Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur. |
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It's a nightmarish experience that drives the teetotalling Higgins to drink and to a short breakdown. |
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Traffic swirls round this nightmarish gyratory system where five major streets meet, the road up to seven lanes wide. |
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The porcupine fish uses a nightmarish disguise and swells with water, which frightens enemies as large as tiger sharks. |
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In the years to come we may well see far more nightmarish things in our military arsenal than bunker-busters and daisy-cutters. |
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I was dazed, I was confused, even more so than I had been in this whole nightmarish chase. |
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A nightmarish trip by litter and wagon followed before aides succeeded in getting him to a medical aid station in the rear. |
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Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, making the scene even more nightmarish. |
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With elections round the corner, the irritation is bound to touch nightmarish levels. |
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Their Bildungsromane do not conclude with a state of epiphany, but, like their lives, are choppy, episodic, and nightmarish. |
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Two other actors do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions. |
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She is over it, she says, but she resents what the whole nightmarish time did to her parents. |
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His paranoid and nightmarish world became a gold mine for Freudians, existentialists, and absurdists. |
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I've driven in Paris, in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in Rome and in Athens, all of them reckoned to be nightmarish. |
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In a spectacular finale to a week of already nightmarish aspect, my last remaining grandparent has just decided to shuffle off this mortal coil. |
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Luckily due to the silky texture and reasonable staying power, there was no danger of such a nightmarish scenario. |
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The three sculptures on show have a macabre taint but, in each piece, the nightmarish quality resonates at a different pitch. |
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He mounts photomontages of nightmarish imagery, amusing and dangerous, on all kinds of rich and startling supports. |
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I mean it's a sort of a mythic, horrible, nightmarish kind of vision, isn't it? |
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Once night falls and your enemies switch from the mundane to the nightmarish, the game becomes a dark feast for the senses. |
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Not only did this nightmarish thing provoke instant nausea, it blocked my entire view of the stage! |
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It was the middle of the day, and the cloudless sky above took on a nightmarish shade of black. |
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Strapped in their car seats, children make nightmarish passengers, wriggling, squirming and whining. |
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It was a nightmarish experience that still haunts us, a hideous chapter in our history that refuses to be forgotten. |
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A cloudy sky or an occasional shower can make the task of small farmers without drying and storage facilities a nightmarish experience. |
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When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip. |
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Squeezed into a suffocating cattle car for three nightmarish days, I nursed Sandor and also the baby of a friend whose milk had dried up. |
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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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Rather than use metaphors that point toward nightmare, we would do better to turn our gaze to nightmarish reality itself. |
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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. |
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Most Republican senators don't share this nightmarish vision of their country, thank goodness. |
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Maybe something of the violence and nightmarish quality of the early short stories had to do with that. |
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Better still, they can do it for one-fifth the cost and avoid the nightmarish process of nuclear licensing and permitting. |
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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. |
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It was a nightmarish world of pain, confusion, noise and fear. |
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This time, the nightmarish anxiety alone was beyond description. |
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Big and bad, like those nightmarish, saw-toothed meanies that lurk beneath the bed. |
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At the very least, Zweig's nocturnal wanderings surely account for the nightmarish atmosphere of furtiveness that underlies much of his work. |
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Since the mid-1950s, for instance, the city of Phoenix, Arizona has grown from 17 to well over 400 square miles, and its traffic tie-ups are nightmarish. |
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A moving documentary of intense imagery and suspenseful stories that illuminates the refugees' nightmarish situation. |
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Either way, you should probably brace yourself for something genuinely nightmarish. |
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Therefore, if the system were as nightmarish as some of our colleagues say, I fail to see how we could have achieved such a stunning success. |
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If Europe were to present itself thus to the world, it would be a nightmarish sight. |
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The artist divests the doors of their function by transforming them into an obstacle that appears like a nightmarish labyrinth of closed entries. |
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Tumultuous, stormy and menacing, one can feel the squalls being whipped into a tempest of almost nightmarish proportions. |
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It has been three long, nightmarish weeks for those who survived the waves yet lost so much and so many. |
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Most of all, he must overcome his fears and survive this nightmarish world where demonic beings exist and from where no one has ever returned. |
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With that many commuting and traveling everyday the traffic is chaotic and nightmarish for most. |
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To make this process less nightmarish, we put RFID tags on every pallet and RFID readers on every forklift. |
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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. |
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Eurojust and the future European public prosecutor are the finishing touches to a suffocatingly centralised, unaccountable, nightmarish structure for each and every citizen and, more importantly, for the grass-roots movement. |
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No property chain You are free of the nightmarish property chain and all that gazumping and gazundering. |
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It's the bit where she picking on herself as she picks and picks and picks at a rather nightmarish hangnail. |
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Blame the heat itself, whose knack at frustrating New Yorkers these past weeks has now extended to blotting out the only upbeat superlative of a superlatively nightmarish month. |
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By getting into two luxurious hotels, they were making sure that they could face British and American nationals, who appeared to have been prime targets, and they were putting the security forces in a nightmarish situation. |
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Set in a nightmarish Miami in the garish nineteen-eighties, the film follows a sweet little boy who has a boom box made of cardboard and a tabloid virago of a mother. |
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The kids in Brooklyn hear about Africa and dream of elephants and giraffes but the letter from their pen pals in Sierra Leone told them of nightmarish tragedy and loss. |
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In short, the country has been transformed into an open-air prison where all fundamental rights and freedoms are completely muzzled by nightmarish, Kafkaesque, pervasive and abusive practices. |
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That nightmarish sweaty-palmed humiliation is nothing compared with trying stand-up comedy for the first time. |
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That is true in Scotland generally: for all Mr Salmond's canny bolshiness, popular support for independence has not risen in line with his party's popularity. Meanwhile the timing seems nightmarish for Gordon Brown. |
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A character slips on his pullover which suddenly stretches itself endlessly, developing all its potential plasticity, changing into a second character, both friendly and nightmarish. |
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But the various reasons offered by the British and American governments as to why the nightmarish arsenals that they conjured up have so far failed to materialise are unpersuasive. |
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A more nightmarish scene cannot be imagined. |
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Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year. |
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The werecrocodile laughed at him, the feral grin of a predator displaying nightmarish fangs. |
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Or maybe if Ferrara wanted to do Zoolander 3. Exasperating though this film can be, Refn shows real visual style and a willingness to protract wordless scenes into a nightmarish state beyond narrative. |
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Following the nightmarish adventures in hipsterland of a young woman named Dorian, it takes viewers on a delirious bad trip from innocence to experience. |
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He saw distorted, dancing shapes in a nightmarish swevening. |
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