Word: nightmarish
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...Islamic militias. The "low-scale" war in southern Lebanon is not a war in which Israel wishes to be engaged. Israel has no territorial claims on Lebanon and, if Israel's own security could be guaranteed, would be happy to withdraw from the security zone. Lebanon has been a nightmarish quagmire for the Israeli military...
...each of them, the difficult part is writing a short personal statement which is sort of grueling and nightmarish," he said...
...coast of Long Island, New York, and 120 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. At that depth, the water temperature dropped to 50 degrees, and pressure crunched face masks painfully against foreheads and chins. Visibility was limited to a few feet, but the visions were nightmarish. Scattered shards of the doomed airliner sprouted myriad electric wires and cords waving medusa-like in the undersea currents. Some of the bodies, when discovered, swayed gently to the same tidal rhythms...
Then in a nightmarish few seconds, Proudfit lost the handle while dribbling up the court. Rinaldi jumped on the opportunity and layed in the tying two points...
Other works seem to threaten a powder-keg of tensions, hidden under a ominous veneer. Long Nguyen's "Soul Boat No. 7" -- the title itself a sardonic jab -- seethes with the Hades-like passage of a boat slowly assuming the shape and qualities of its passengers. The nightmarish metamorphosis, replete with shadily defined forms and oil gloops that seem to jump out at selected spots, continues to haunt the viewer with its fearsome evocation of adaptation and voyage gone awry...