Faustian

Adjective

Meaning

pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values

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a Faustian pact with the Devil Source: Internet

After having spent decades pretending to be a moderate, Biden formed a Faustian bargain with the far Left and adopted many of its radical positions. Source: Internet

Here, the demon Mephisto makes a Faustian bargain with Parker and Mary Jane, offering to save Parker's dying Aunt May if the couple will allow their marriage to have never existed, rewriting that portion of their pasts. Source: Internet

However, to a large extent progressives sacrificed the interests of blacks by way of a Faustian bargain that convinced southern legislators to pass New Deal legislation in exchange for not disrupting Jim Crow racial hierarchies. Source: Internet

In any event, Shakespearian tragedy and Faustian mystique became of one type in his mind. Source: Internet

Here's the chronology of that curious Faustian pact. Source: Internet

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