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How to use Mephistopheles in a sentence

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Gretchen is his ideal with her delicacy and restraint, but Mephistopheles in all his fiendish devilry aims to thwart the lovers.
Faust's friends, who assemble at his house on the night he is taken by Mephistopheles, arebrightly rendered by the symphony chorus.
But I'd put up another darkly alluring statue behind Paterno, whispering in his ear: Mephistopheles.
In most films this would be the voice of Mephistopheles, here it's the voice of enlightened common sense.
When Faust and Mephistopheles enter the witch's kitchen, she is a truly ugly Halloween witch.
In a way, he's my counterpart, the Mephistopheles of the story, the king of temptation.
If it is true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow.
The precise nature of Faust's agreement with the diabolical figure Mephistopheles remains inexplicit, however.
But these kids make for wan enemies, after the Mephistopheles Berezovsky almost too small to pick on.
The spirit, Mephistopheles, led Faust into real trouble, of course, by such a dramatic prompt in mistranslating the great first line of the Gospel of St John.
Mephistopheles is dealing with a stacked deck and he knows it.
Ryu was once another man, Takuto, who was killed in an accident with his lady-love Maki, but has been resurrected by a would-be Mephistopheles with a sinister agenda.
He also prepared two big productions in Italy, the choreography of Mephistopheles by Boito, turned into an opera-ballet and the revival of his triumphal Nutcracker in the Arena in Verona.
Unlike Goethe's Mephistopheles, who bewitches Faust by having him drink a love potion so that he falls in love with the first woman he meets, Lenau's Mephistopheles takes the discouraged scholar to a village wedding.
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life.
This depiction of an ideal of redemption through eternal womanhood describes the journey of Faust's soul, rescued from the clutches of Mephistopheles, to its final ascent into heaven.
Examples from Classical Literature
Corporal Penington was, I believe, as usual, the inspiring Mephistopheles of the affair.
Possibly, like Mephistopheles in Faust, he may retaliate on his adversaries.
The old myth of age to youth and the subcurrent of sin with its stalking, laughing, subtle Mephistopheles.
At this juncture the superserviceable Mephistopheles of the Empire, Fouch, intervened.
Meanwhile however Mephistopheles presents himself and is accepted as a locum tenens.
Bass-baritone John Relyeas vocally and visually dashing Mephistopheles ran the gamut of emotion from seductiveness to irony and cynicism.
We need no Mephistopheles to accomplish these marvels every day!
The Chancellor looked like Mephistopheles behind Margaret in the church.
He would have been to Faust a more dangerous tempter than Mephistopheles.
As Faust and Mephistopheles set out on their journey, life passes before our eyes in all its ever-changing forms.
Miss Alcott's Mephistopheles is even capable of generous impulses.
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