Sentence examples for a subdefinition of hell from inspiring English sources

* Beware of fussily decorated rooms with gaudy French furniture and orange moiré silk; they are a subdefinition of hell.

("The apartment, whose grand, boxy entertaining rooms overlooked Central Park, was fussily decorated with gaudy French furniture and 19th-century oil paintings of Paris street scenes where well-dressed ladies carrying parasols coped with small dogs. The orange moiré silk living room was, to my mind, a subdefinition of hell").

A kind of hell.

And then, tenants said, a sort of hell broke loose.

The detention center is a department of hell.

"At first it was a life of hell.

In 1630, another contemporary described the mines as "a living image of death, and a black shadow of hell" (Salinas y Cordoba 1957).

It's a tenth circle of hell.

"A special circle of hell.

Sharon voiced Jameson's feelings: " 'A rope out of Hell?

May the insults fly like a bat out of hell.