Word: nightmarish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...author's other novels are as impressive as this one is futile. The Painted Bird follows the frightful journey of a small boy as he stumbles through war-torn Poland searching for his parents, while Steps observes a refugee's nightmarish encounters with America. A reader trying to account for the disparity between those books and The Devil Tree is driven to the not entirely convincing conclusion that Kosinski, who is a Pole, has strayed too far from his artistic roots. -John Skow
...such bilidity on the part of a film-maker. His examination of The Clown's Evening is, however, sufficiently perceptive on all counts to make this weakness merely an organizational problem. Attaching defailed comment to extensive paraphrase. Simon gives a clear picture of Bergman's command, particularly of the nightmarish flashback done with heightened contrast and masterful manipulation of sound. Drawing somewhat on earlier analyses by British critics Peter Cowie and Robin Wood, he integrates his observations, obtaining a more complete picture of The Clown's Evening than has been seen before...
DELIVERANCE. A dazzling visual tour de force by John Boorman about four Georgia businessmen struggling to survive a nightmarish voyage into the backwoods...
...transducer, which converted the instrument's output into electronic signals. The signals were then mixed, balanced, amplified and blown out at the audience through loudspeakers. The effect was sometimes as intense and attention-riveting as listening to records through earphones; too often it was more a nightmarish stew of French horns sounding like tubas, trumpets like cornets, strings like wood saws. It did not help, of course, that Revenaugh had to surrender the conductor's usual command over tone and blending to the man at the sound console...
Olivier's personal diplomatic protection was an unusual but necessary gesture. In the wake of an abortive invasion by exiled Ugandan guerrillas two weeks ago, the country is a tinderbox of tension and fear. The journey to Entebbe Airport 20 miles outside the capital has become a nightmarish gauntlet for the departing Asians, who have been manhandled and robbed by soldiers manning five roadblocks along...