1.   He is known to have made some sort of Faustian pact with the devil.

2.   Her quest for privacy was seen as impossible, as if she had signed a Faustian pact.

3.   Intellectually scrappy and cleverly fragmented, this provocative show suggests that many European artists who fled the Third Reich forged Faustian pacts of one type or another.

4.   Suspicion of a Faustian pact grows each day.

5.   The game is a furnace that feeds on supple, young bodies that are leased to a team and a league in a brutal Faustian pact.

6.   The real Faustian pact however is surely between sections of the press and its readers who in their millions wanted to see every tear this woman shed.

7.   We have signed a Faustian pact, whose consequences will become apparent in the years to come.

8.   Screenwriters who win an Oscar have to enter an almost Faustian pact, a study suggests.