| In European literature there is a Goethean myth of the Faustian artist who sells his soul to the devil in return for absolute artistic power. |
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| A number of the stories are downers in which Faustian bargains of one kind or another produce predictable results. |
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| Has he struck a Faustian pact with the devil so he gets all the money in the world in exchange for his soul? |
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| You feel like you are still paying for that Faustian contract signed but long forgotten. |
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| He may have just turned 30, but his latest film displays a maturity and confidence that makes you ponder the terms of his Faustian deal. |
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| The Faustian story is one no writer could resist: it is too neat, too provocative to avoid. |
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| Autonomy and accountability are the diversionary opening bids in a Faustian negotiation. |
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| Bain Capital partner Edward Conard struck a Faustian pact with the publicity Devil. |
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| All this can be traced to a Faustian bargain Republicans made precisely 100 years after President Lincoln was re-elected. |
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| But yanked into the national spotlight by hidden cameras, it brought him a Faustian opportunity. |
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| But little by little, the Faustian fantasy shrinks away and the illusion of anticipating the future becomes an unceasing effort to foresee its perils. |
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| Unfortunately, this may prove a Faustian bargain with dangerous consequences. |
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| We have eroded civil liberties, but will our Faustian bargain give us greater security? |
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| It has been suggested that by accepting special and differential treatment the developing countries have struck a Faustian bargain. |
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| The social pact with unregulated finance capitalism is a Faustian one, and its price is the soul of the welfare state. |
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| In the Faustian pact, where desire and longing is transformed into a new kind of sublimation, the infernal process of turning images of reality into fantasy begins. |
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| In European literature there is even a Goethean myth of the Faustian artist who, surpassing compromise, sells his soul to the devil in return for absolute artistic power. |
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| God and the devil live side by side in your Faustian nature. |
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| Faustian bargains don't frequently turn out well. |
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| However leaders like Mr. Fox from Mexico or the prime minister of Costa Rica or Chile must make a bit of a Faustian bargain and hope the access they secure to the market is worth the sovereignty they must inevitably give up. |
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| There are times when a Faustian bargain will have to be struck in order to maintain order in a given polity, which could come at the expense of other components of post-conflict resolution and efforts toward reconciliation. |
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| This modern take on the Faustian legend of selling one's soul to the devil was a hit with its young audience, who identified strongly with the story. |
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| But back to the Faustian pact, of sorts, negotiated between Palmer and Gore to retain Australia's renewable energy target and save the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. |
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| She was a truly Faustian archaeologist, not above sleeping with other researchers to find out what leads they were following. |
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| He would rather take his Fianna Fail party into opposition than enter such a Faustian pact, he insisted. Why did he feel obliged to protest so much? |
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| It was not one or the other. It was not a Faustian choice. |
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| The parallels between Wertheimer and the obsessive, Faustian composer in Faustus, and between the larger ideas about life and art that both Bernhard and Mann pursue, are readily apparent. |
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| The Scottish people have a right to know that the Conservatives and SNP are involved in an invisible Faustian pact. |
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| The heroine is a 17-year-old who's made her Faustian pact in a bid to avenge the kidnap and murder of her parents. |
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| A Faustian bargain is associated with pools. |
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| Wright plays an aging actress who makes a Faustian bargain. |
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| From such a Faustian composer, Wagner's own tribute is surprisingly dull and fairy music is best left to Mendelssohn. |
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| A Modern Mephistopheles, which was published pseudonymously in 1877 and republished in 1987, is a Gothic novel about a failed poet who makes a Faustian bargain with his tempter. |
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| True, there were giants, like Gus Levy and Sandy Weill, but they were far more determined by complex, dynamic conditions than they were self-determined Faustian shapers. |
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| For an author who, by his own admission, was not satisfied with modest sales, literary prizes, good reviews and the domesticities of marriage, this explosion of fame was the Faustian fulfilment of a dream. |
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| There is no Faustian bargain involved here. |
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| He soon finds himself being tempted by a Faustian bargain with the New York legal fraternity, and discovering that his new manager is not all he appears. |
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| Robert and Edward Skidelsky, English professors of political economy and moral philosophy, present a breath-taking analysis of capitalism as a Faustian bargain with the devil. |
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