bedevilment

Good often comes from bad, and where to draw moral lines is an eternal bedevilment.

He then dismissed the bedevilment of Fitzgerald with an airy wave of the hand.

What a bedevilment of all our values, Cadfael, is this civil war!"

More important matters to them than the bedevilment of their neighbors engrossed their whole attention."

The fourth pair, however Well, both of them were high-spirited most times, and today, truly full of bedevilment.

The bedevilment is in the details.

You can ask that when-" She paused, noting the gleam of bedevilment in his eye.

It happened that incidentally I gave some facts about the bedevilment of the public's meat-supply, and the public really did care about that.

Scotland is the home of weird, uncanny creatures, who take lovely shapes for the bedevilment of poor weak souls.

Thunder and bedevilment!

And he gave a succinct account of their tantalizing bedevilment by sow- and snail-changed maidens.

Last Poems (1922) no. 12 And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's?

Singling out Herity as a special target, O'Donnell had seized on any opportunity for bedevilment.

Mr. Callen, a 54-year-old lawyer, is rounding out two decades of trying to rouse outrage against this city's endemic bedevilment by organized crime.

The accusation made was of poisoning, bedevilment of humans and animals, associating with other witches and dealings with the devil.

"The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth.

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in South Boston has had its share of both bedevilment and blessings.

She's played divinely by Ms. Reynolds, who shows off both acting expertise and apparent training at the International Mothers' School for Passive-Aggressive Bedevilment of Children.

'What we has here be a puzzlement and a problem, a bedevilment o' purpose and a contradiction o' temperament, what can be summed up and put together as a conundrum what is not easy to solve, my dears.'

It takes a good deal of neural retooling to restore his full alien-management skills, but once that is accomplished, M.I.B. begin to get somewhere against Serleena, who's sprouting serpents everywhere and inducing all sorts of alien bedevilment.

Driving back through the avenue of close - set trees, breathing the clean pine - scented air at dusk, Dermot let his mind run beyond the present bedevilment to a future when . . . An orchestra was playing at the Donjon Hotel.