“Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism.”

“Effective diabolism shows the existence of Satan, so the corresponding presence of his greater adversary is at least strongly implied.”

“White relied on a diabolism like this to induce a fall in the sunny paradise of Australia.”

“Enoch Soames is a sub-Baudelaire diabolist who manages to travel forward in time to see if he is remembered in the future.”

“The cameras reveal him not as the mythic bat-biting diabolist of rock legend, but as a middle-aged man thrown into a state of confusion by the most mundane domestic arrangement.”

“I suggest a series of articles pointing out how dreary, how inhuman, how downright diabolist, is the very smell and atmosphere of some of these great houses.”