All around me I sensed evil beings poised with daggers.

He demonized the political leadership of my country.

Jeeves was standing on the horizon, looking devilish brainy.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

On the other hand, I don t want to demonize Putin.

Oh, no, said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap.

But the thought of applying pressure on the donors is, to say the least, nightmarish.

And also and that's, of course, where economics gets evil to put down what are the things we should not do, first.

So, without further ado, I will present to you, ladies and gentlemen now be careful, 'cause it's evil a copy, the official copy, of the gay agenda.

There's gonna be the biggest, noisiest, most devilish, glorious drinking and dancing wedding ever celebrated in this godforsaken part of the world.

In Uganda, in addition to the usual causes of conflict, we have been fighting a fanatical, satanic rebel group, the self styled Lord's Resistance Army.

I always used to think that publishers had to be devilish intelligent fellows, loaded down with the grey matter but I've got their number now.

Ronald Reagan pioneered a wave of policy and propaganda in the United States in the 1980 s that demonized the National Endowment for the Arts.

This barbarous act, reminiscent of another age, cynically perpetrated by military figures motivated by some unknown demon, cannot leave any human being indifferent.

You can build upon something by looking at it from a different angle or the true devil's advocacy, which is an overused business word . . . term.

Far from being the spawn of the devil, CDSs are a useful financial instrument that can improve not only financial stability, but also the way that companies and countries are run.

As for labor rights, the agreement makes a devil s bargain it opens trade while locking in a status quo that is appalling. Workers face everything from rampant discrimination against older people (those over 35) to physical abuse, lack of bathroom breaks, no overtime pay, and poverty wages.

Each time such horrible stories were published, we had to remind ourselves that, yes indeed, the acts were demonic, but the perpetrators remained each a child of God.

Blasphemy became a global concern in the late 1980 s when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the assassination of the writer Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses.

Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in Stairway to Heaven ? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe and overlook the facts.

And when that doesn't work, when it turns out that people who disagree with us have all the same facts we do and are actually pretty smart, then we move on to a third assumption they know the truth, and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purposes.

There have been several episodes in recent years in which perceptions of blasphemy have led to threats of violence or actual killings, starting with the publication of Salman Rushdie s novel The Satanic Verses more than two decades ago, and including the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Just about any woman who was not born into privilege, has small children at home, and is not a cannibal or a Satanist would elicit initial roars of approval from women in general, and surely from a group that has been silenced and trivialized for so long.