Hanussen, who says he is of Danish aristocratic heritage, has bewitched the Nazi elite, using his alleged psychic powers and Mephistophelean charisma to predict the imminent rise and triumph of the Third Reich.
32.
His lanky body and Mephistophelean laugh led directors to type him as a villain, and though he became well known for those roles, he never made it to the front rank of Hollywood stars.
33.
Oh, sure, we can do a self-righteous dance blaming the excesses of a materialistic society on Mephistophelean inventors, but nobody is taking the plastic out of our pockets at The Sharper Image.
34.
While Nancy is still groggy and heavily bandaged, Marion makes a Mephistophelean deal with her : Marion will send Nancy to California and pay for a top plastic surgeon ( Luckinbill ) to restore her face.
35.
In " Ricky Jay : On the Stem, " a tribute to several centuries of hustlers, hucksters and grifters in Manhattan, Jay does indeed project an aura that could easily be called Mephistophelean.
36.
His appearance was refined to that of a pale, decadent middle-aged aristocrat with too much lipstick and a supposedly Mephistophelean hairdo, teased to resemble devil's horns, though it now suggests Dagwood Bumstead.
37.
Horrified at his mistake, he is reassured when Kaspar ( Peter Vallai ), a Mephistophelean senior officer on the police force, gives him some magic bullets, which he squanders in target practice until only one remains.
38.
Fischer-Dieskau gives Rodrigo's thunderstruck exclamation in a smothered, almost asthmatic voice but quickly recovers to suggest, with lofty solemnity and a trace of Mephistophelean insinuation, that Carlos take up the cause of oppressed Flanders.
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He favors dark, custom-made suits set off by elegant ties with matching handkerchiefs, though the effect is somewhat undone by a diamond ring on his right pinkie, a Mephistophelean goatee and a tough-kid swagger.
40.
Vawter captures the sour rat-a-tat whine of Cohn's public voice and his wised-up New York style with so much elan that despite his poisonous words, this Mephistophelean liar exudes a glint of charm.
