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Recent Examples of MephistophelesBy the end of his playing career, The Guardian newspaper had given him another name: ‘The Irish Mephistopheles’.—Michael Cox, New York Times, 12 June 2025 But if Roy is Mephistopheles, Jon is a force of light.—Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025 Inspired by the demon Mephistopheles, Mephisto lords over a dimension in the underworld and is determined to acquire as many souls of the living as possible.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024 Adrian started out as a theology student, but the stakes of Mann’s novel are not, at heart, theological—Adrian has a maddening case of syphilis, and that is the secular portal through which Mephistopheles makes his entry.—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 The Kit Kat Club’s master of ceremonies is a kind of Mephistopheles, and also—if an actor really nails it—a sinister mirage of ambiguity.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024 In the Mephistopheles movement, Bernstein augments the infernal atmosphere by having the strings play sul ponticello—a ghastly slithering of the bow near the bridge.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Schmidt is said to be possessed by four entities that announce themselves as Beelzebub, betraying disciple Judas, Schmidt's abusive father Jacob and Mina (Jacob's lover and Schmidt's aunt).
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
The Zeros are sworn to Evil and to its incarnate commander, Beelzebub (Fabrice Luchini), who barks his orders from a Versailles-like castle in the sky above the village.
There may devils in these details Jenkins is a former Detroit City Council president and nonprofit CEO.
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M.L. Elrick,
Freep.com,
3 July 2025
In retrospect, both fans and Grenier himself have asserted that Nate may be the actual villain of The Devil Wears Prada, and not the titular devil herself.
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