| The Scherzo is conducted with a gracefully Mephistophelean menace, and here, the members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra show off their agility and precision. |
| In the opera he is led on by a succession of sinister characters, all played in Mephistophelean fashion by the same baritone. |
| His cleverly disguised off-cutters terrified batsmen, and a legend grew as cartoonists captured his Mephistophelean physiognomy and writers relished his deadly deeds. |
| In a flash there recurred to him every incident of those dramatic interviews with the mephistophelean doctor. |
| Max von Sydow gives a coolly Mephistophelean performance as Sam, the dapper, expatriate owner of a neon-lit gambling joint in the middle of a desert. |
| The bearded man stood ready, and exchanged a glance with his mephistophelean companion, who was behind the doctor now. |
