nightmarish

No doubt, our memories of history have been filled with too much discord, humiliation and nightmarish experiences.

S: I'm sorry. That must have really been a nightmarish day for you and your family.

For some, it raised a nightmarish question: What if my child had been taken forcibly from her parents?

China's love affair with cars seems increasingly to be turning its capital into a giant, nightmarish, gridlocked parking lot.

However, I looked down and saw a soft-edged metallic head inclining slightly and a nightmarish icon appear in two brightly illuminated eyes.

But in July, the site had a p. r. crisis when a host blogged about a nightmarish experience with a destructive, pilfering guest.

How could you possibly prove to yourself that you are not in the kind of nightmarish situation Descartes describes?

It was more to accommodate Sheva and Ballack and also due to those nightmarish series of injuries.

In the process he provides a timely reminder of how quickly a utopian vision can be transformed into a nightmarish reality.

The essential ingredient is a nightmarish sense of bewildered helplessness against a vast sinister, impersonal bureaucracy.

What happened was not a dream, "Waltz With Bashir" insists, it was real, and that was the most nightmarish thing of all.

Massachusetts, Bedbug, 1998 "In nightmarish proportions, a common bedbug appears poised for a blood meal, compliments of a human host. "

And compared to, for instance, the nightmarish experience of trying to get early Mozilla releases built, it's a walk in the park.

The air of secrecy is compounded when you try to approach workers involved in the nightmarish task of stabilising the nuclear plant.

It was a long, nightmarish climb, but at last they reached the main storeroom.

Europe is facing nightmarish problems in its east. With help from the West, meltdown can be avoided.

AM: It's true that there are nightmarish images from hell but this was part of the medieval mentality.

David Horsey gives such a young brute truly nightmarish proportions in today's cartoon: so large he barely fits in the room.

The loans that came on to banks' books via third-party brokers and others are more likely to have a nightmarish feel to them.

Disturbing, nightmarish ambiance with vocals ranging from delicate female singing to demonic male spoken word.

Like nightmarish bass players, assassin bugs pluck spider silk in webs, mimicking the movements of exhausted, stuck prey.

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually a pillar of gas and dust.

A new "Yugosphere" of common culture and trade links is eroding the nightmarish memories of war and ethnic cleansing (see article).

It is his unique originality that enriches the nightmarish overtones of the novels and gives them their poetic quality.

That experience still seems unbelievable, almost nightmarish.

'We tend to have more emotional or nightmarish dreams just before a period. '

Nightmarish winter weather turns New England's Mount Washington into the killer next door.

The income tax system we have today is a nightmarish combination of class warfare and corrupt loopholes.

Even so, there is something nightmarish about the Strauss-Kahn case, as Mr Vance describes it in his court filings.

They also illustrate the nightmarish difficulty reformers face.

We have seen first hand our friends and loved ones consumed by the nightmarish Zerg.

However, if you are managing a high performer with poor interpersonal skills, your job goes from challenging to nightmarish .

When the nightmarish upheaval finally ended they had to rebuild their lives from scratch.

It took George Stephanopoulos and other aides a nightmarish seven minutes to fix the problem while Mr. Clinton winged it.

WHAT person in his right mind would want to tackle Britain's nightmarish public finances?

The implications are nightmarish.

This nightmarish scenario could unfold next year.

What's the stiff body bitterly painful, and the nightmarish diffusion.

An oppressive or nightmarish burden.

In the nightmarish city center, what they saw at the school gate was heart-stopping: four unattended book bags.

that gives you an idea of the often nightmarish traffic drivers face around here

terrorized by all sorts of nightmarish creatures

By the time the 4 p. m. closing bell halted the rout, the index had dropped a nightmarish 190. 58 points,