Word: nightmarish
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...play Rochester as a man of ham, not of heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell (as a demoniac preacher-schoolmaster), and by some loud-pedaled cinemaginativeness, establishes a nightmarish chiaroscuro of pity and gloom which, if sustained, might have made Jane Eyre a great picture...
...hard fact is that the much simpler alcohol process ran into fewer production kinks than those which knotted up petroleum butadiene production, split as it is among 13 companies, tinkering with five different processes. What worked like a dream in the laboratory is turning out to have some nightmarish bursts in big-scale production. Best example: the Houdry Process, widely publicized a year and a half ago, has yet to get into satisfactory production in Sun Oil's plant at Toledo and the plant of Standard Oil of California at El Segundo, Calif...
...silent, invisible, termite undermining of affection and trust, the ghastly cost of the withholding of truth between man and wife, Victoria Grandolet makes its contribution to human understanding. The picture that emerges, stripped of its romantic setting, is too close to too many examples to be either exotic or nightmarish...
...curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass, and another. For ten nightmarish minutes the unequal struggle went on. The Gripen almost made land, crashed instead on rocks just off the coast...
...Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias (pinch-hitting for Humphrey Bogart, who was scared to involve himself in so unrefined an act) yowling and prancing through a frenzied, nightmarish parody of The Dreamer and the whole hierarchy of "dream" songs...