Significados de mephistophelean en inglés

That Mephistophelean spirit of detraction has wide scope in this day.

It's a Mephistophelean thing: I can show you power and money if you go with me.

He was thus the very man to pour a cool Mephistophelean spray upon Schiller's emotional fervors.

Mendoza, with a Mephistophelean smile, bows profoundly.

When he smiled he revealed a row of very large white teeth, and his smile was correctly Mephistophelean.

He advanced smiling, and in the bright sunlight seemed even more Mephistophelean than he had seemed in Harley's office.

Julian, in describing Marr to Valentine, had pronounced him Satanic, and this dead face was, in truth, somewhat Mephistophelean.

Mephistophelean was more high sounding.

The red-haired judge, with straw hat and Mephistophelean limp, was there, looking like an Offenbach villain out for a spree.

For they range all the way from the most mordant to the most pathetic irony-fromMephistophelean laughter to warm, human tears:

Standing in the doorway he bowed, and if his smile was Mephistophelean, there was much about Colonel Juan Menendez which commanded respect.

A scarlet halo begins to glow; and into it the Devil rises, very Mephistophelean, and not at all unlike Mendoza, though not so interesting.

"You don't hear the words," the doctor remarked, with a smile which, in the dark, looked Mephistophelean.