Word: nightmarish
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...just for the fun of dreaming. He has said: "... I believe that most of us, once the opportunity is afforded, will discover within ourselves a variety of stimulating and pleasant things to do." He has listed dreaming as one of the worth-while occupations. To Henry Wallace, campaigning in nightmarish 1940 will not be one of the pleasant things...
Flatly to be rejected, because resting on nightmarish statistical procedure, is your claim to having discovered war sentiment...
...Reader Zinke not jump to nightmarish conclusions. TIME'S only statistical procedure was to read its mail and report the obvious fact, that there had been a sharp apparent change in reader opinion...
...nightmarish Paris last week two aged sisters quietly parted, perhaps forever. Unconcerned for her own safety, but anxious "to relieve my son of all unnecessary anxiety," spry, 84-year-old Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt had decided to cut short her European jaunt. Equally serene, her nonagenarian sister Mrs. Dora...
This story reverses that of the convict-the doctor, too, is trying to erect barriers against nature-and the sick, squalid, miserable sequence of events he goes through contrasts with the nightmarish but still exhilarating adventures of the convict. It does not come off: the doctor and his mistress are not credible characters, the prose is turgid and confusing. But not even careless writing can weaken the cumulative effect of Faulkner's imaginative fertility, the boldness and originality of his themes...