James Howard Kunstler

Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

American Author

Kate Moss

People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

English Model

Paul Dini

I think that when you've got a world in which it's plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.

American Writer

Edgar Wright

If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.

English Director

Judy Garland

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

American Actress

Alan Moore

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

British Writer

Paul G. Tremblay

Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere.

Rupert Friend

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

English Actor

Kelsey Grammer

There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.

American Actor

Julia Sweeney

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

American Comedian

Conveys strong negative feelings, usually more intense than just 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.

Negative Emotion

Often used to describe situations that are not literally from a nightmare but feel as bad.

Figurative Use

Amplifies the severity or intensity of a scenario beyond the ordinary.

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Indicates a task is extremely challenging, more than just 'difficult' or 'tricky'.

Challenge Intensity

Implies an emotional burden due to the complexity or unpleasantness of a situation.

Emotional Weight

Effectively conveys the distress felt in an overwhelming situation.

Descriptive Power

 Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing. Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world

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 places the body in a nightmarish state of wakefulness, forbidding it from entering the sanctuary of sleep. Within months or years, this progressively worsening condition leads to dementia and death.

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 waits the angle of the slope is just the right side of unstable put one foot wrong and it becomes a slippery slope to a nightmarish end

Nightmarish

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