Word: nightmarish
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This would be a nightmarish task, of course, and a very grave international precedent. However, at this stage of Europe's worst crisis in the whole decade, all we may be left with is a choice of nightmares...
...abnormal and nightmarish environment in which Ray has grown up, it is perhaps almost the logical thing to do to fall in love with one's younger sister, although Ray is aware of how the outside world sees this relationship: "The more I'm seeing this through someone else's eyes, the dirtier it seems." Ray and Jean's incestuous passion impairs them from having satisfactory long-term relationships outside the family. Jean avoids them altogether, living alone and restricting herself to one-night stands. Ray's relationship with Sally, his girlfriend of six years, is a fragile thing, falling...
...would itself be the worst sort of collaboration. From Starr's perspective, Ginsburg completely shredded Lewinsky's credibility without her saying a word; he implied that she had a foggy memory and a knack for fantasy, and had things in her past that might be unsavory. It was a nightmarish result: through May, Starr didn't trust her, and she didn't like him. When summoned to provide a handwriting sample in Los Angeles on May 28, she arrived at the local FBI office but refused to scratch out what they asked...
Planning a wedding can be a huge headache, so planning a wedding when the media want to be all over it and you've got a thing about control must be nightmarish. Yet from all reports, the BARBRA STREISAND-JAMES BROLIN nuptials seemed to be merry enough. The most anticipated vows since J.F.K. Jr. first clamped eyes on Carolyn Bessette took place in the formal living room of the humble home the bride maintains in Malibu. The media were kept at bay with a phalanx of security guards, tents and enormous speakers that first blasted rain-forest noises so they...
...Barber--on which her reputation now chiefly rests. Cave of the Heart (1946), one of her many modern recastings of ancient Greek myth, contains a horrific solo in which the hate-crazed Medea gobbles her own entrails--perhaps Graham's most sensational coup de theatre and one recalled with nightmarish clarity by all who saw her bring...