daemonic

That which I called the daemonic I had encountered for the first time outside my own mind in Lermontof's hero.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

Still, the main thing for me was that in the first great and wholly modern poets that I made acquaintance with, Byron and his intellectual successors, Lermontof and Heine, I recognised again the very fundamental trait that I termed daemonic, the worship of one's own originality, under the guise of an uncompromising love of liberty.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

She recognised in these doctrines the recurrence of daemonic, that is, of heathen conceptions; and condemned us secular Gnostic Christianity, with its asceticism and its lofty proclamations of the nobility and value of the

Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine 1851-1930 1911

Even if the right has come under the sway of "daemonic" spirits, has been seduced into believing that evil forces represent the righteousness in whose garb they dress themselves, this has not lessened the power that comes from breaking through the mundane.

Thoughts on the Spiritual Condition of America's Leftward Half 2006

One finds, strewn throughout the decade of the 1850s, signs of a kind of daemonic possession (using the term without making any assertion about the existence of beings unseen).

This Time --Unlike the Other Time Evil Wrought Havoc on America-- There will be No Romanticizing the Story 2006

The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

Archive 2005-12-18 2005

The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

DEMON SEED by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam 1973) 2005

My self-consciousness assumes heroic dimensions, and I begin to regard what is to come with a kind of daemonic humour.

The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann 1892

The "daemonic" was also responsible for the mingled attraction that was exerted over me at this point by a young foreign student, and for the intercourse which ensued between us.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

Something daemonic is the best I can come up with.

Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011