He was an avid reader of the Gothic and enjoyed the works of Mephistophelian character, and in the descriptions of Nastasia Filippovna in " The Idiot " and Katerina Ivanovna in " The Brothers Karamazov ".
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"I apologize for removing Gustavo from the tournament, " intones a kid from Jersey with a Mephistophelian patch of beard on his chin and a devilish smile on his face that says he's lying though his gleaming teeth.
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These feelings come to a head when Toni drops in from a Stateside sojourn, and seems to go on a Mephistophelian campaign to show Chris exactly what he's been missing in the way of personal freedom, creative expression and sexual promiscuity.
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The play culminates with the poker game played between the five men, ostensibly a harmless game of cards, it is in fact a game for Sharky s soul as Lockhart reveals himself, in a series of private disclosures to Sharky, to be a Mephistophelian entity.
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Before long the naive musicians ( now spelling " Wonders " correctly ) find themselves with a recording contract, a Mephistophelian manager named Mr . White ( Hanks ) and a tour of state fairs where they encounter hordes of screaming fans as their record climbs the charts.
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Mephistophelian " ] ] Media attention followed the subsequent Satanic wedding ceremony of journalist John Raymond to New York City socialite Judith Case on February 1, 1967 . " The Los Angeles Times " and " San Francisco Chronicle " were among the newspapers that printed articles dubbing him " The Black Pope ".
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And Sutherland, who is all glinting eyes and evil facetious smiles, does his familiar Mephistophelian shtick with customary panache, battling a screenplay that forces him to deal out yards of stumbling exposition . ( Ben Kingsley is largely wasted in the role of Amos, the Mossad agent who first intimidates Annibal and then becomes one of his bosses .)
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Howard has a couple of ex-roommates : Jamie ( screenwriter Mullin ), a Mephistophelian weirdo famous for his cryptic / / anarchistic oratory at the campus'open-air political forum, and Malcolm ( Mark Douglas ), a pledge at an African-American fraternity where the training seems geared to preparing the members for a race war.
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In " Moby Dick, " it was the White Whale; in " Memoir, " it is what the narrator sees as the Mephistophelian evil of coffee, " a filthy corruption brewed from a bean that poisons its own tree, " a substance that " turns your inner self into a happy sparkling clockwork, hypnotizes you with artificial joy, and takes from you the sadness and deliberation that are the anchors of love . " ( Helprin is reported not to drink caffeinated beverages .)
