Sentence examples for concrete nightmare from inspiring English sources

Why, because of the theatre, of course; more precisely because of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, that century-old dream turned into concrete nightmare.

The low-rise development that was to be such a benchmark for town planners throughout the 1950s, is in the midst of a concrete nightmare, peppered with tower blocks - some of which are earmarked for demolition.

Across town, in the Ringland shopping centre, a blasted concrete nightmare that makes John Frost Square look like the Champs-Élysées, four youths are playing pitch-and-toss with pound coins – much more Ringland's game than golf.

We'll never get that money back, and we'll be shackled to that poisonous concrete nightmare forever and a day, but maybe we can at least crucify somebody along to way to appease our temper.

The ability to generate every aspect of his pictures gave rise, between 2004 and 2006, to his "Scena" (Scene) series of amazing mountain landscapes bridged by gigantic dams, and the "Veduta" (View) sequence of nightmare concrete cities stretching away into infinity.

His advice was to prove priceless to Hall when, after taking over the NT from Laurence Olivier in 1973, Hall found the move from the Old Vic to Denys Lasdun's South Bank concrete complex faced a nightmare period of delays and obstacles.

To many, the nightmare already has concrete form: it is eastern Germany, a permanently depressed region yoked to too strong an exchange rate.Yet this is too gloomy not least about the prospects for eastern Germany.

Waiting for controversies like Infowars to become a full-fledged PR nightmare before taking concrete action will only increase calls for regulation.

For now it is only an ominous structure, its south side looking like a postapocalyptic nightmare spilling its concrete guts toward the bay.

In the 1930s, British travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor described the city as a "fascinating nightmare" of "ferro-concrete facades," and that description largely holds up today.

Most Americans, including most New Yorkers, think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, a wasteland of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams, but in comparison with the rest of America it's a model of environmental responsibility.