Word: nightmarish
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...curious neurosis afflicts the fifth floor, a misogyny born of nightmarish fear that some noon the staff will arrive to find a woman as editor. It is not due to any persistent interference by Mrs. Reid, who rarely meddles visibly in news matters, but to the feeling that she could interfere if she would. All Herald Tribune editorial men are far more acutely conscious of Mrs. Reid, although they may not see her for a full month, than they are of bald, likable, easy-going Ogden Mills Reid whose office is on their own floor. A contributing factor is that...
...place will be found for the late Aladar Kuncz's Black Monastery. The record of a five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt to forget...
...year President Cleveland first took office (1885), James Butler was head steward of Manhattan's Hotel Windsor and lived in Mrs. O'Connor's rooming house. He went to Washington to supervise the inaugural supper. The memory of that evening was so nightmarish that when, 24 years later, he was invited to attend President Taft's inaugural ball as a guest, he flatly refused. That year he was living on a 350-acre estate next to John D. Rockefeller near Tarrytown, N. Y. and was virtually the owner of a $15,000,000 grocery business...
Unless you were told, you would certainly never think Heinrich Mann was brother to Nobel Prize-winner Thomas. Their books are poles apart. Thomas's are quiet, philosophical, analytic; Heinrich's loud, nightmarish, operatic. The Little Town is like a garish and improbable opera played at top speed, with singers, chorus and brassy orchestra all blaring at once for dear life. The effect is sometimes uproarious, sometimes deafening, occasionally sinister...
...ought to be. Just two years after his arrival at the pinnacle of his career, the country had swung widely out from behind him. He had sat up until 11:25 on election night, watching the swing take place as the returns came in. Now, the morning after, the nightmarish news was not only confirmed but colored darker. Seat after seat of the Republican majorities in Congress were being swept away in what, accurately or not, was being called all over the country an Anti-Administration landslide. There had been bound to be some reaction from the Hoover landslide...