The same anxiety that plagued our nights shrouded even discussions about sleep with well-meaning parents during the day.
As a naturally anxious person who finds stress easy to procure and difficult to manage, I am plagued by nights without end, days without rest.
But for a couple whose first collaboration was plagued by night sweats and feelings of imprisonment, she and Nyman have come a long way.
On "Tears in the Rain," the most epic-scale song here, the chorus sounds triumphant but is really a reveille of misery: "They all feel the same," he shouts, about the women who plague his nights.
If you are plagued by sleepless nights over work and frequently suffer from the Sunday blues, the following tips could help you on your way to a change of career.
Well, I guess it'll make the first five minutes interesting.' Meanwhile, festival organiser Michael Eavis revealed yesterday he has been plagued by sleepless nights amid fears that this year's event was set to make a £5m loss, with tens of thousands of tickets still not sold in the run-up to the festival.
A few years ago, I was like many other entrepreneurs -- plagued by sleepless nights that left me completely drained and defeated.
The soprano Jane Henschel made the murderous Clytemnestra almost sympathetic, singing with blustery vitality and grim determination — one moment bemoaning her tormented, dream-plagued nights, the next turning on Elektra with a defiantly cackling laugh.
To take another example, in his screenplay for The Signalman Andrew Davies adds scenes of the traveller's nightmare-plagued nights at an inn, and reinforces the ambiguity of the traveller-narrator by restructuring the ending and matching his facial features with those of the spectre.
Or maybe you have an 18-year-old of your own, in which case you will have woken, ashen, from a night plagued by terrors, a clan of hyenas – internationally recognised metaphor for the forces of marketisation – attacking your baby, while you are powerless to help because you're trying on shoes.
Unless you're plagued with serious night terrors, waking up is one of the hardest parts of the day.
