Example sentences for: satanic

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  • Then there's the added insult to untreated ER waiting-room injury of having to watch these Satanic sentimental TV spots for various HMOs, featuring grainy handheld pseudo-documentary sepia-tone footage of some hypothetical multi-ethnic customer base (elderly black grandmothers on rocking chairs with blankets draped over their knees and beaming Asian-American 6-year-olds on swing sets always seem to make an appearance) while muted piano music plays and some studio-musician faux-gospel vocalist breathily intones the company slogan/musical sound bite, informing us all "(Insert Name of HMO here) ...

  • That hair: He's clearly in a satanic cult.

  • Temple and Carrie are cartoon meanies who hate Scarpetta for no apparent reason; they're about as Dickensian as a satanic clown doll named Chuckie.

  • The other big story in Italy was the visit of President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to the West since 1979, which was soured by the coincidental, simultaneous presence in the country of Salman Rushdie, the British writer condemned to death 10 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini for allegedly blaspheming against the Muslim religion in his book The Satanic Verses . While Khatami was in Rome, Rushdie was in Turin receiving an honorary degree from the university there, to the embarrassment and anger of the Italian government, which had not been informed.

  • In a macabre way, one might take heart from the news that books could still be perceived to have such an impact; my own cynical view is that had it not been for the attention drawn to it by the fatwah, Satanic Verses would not have had much effect and would have been long forgotten by now.


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