Sentence examples for nightmarish state from inspiring English sources

As things stand, though, Chandler has passed into what Rosenberg calls "Software time" - a nightmarish state where the distance to the original goal increases the more work is done.

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.

The nightmarish state of the public finances conjures the shade of Anthony Crosland from 1975: "The crisis that faces us is infinitely more serious than any of the crises we have faced over the past 20 years.

When he had penetrated the bushes, he saw there were about twenty men, and they were all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.

When he had penetrated the bushes, he saw that there were about twenty men, and they were all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.

While film-makers in Germany responded to the first world war by retreating into nightmarish interior states, Italian film-makers after the second world war went the other way, seeking to represent the "real Italy", which they felt had been overlooked in the Hollywood-influenced productions of the Fascist years (the so-called "White Telephone films").

They are all about the shadow world, dream states and nightmarish imaginings, the irrationality of love, and the depths of existential despair, all of which receive an airing during this sprawling gig.

But without any change, Israel will eventually face world opprobrium as a minority-rule state or its nightmarish dissolution into one larger Jewish-Palestinian state.

Adaptation of Arthur Koestler's nightmarish portrait of a totalitarian state.

Instead, in what for any petro-state is a nightmarish, upside-down version of that model, supply, not demand, is forging ahead, leaving the market flooded with fossil fuels.

In a recent offering, "Dakota," inspired by poet Ezra Pound's first two Cantos, Odysseus' journey to Hades is transmuted into a nightmarish, beer-soaked, fly-over-state road trip.