Sentence examples for bad dream quality from inspiring English sources
When I first heard the song, it had a bad dream quality to it.
His semi-abstract "Last Civil War Veteran" (1961), with its faceless pink swipe of a figure lying between Union and Confederate flags, caught the bad-dream quality of violence in the civil rights era.
In the New York City of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the 16-year-old with the bad dreams is a "quality of life" criminal.
But the show also had, inevitably, that mechanical quality of a bad dream being enacted.
This approach arguably makes light of history and ideology, but Bertolucci's film has the compelling quality of a bad dream.
Benoît Delhomme's camerawork extracts every last drop of harsh flavour from the cracked landscape, and the movie itself has the quality of a bad dream.
Side Effects is bizarre and preposterous, in some ways, but with Mara's star wattage it has the compelling quality of a bad dream, anchored in what is recognisable reality.
As Vladimir Nabokov commented: "This grim speed in checking a remiss employee has all the qualities of a bad dream".
