How To Use Nightmare In A Sentence
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Spin, the tracks were mostly inspired by surfing, except for the instrumental "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is an homage to Lady Gaga, and the title track, which is about "the world economic crisis.
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I believe that in a free market without a competition law your worst nightmares would come true, that everything would be monopolised or cartelised.
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Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.
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What is already a political embarrassment could turn into an economic nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am having this recurring nightmare that I will be stuck in traffic for so long that I will die and my body decompose beyond recognition before anyone notices.
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Pettin's men surged up the steps at them, weapons flashing in the guttery light; Del's screaming, shrill as an angry hawk's, stabbed through Joanna's panic like the senseless sounds of nightmare.
The Silicon Mage
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Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
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She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.
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For many multinationals, in fact, offshoring can be a public-relations nightmare at both ends of the pipeline.
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Some of the children became prone to violent outbursts, irritability, nightmares, and insomnia.
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In the oxygen-deprived nightmare that is Nordic skiing, it helps to be a freak of nature.
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Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare.
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What seemed like a flawless operation has become a nightmare for the commander and his staff.
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The scene in the basement is a flower-power nightmare version of the daytime variety shows on Japanese television.
Let’s Die Together
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The Shrimps recorded a 2-1 win over Fleet - and that wiped away the nightmare of last season's 6-0 drubbing at Stonebridge Road.
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He was every kid's worst nightmare for an uncle so feel sorry for Elissa - he was her uncle.
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One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression.
January 2010
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In a particular brand of beverage, any serious deviation from the target sugar content could result in loss of consumer acceptance, the ultimate nightmare of any marketing organization.
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It's as if the town has woken from a nightmare but is still dazed.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it was the recurring nightmare of Adam Gilchrist which extinguished those hopes.
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The 0.0 experiment has a description of the test firing, told in innominate nightmare's typical style.
Strangelove
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While Freestone had a good run on his first experience of the stage, they had a nightmare when a broken rotor arm cost them over two minutes.
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She has a recurring nightmare about being stuck in a lift.
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Finding a seemingly arbitrary number in the middle of a 40 line block of code is a maintenance nightmare.
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Between you and me, I think Elizabeth is a bit of a nightmare.
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A lifeboatman yesterday branded the would-be seadog, who earlier this month ran the vessel aground, a 'nightmare'.
The Sun
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The thing about Ricky is - I mean, I'm not just trying to slag him off - he's a nightmare to work with.
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‘It doesn’t show off your curves’ (just the ones that give him nightmares) and this one ‘Its the same colour as the bath mat’ - he LIKES the friggin bathmat.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
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Most doctors don't even touch a PC unless they have to and the vast array of different computers, terminals, servers, what-have-you throughout the service is a networker's nightmare.
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With a degree in psychology behind him, he now practises psychotherapy in Colorado with an inside track on dreams and nightmares.
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So yet again this coming bank holiday weekend is going to be a nightmare for a huge number of rail travellers.
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His childhood sounds like a nightmare of bigotry and parental disapproval.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was most overwhelmed and went to bed having nightmares about socked feet walking up and down my naked body shouting knit one purl one faster faster…
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Steve Lathan seemed unwilling to wake at all, almost as if he preferred his nightmare to everyday life.
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FEAR about nightmare neighbours is people's main worry when they move home, a study says.
The Sun
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Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
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Curly hair is a nightmare - it has a life of its own.
Times, Sunday Times
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She said the black-faced sheep of the moors will need shearing later this month and farmers face a logistical nightmare of how to shear and dip their livestock if they cannot move them off the moors.
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Nobody knows what's going on-it's a nightmare!
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If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
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It took months to sort out this nightmare and if a date of birth had been requested, it might not have happened.
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This has been an absolute nightmare for me and my family.
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They said late-night displays and a constant stream of excessive noise caused by the whirr of rides and screams from thrill-seekers had made their lives a ‘nightmare’.
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The paralypmics gave me nightmares, but only because athletics is so boring to sit through.
No wonder the kids have problems if the parents are like this
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In the back is a group of Welsh fusiliers, and here's me, a ragged scarecrow creature from the swamp, an image from a schlock nightmare.
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He was still a nightmare before a game because he became so focused.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is been an absolute nightmare watching the spiritless performances of the team.
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People involved in it think it's a nightmare, but I'm sure it will work itself out.
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His nightmare was based on once when his brakes nearly failed going along Clapham Common.
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Once again he saw himself, as if in a nightmare, watching impotently as the bizarre charabanc of facts and conjecture hurtled on its predestined course.
She Closed Her Eyes
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However, I believe nightmares are a gift of our subconscious to our conscious minds.
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Did anyone else have bad dreams and nightmares about airplane crashes?
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Viewed from outside the confines of that self-absorbed city, Muni is an expense and a nightmare that brings virtually no benefit.
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Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of that nightmare, He shared Hitler's obsession with an Aryan master race, Together they manufactured the genocide of the Final Solution.
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Oddly, my nightmares weren't about fugu, they were about Todai, an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant.
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In her highly controversial book, Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare?
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The nightmare shutdown scenario, still a few weeks away, would involve Congress failing to raise the national debt ceiling and possibly an unprecedented government debt default.
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It must have been 1967 when I first had the bejesus scared out of me by this tale - and then learned the strange attraction of re-exposing oneself to this waking nightmare.
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Re: and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare.
Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
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The ephialtes, or nightmare, is called by the common people witch-riding.
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Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day, but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend.
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Urban myths are the stuff of nightmares; the stories people tell to spook each other, such as the two lovers in a remote lane, at a time when an escaped mental patient is on the loose.
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For the government to wade into debates about new advertising restrictions could prove a nightmare – can you imagine civil servants sitting in judgment on an M&S knicker ad, or debating whether such-and-such an image of David Beckham was acceptable in Zoo magazine but not in Heat?
Bring back the F-word if you want to do more than worry about girls | Jackie Ashley
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The NY Times' Haggler column tackled the confounding process of buying mattresses recently, with the help of Consumer Reports, which stated plainly: "Shopping for a mattress can be a nightmare.
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Once you eventually reach the products the nightmare begins to fade.
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History was a realm of illusions, a dream or a nightmare from which the wise seek to awaken.
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For years, he has suffered the nightmares and the agonies that, by all rights, should be ours too.
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One witness who received an email saying his identity would be handed over said:'This is a nightmare.
The Sun
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With rampant racism throughout both the government and the military, McIlwain endured hate and abuse that most Americans couldn't conjure in a nightmare as he embarked on a personal journey of courage and determination, becoming one of the country's first black fighter pilots - one of the famed Tuskegee
Heroes or Villains?
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The battle turned into a public relations nightmare for the carrier, as the video of Carroll's song, "United Breaks Guitars, " was viewed more than 6.6 million times.
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An energetic display was capped with a goal on his debut to banish his injury nightmare from last season.
The Sun
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I don't dream a lot but when I do the dreams are often nightmares.
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It's like one of Martin Parr's photographic nightmares, a neon shanty town of amusement arcades, chip shops and crumbling holiday camps that look like gulags.
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Last week, by a vote of 5-2, a state senate committee took the first giant step toward a radical change of public education that will make our schools a nightmare for students, teachers, and administrators.
Randy Turner: The Smackdown of Those Spoiled Teachers
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Terry seemed to regard it with awe and wonder, Ellie thought it was desperate, morbid, the stuff of nightmares.
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It became a nightmare chant, and he gibbered it to those that passed him on the trail.
THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
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Jez Butterworth's new play (only his fourth) at the Almeida is a spooky tale of mid-life crisis and adultery in the suburbs, where the trees whisper strange messages, nightmares are rife and people think their neighbours are ghouls at the garden barbecues.
Undefined
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A predictable cut-price sale back to the City Ground ended a long nightmare.
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For if the U.S. and the world community remain to be calculative in its response, the current events will have a potential of becoming a nightmare, not only for the region but for the rest of the world as well.
Tihomir Kukolja: The dangers Of Dispensationalism In The Middle East
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My enthusiasm was gone; everything became a bore, a chore, a nightmare.
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Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare.
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Yuke Landing Force What a nightmare. Who are they aiming for?
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When by our continued posture in sleep, some uneasy sensations are produced, we either gradually awake by the exertion of volition, or the muscles connected by habit with such sensations alter the position of the body; but where the sleep is uncommonly profound, and those uneasy sensations great, the disease called the incubus, or nightmare, is produced.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare
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It would be a bureaucratic nightmare anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Psychologist Donald Norman told delegates about his recurring nightmare.
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Few suffer the agony of Johanna Young's parents and find that their worst nightmare has become a reality.
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Blackmore performs in a sartorial nightmare of clashing colours and incongruous items of clothing.
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This day can be turned into a nightmare for the clerical regime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slipping on a kick is a kicker's nightmare because once you slip there's nothing you can do.
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By virtue of its high profile, Magellan created a public relations nightmare for Fidelity.
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Not Possible IRL: The stuff of nightmares - Higashiosaka skip to main
The stuff of nightmares - Higashiosaka
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It's giving her nightmares of beehive tombs, the subway system as a mastaba, too tight a fit for her.
Texas
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A few hours later, after having been dragged out of the hotel at gunpoint, my worst nightmare had come true.
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The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
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Annika let silent tears fall and stain the blanket, as she fell into a nightmare filled sleep.
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In an editorial, the paper considers the fallout for India from what it calls the nightmare on Wall Street, and says things aren't too bleak, with an industrial growth rate of 7.1 per cent in July and the global price of oil falling below $95.
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Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock
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That car accident and that boy like white color, may call forth An's forever nightmare.
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And yesterday came confirmation that their worst nightmare had been realised.
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Filling in all those forms was a nightmare.
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Nightmares are vivid and terrifying nocturnal episodes in which the dreamer is abruptly awakened from sleep.
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Perhaps caucus members felt that increasing the future incidence of bastardry was a price worth paying in the effort to put the nightmare behind them.
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He termed the war a humanitarian nightmare.
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*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock
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George A. Romero's 1973 original was an underbudgeted thriller about a Pennsylvania town in the grip of a bloody nightmare: Biological weapons accidentally dumped in the water supply, turning the locals into lunatics.
'A Prophet': The Crime Epic Reborn
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Staff at Darwen's M65 services had to barricade themselves behind closed doors during a ‘nightmare’ evening of trouble.
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This was a nightmare end to a glorious career.
The Sun
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For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.
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Worst feature Landlords and substandard accommodation can be a nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, when a woman gives birth her worst nightmare would be to have her child kidnapped from her.
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Europe and America were emerging from the nightmare of financial insolvency, and praised international bodies as much as they failed to participate fully in them.
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If it goes ahead it will be the nightmare scenario .
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FOOTIE fans face a rail nightmare as they try to get to away games today.
The Sun
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Some superstitious fools suppose that they which die of the garget are ridden with the nightmare, and therefore they hang up stones which naturally have holes in them, and must be found unlooked for; as if such a stone were an apt cockshot for the devil to run through and solace himself withal, while the cattle go scot-free and are not molested by him!
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Nightmares and bed-wetting are also common childhood problems.
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Prazosin is an alpha-adrenergic blocking medication for lowering high blood pressure that is sometimes used to reduce nightmares in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Corrections & Amplifications
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But the last few years have been a nightmare, since the council re-routed the buses along our avenue.
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The writer evokes a nightmare vision of a future on a polluted planet.
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Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of an elite using high culture as a "punitive slap on the chops" for low youth has come true.
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It's also unsurprising that after the nightmare of the first world war, so many people around the world were inclined, in an era of modernism, to imagine peace in universalist terms.
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Many times she'd fallen asleep in her own mother's arms after having a nightmare or a stomachache.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 5: IN THE DREAMING
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She described the distribution of food and medical supplies as a logistical nightmare.
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Van Gogh also wrote movingly of the music he heard at the pastorale, and that when he went home after the play, ‘it was the first time I slept without a bad nightmare’.
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It was unreal. Like some crazy childhood nightmare.
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Those involved had to uncurl the "cigars" whose fragility was a conservator's nightmare.
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His heart pounded, and his body was convulsed with pain: a residue of the terror of his nightmare.
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My sister Jill was having nightmares about bugs and beasties and snakes on my behalf.
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When a disabled child dies some people think it is a merciful release but it was the beginning of a nightmare for us.
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Well, there's the S-1 prospectus followed by the Def-14a proxy statements, 10-Q quarterly reports, 10-K annual reports, 8-Ks, 4s, 3s, it's a nightmare for everyone ... except the lawyers.
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He told me that he hasn't had nightmares while creating Higashiosaka, but that his parents would tell him stories about Jigoku when he'd been bad as a child. o.
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He provided the speaking voice for main character Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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But he has avoided his own worst nightmare, which is that of missing life entirely.
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Many times she'd fallen asleep in her own mother's arms after having a nightmare or a stomachache.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 5: IN THE DREAMING
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Eric, I think what Lou is driving at, that if it were not related, it could be a nightmare situation involving so-called copycats, a copycat kind of killing.
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Nightmares assailed him regularly
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But his move turned into a nightmare as the country descended into a warzone.
The Sun
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In an attempt to rechannel my immediate discontentment with her tax returns, I will give her credit for supporting her husband in the face of the nightmare that is those cherished extremist evangelical preacher/Gods.
Cindy McCain releases 2006 tax returns
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the nightmare that unfolded in Iraq but still ...
Iraq Updates - Latest News
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Following the arrest of his father and brother, David Friedman purchased a video camera and began shooting scenes of the family nightmare.
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If you have PTSD, you may have vivid nightmares, flashbacks, and bad memories.
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A lethal turn of pace and fast footwork make him a nightmare for any defence.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's go, go, go from dawn to dusk, and getting your life in order can be a nightmare.
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I woke up this morning straight from a bad dream, a nightmare, if you will.
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These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare.
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India's collection of medium-pacers—a rising factor in the game as the growing volume of cricket played makes the life of the genuine paceman an injury-ridden nightmare—have executed a very simple plan brilliantly, plonking the ball on a certain line and length, varying their pace and wobbling it a bit in the air, and England have had no answer.
Both India, England Struggle on Foreign Soil
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Two days of public exposure: a security team's nightmare.
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The nightmare of Gujarat still haunts the secular psyche of this country, but we still have no definite proof about how the incident took place.
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He said that all farmers are going through a nightmare of falling incomes and deep uncertainty about their futures.
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Nothing in life is despair, a series of disaster will be can't withstand the sunshine nightmare, to be bumpy.Life is the dojo, alive is a kind of practice.
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Our beautiful beach getaway required no nightmare plane journey or ash disaster.
The Sun
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Everything slowly began to drift away but this time, instead of the nightmares the mysterious stranger that haunted my dreams greeted me.
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‘Goya's Nightmare’ is a disturbing stew of vocals, strings, and exotic instrumentation.
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Sounds like a nightmare to me, but when Kenny Ortega was removed from this, he said whichever studio is making this wanted something "edgier" than the straight-up feel-good musical he had in mind.
What makes this growna** man cry?
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I shouldn't have watched that movie - it'll give me nightmares.
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The masses have all sold out for a four bed detached house and a beamer on the drive, everybody ` s too frightened to say or do anything, for fear of losing the aforementioned lifestyle, and ending up on a sink estate, (thats whats Jeremy Kyle and Trish are there for, Your worst nightmare!)
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To Kaitlin, he looked like the root of all her nightmares.
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Also, we are able to utilise him straight away to prevent simple situations from developing into nightmares.
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Curly hair is a nightmare - it has a life of its own.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare.
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The sound of gunshots and bombs awakened the dreamers to the nightmare that was real life.
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But higher education proved to be no respite for the desperate teen, which he described as a "nightmare.
NYDN Rss
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The revalidation industry seems to have become a self-perpetuating bureaucratic nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frank Lampard struck four as Chelsea signalled their title intentions in spectacular style with a crushing 7-1 win over Aston Villa while Arsenal suffered an injury-time nightmare at St Andrew's.
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Not Swindon; the big freeze has been a nightmare.
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I can hardly believe I slept so well, no dreams, nightmares or visions to contemplate this morning.
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The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
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Also included is Nightmare Weekend, the 1986 classic about a mad scientist turning young ladies into killer zombie fiends.
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In my opinion solar power is the established energy providers worst nightmare because in a lot of circumstances most of us could unplug from the grid or drastically reduce our dependence on the grid.
Tesla Motors Zaps Another C.E.O. and Lays Off Staff - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Talk the nightmare through with your girlfriend, imagining what the screaming ghostly figure is saying.
The Sun
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I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about.
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He's about to turn the kids' homebound road trip into a living nightmare!
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Last year, the racing community trudged away from Churchill Downs, groggy from a nightmare.
Underdog Mine That Bird gives horse racing a lift
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It was simply asked that she account for her actions at a public inquiry and the situation turned into a nightmare.
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Back then we dubbed their claustrophobic, brooding sound "Nightmare Pop", and with good reason.
The Line Of Best Fit
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A family told today how their dream holiday on a cruise liner turned into a nightmare.
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Though his worst nightmare became harsh reality, something unexpectedly wonderful emerged from it.
The Sun
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a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
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Horsetails or equisetum can be your nightmare if you have recently laid tarmacadam.
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Afternoons are a nightmare for commuters standing in serpentine queues at the rear entrance of the City Railway Station.
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In stories which give travellers nightmares, intercity trips usually take much longer than the official estimate.
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can cause "flashbacks" which revive terrifying memories, recurring nightmares, "hypervigilance" -- jumpiness and irritability, feelings of panic and fear, social isolation and depression.
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I told him my tour was a bit of a nightmare, and that my finances have been seriously freaking me out lately.
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It seems to be the end of a long-standing nightmare for Aban Offshore Ltd as it finally exited its equity interest in joint venture -- Venture Drilling AS -- which has been in murky waters since mid-2008, when the only ship used for drilling called Deep Venture that it chartered from a Russian enterprise ran into litigation.
Aban Emerging From the Depths
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In the entrance hall of Finwood Lawn, his six-bedroom home near Warwick, 30 sparkling crystal decanters sit on glass shelves - a cleaner's nightmare.
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(Under the Constitution, direct taxes must be "apportioned", which essentially is an administrative nightmare to do on a consistent, ongoing basis.
WHY TAX MOLESTERS FEAR RON PAUL
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But the segregation of the lepers on Molokai is not the horrible nightmare that has been so often exploited by YELLOW writers.
Chapter 7
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A nightmare of wilt and mildew, of fungus and blackspot.
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This does not mean that genuine fascism has arrived as a real political force in America; but it does mean the groundwork is being created for just such a nightmare, by irresponsible politicians tapping into terrible forces beyond their ability to control.
Balloon Juice » 2005 » February
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He and his cloned cohorts kidnap children to steal their dreams, which turn into nightmares.
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I can tell you your worst nightmare: you go to bed one night as a competent secure in your technical competence, and you wake up the next morning as a technological dinosaur.
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It was a baneful day writhing with the horrors of which nightmares are made.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
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We have all encountered demanding, noncompliant, drug-seeking, angry, or needy patients in our clinical practice. These patients are sometimes referred to as a psychiatrist's worst nightmare.
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Living next to nightmare neighbours can turn your life upside down.
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In a further similarity to an ad break, my short bursts of sleep were filled with countless little dreams and nightmares, most of which I remember.
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Allied to the professional and vocational dreams are fatidic nightmares and menacing riddles.
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Birkin, a Londoner who has survived the Great War but is left with a stammer, a nervous twitch, and vivid nightmares, is given the summer job of uncovering a mediaeval wall-painting in the church of a small Yorkshire village.
