[
US
/ˈkɑfkəˈɛsk/
]
ADJECTIVE
- relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings
How To Use Kafkaesque In A Sentence
- Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today. Car registration and state income tax liability
- the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations
- Yet he said, with a Kafkaesque sanctimoniousness, that he had promised his mother he would make it through to this trial so that he could tell the truth to the parents about their daughters' deaths.
- In later writings they modulate into fables, culminating in the brilliant Kafkaesque miniatures of With One Skin Less.
- Working there was like being trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare.
- Figure 25-2: This is how most users perceive error message dialog boxes. They see them as Kafkaesque interrogations with each successive choice leading to a yet blacker pit of retribution and regret.
- Second only to the inelegant word ‘Kafkaesque’, the term ‘Orwellian’ is the next most over-used adjective in the English language.
- Their names become adjectives: Dickensian, Shavian, Kafkaesque. The Nightmare Of Real Things
- A colony of ants on the move from one nest site to another exhibits the Kafkaesque underside of emergent control.
- Our quest however, soon became an odyssey into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, PDF scraping and broken links.