How To Use Nightmarish In A Sentence

  • Two other actors (Robert Lalonde and Patricia Nolin) do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions.
  • The nightmarish process will not be altered by the expiration of a patent. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the one hand, a nightmarish reality; on the other, a deadly boring dream.
  • We are unambiguously in the overshot chicago airport limousine but openly it can be univocal that our new polish is nutrition enthrallingly nightmarish and heterogenous and at the ratty foolscap we are vibraphonist pejoratively it wharf footer to be as acarpellous and precooked as landward. Rational Review
  • At its most extreme, the practice leaves victims in the nightmarish situation of having their bank accounts overdrawn by many thousands of pounds without their knowledge.
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  • She described a nightmarish scene of dead bodies lying in the streets.
  • A radar image shows the crater of Eyjafjallajokull in southeast Iceland, which looks like the nightmarish face in the painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.
  • He mounts photomontages of nightmarish imagery, amusing and dangerous, on all kinds of rich and startling supports.
  • I like the smudgy quality of these movies - which is not to say that they're difficult to watch, but rather their worlds are shadow-hagged and nightmarish even by the light of day. 31 Screams: Fay Wray
  • It was only one game - one nightmarish, awful, humiliating, cringe-making, hide-behind-the-sofa, please-stop-now game.
  • In the gloom they were… terrifying: nightmarish shapes against the slivers of light seeping through the chinks in the shutters, overbearingly huge from my perspective.
  • She described a nightmarish scene of dead bodies lying in the streets.
  • But wait - the nightmarish descent into the blind refusal of personal responsibility continues apace.
  • In both cases, shortly after the birth of a child the patient had developed a nightmarish complication called disseminated intravascular coagulation. Chicago Reader
  • That weightiness suited Carsen's debut staging, in which proscenium arches receded nightmarishly into a distant horizon in Michael Levine's stage-within-a-multiplicity-of-stages set. A tale of two Italian opera cities
  • After a nightmarish afternoon when I became stuck fast while walking through mud, and tumbled forward into the thick of it, I now discover that wellies are dangerous.
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • It was a nightmarish world of pain, confusion, noise and fear.
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • Thank God this nightmarish hick is leaving public office and hopefully out of our lives for good. Palin takes aim at Obama over energy
  • Hilaire Belloc, J.K. Huysmans, G.K. Chesterton, and Evelyn Waugh (who quoted The Waste Land frequently) all made an initial reputation for nightmarish satire before retreating into a not always convincing nook of Catholicism. Letters to the Editor
  • Years ago, while trying to exorcise the demons of fundamentalist Christianity from my blood, I began studying my interlingual Hebrew-English OT and Greek-English NT and was very surprised to find that parsing out the simplest of verses was a nightmarishly difficult task. Discover Blogs
  • Not just nightmarishly echoey, but so as in specific subsection of certain band's music. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
  • It was a nightmarish experience that still haunts us, a hideous chapter in our history that refuses to be forgotten.
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • Roehler's direction, and Hagen Bogdanski's black-and-white cinematography depict the nightmarish, ruined landscape of Hanna's hopes.
  • Mr. North pushed forward with his pad on the line of the ball and paid the penalty, further illustration this of how the DRS helps finger-spinners; Mr. Doherty ' s nightmarish experience of Test cricket ended when he was castled by a straight ball, while Peter Siddle was bowled between bat and pad. Ruthless England Claims Victory
  • In Jackie Morse Kessler's gruesome but inventive 2011 take on a girl's struggle with self-injury, "Rage," teenage Missy's secret cutting turns nightmarish after she is the victim of a sadistic sexual prank. Darkness Too Visible
  • Once night falls and your enemies switch from the mundane to the nightmarish, the game becomes a dark feast for the senses.
  • The next several minutes were a nightmarish blur. Anti-Ice
  • To begin with, my metaphorical antennae were constantly twitching paranoically, and straining to catch those nightmarishly familiar giggles behind me. A Sport Of Bother
  • From Kate Gosselin's perspective, the afternoon of Fun 'n Campin' 'n Roughin' It With the Palins, Alaska-style, probably becomes a nightmarish affair of dampness and numbness and danger. ComPost: Sarah Palin is comparatively normal
  • I was dazed, I was confused, even more so than I had been in this whole nightmarish chase.
  • When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
  • The Schott Foundation's new report on young black men in public education comes to what they call a nightmarish conclusion: The American education system is systematically failing black males. A Bleak Picture For Young Black Male Students
  • With elections round the corner, the irritation is bound to touch nightmarish levels.
  • Strapped in their car seats, children make nightmarish passengers, wriggling, squirming and whining.
  • It was also, I learned, scrolling down, a hellhole manned by human ferrets, with overflowing toilets and mephitic smells that had tragically ruined the honeymoon of vox12populi and Iwantmyrum, who were now exacting revenge by describing their nightmarish experience on every message board they could find. You Don't Say?
  • Not only did this nightmarish thing provoke instant nausea, it blocked my entire view of the stage!
  • Thank God this nightmarish hick is leaving public office and hopefully she is going to be out of our lives for good. Palin takes aim at Obama over energy
  • Luckily due to the silky texture and reasonable staying power, there was no danger of such a nightmarish scenario.
  • The three sculptures on show have a macabre taint but, in each piece, the nightmarish quality resonates at a different pitch.
  • I remember the long, nightmarish evening that we spent in fortifying the building. Homage to Catalonia
  • She said that the agency “needs to be awakened from a deep and nightmarish sleep.” Jackson Promises to Put Science First at E.P.A. - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • His paranoid and nightmarish world became a gold mine for Freudians, existentialists, and absurdists.
  • Looking like a creature from the Alien movies, this nightmarish "longhead dreamer" anglerfish National Geographic News
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • If you like twisty, dark, bleak ruined forests and slightly nightmarish gardens and colors that vary between the saturated and the greyed-out (not to mention make-up that almost inevitably includes reddish smudges around the eyes) -- if you like Tim Burton's Mixture, in fact, you'll love it. Alice In Wonderland
  • Grappling with the nightmarish bureaucracy surrounding this and all such cases are what concerns the rest of the novel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Packed with dense texts combining facts about globalization and war with anagrams and doggerel, the book tours an allegorical carnival studded with nightmarish rides and sideshow freaks.
  • The story of the seven nightmarish days will be screened tonight at 7pm, with the second episode on January 15.
  • But a nightmarish shot at the 15th, where he blazed the ball into a water hazard, put the brakes on his charge and he stumbled home for nine-under.
  • A cloudy sky or an occasional shower can make the task of small farmers without drying and storage facilities a nightmarish experience.
  • The book opens with the gunslinger of the title pursuing the man in black across an endless desert, and continues in an oddly dreamlike (not to say nightmarish) fashion as we learn more of the gunslinger, the post apocalyptic world (that has 'moved on') and his quarry. Great American Novels
  • I kept nightmarishly detailed diaries all through my teens, those years that you REALLY do not want to remember in nightmarish detail. One Year Gone, part II: The Navel-Gazing Year
  • The acoustics in here have the nightmarishly echoey quality of some of the Beatles' more conceptual stuff. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
  • It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos.
  • Nightmarish winter weather turns New England's Mount Washington into the killer next door.
  • Please aliens come and pick me back home. .living on earth is friggin nightmarish in its surrealism. Think Progress » Palin: Palin-Bachmann 2012 ticket ‘sounds kind of cool.’
  • Alcohol use goes hand-in-hand with other nightmarish behaviors: rape, delinquency and the use of "real" drugs, including a new favorite in New Jersey -- synthetic pot known as K2, which is associated with seizures, blackouts, cardiac infarction and psychosis. Linda Flanagan: Why Adults Ignore Underage Drinking And Other Stories
  • A nightmarish trip by litter and wagon followed before aides succeeded in getting him to a medical aid station in the rear.
  • The Gulag was Soviet society reflected in a nightmarishly distorted mirror and it was only when the communist system ceased to function that the camps disappeared altogether.
  • It was the middle of the day, and the cloudless sky above took on a nightmarish shade of black.
  • He specialized in mesmeric, often nightmarish visions of scenes from Shakespeare, Milton and Norse mythology. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
  • Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, making the scene even more nightmarish.
  • The foxed corners and their yellowing hue recalled the nightmarish quality of those hours, his feverish lucubration, searching for their order, for their signification. At Swim, Two Boys
  • NELSON Piquet Jr, the driver at the centre of "Crashgate", has broken his silence over what he described as a nightmarish episode in his WN.com - Articles related to MTDC to hold tourism expo along with Singapore's CEMS
  • When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
  • Both sisters described a nightmarish existence inside the city where fighters controlled many areas, food and medicine were often in short supply, and the thumping concussions of US bombs had become a daily reality.
  • A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
  • It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur.
  • Huge bonfires on the far side of the battlefield threw a pall of black smoke over the whole nightmarish vista. TREASON KEEP
  • A prosecutor described in nightmarish detail Thursday the rape, mutilation and killing of a suburban housewife, allegedly at the hands of a worker who was supposed to be power-washing her deck. “They Only Come to Work” — A Refutation
  • Thus the nightmarish devilry of the Symphonie fantastique is purely to be imagined, not seen; so too are the will-o’-the-wisps and the inhabitants of pandemonium in La Damnation de Faust.
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • Undoubtedly, the author's unique use of newspapers, portraitures, plantation records and diaries, and traveler's accounts, allows readers to get a glimpse of slaves' own insights regarding their nightmarish circumstance.
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • I've driven in Paris, in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in Rome and in Athens, all of them reckoned to be nightmarish.
  • The result of these experiments will be a nightmarish world filled with two - headed monsters and other mutants.
  • Platonov, however, is hardly a conventionally realistic writer, since the nature of the post-Revolutionary world is that history has ended and reality has been upended, replaced by a heady brew of utopian anticipations and nightmarish premonitions. Deals
  • She is over it, she says, but she resents what the whole nightmarish time did to her parents.
  • Traffic swirls round this nightmarish gyratory system where five major streets meet, the road up to seven lanes wide.
  • Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
  • Roehler's direction, and Hagen Bogdanski's black-and-white cinematography depict the nightmarish, ruined landscape of Hanna's hopes.
  • His string sextet Verklärte Nacht Op 4 is imbued with the ultra passionate nightmarish intensity of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
  • The hyperreal detail and the increasingly nightmarish sense of surveillance are unnerving. Times, Sunday Times
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • Looking like a creature from the Alien movies, this nightmarish "longhead dreamer" anglerfish (Chaenophryne longiceps) was until recently an alien species to Greenland waters (map).
  • And again, I find myself in kinship with him, because in my focus on religious, philosophical, and spiritual horror, I'm walking an analogous line between the paradisiacal potentials of these things and the nightmarish ones. Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network
  • Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent. Archive 2009-10-01
  • He loved to talk to her about pornographic acts: sex with prepubescent girls and animals; nightmarish sadism; masochism; gynecocracy; enema torture. Kiss the Girls
  • A flat, nightmarish air of mid-afternoon seediness hung about the pub. THE EXECUTION
  • I mean it's a sort of a mythic, horrible, nightmarish kind of vision, isn't it?
  • The party began to take on an unreal, almost nightmarish quality.

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