| No such illusion bedevilled the artifice of the opera, the equivalent art form of the late seventeenth century. |
| The business enterprise without records is bedevilled by the rush to catch up with developments that records would have enabled it to anticipate. |
| Their game for most of the first 50 minutes had been bedevilled by individual errors: the collective will was there but not the skill. |
| He brought a wealth of experience and hardheaded pragmatism to a problem bedevilled by fond hopes, misperceptions and sheer ignorance. |
| The shot indeed captured the club at an extremely low ebb, relegated to the Second Division and bedevilled by hooliganism. |
| My three-day tour in the French Basque country was bedevilled by all sorts of trouble. |
