Word: nightmarish
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...understood that evening the strain of pessimism in Angell's thinking about the future of baseball. That strain culminates in a brilliant, nightmarish vision toward the end of Five Seasons...
...though. It's a very small incident but very peculiar. Last fall, one night about two o'clock in the morning, someone phoned in a bomb-threat to Eliot House. Every resident of the House piled out of his or her bed and into the courtyard, as those nightmarish klaxon-horns which double for fire-alarms resounded through the rooms. Everyone left, that is, except me. I became, that instant, the first non-drugged person in history to sleep through a bomb-threat, and those god-awful foghorns, one of which is in my own bedroom. What eventually woke...
Coach Loyal Park, whose bad dreams about last year's nightmarish season seem to be well behind him nowadays, said the Crimson "played one bad inning of baseball all weekend." Unfortunately, that inning was the home half of the fourth at Navy, when the Midshipmen got the four runs that proved instrumental in giving Harvard its second loss of the year...
...threat to mankind for thousands of years to come. There is also widespread worry that atomic weapons will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application of nuclear energy seems to be inseparable from the nightmarish images of the atomic bomb." Many people, especially the young, regard the nuclear reactor as a symbol of a "hopelessly technocratic, centralized, hierarchical society implacably destructive of natural resources and human values." As a consequence, says Strohl, the debate is degenerating into sterile confrontation between dogmatic opponents and intransigent defenders...
Notwithstanding the shortcomings of the acting, suggestiveness proliferates in the set and lighting. Plastic ferns and gaudy gold grapes appear hideous at first until they assume nightmarish vibrancy under the lights. Then again, it is appropriate to use flagrantly artificial plants for the garden of a supreme artificer. In addition, the tree which Beatriz calls her brother is made to resemble a stick figure of a man with his head at a tilt. Later, behind Beatriz drinking from the vial, the tree looms like a crucifix. The lighting (designed by James Meyer) creates an illusion of transparency as the Messenger...