomes a jungle beast with ravening instincts.

  42. She tries to draw a man to his death, with daemonic charm, seen as a lovely woman, but a snow demon.

  43. Another daemonic figure popular in fiction is the werewolf.

  44. He has been so Burbanked of late, with his daemonic characteristics removed and humanities added that, save for sporadic reversion to type, the old familiar demon is almost a vanished form.

  45. The Moor in Zofloya is well versed in daemonic science.

  46. Under the influence of this a man weds a daemonic temptress thinking her the woman he loves, then commits suicide when he wakes to the truth.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daemonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.