单词 | nightmarish |
释义 | nightmarish (naɪtmeərɪʃ ) adjective If you describe something as nightmarish, you mean that it is extremely frightening and unpleasant. She described a nightmarish scene of dead bodies lying in the streets. Synonyms: terrifying, frightening, disturbing, appalling Collocations: nightmarish scene It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard. Times, Sunday Times They are overseen by three men in the foreground who stand stiff and detached, seemingly numb to the nightmarish scene beneath them. The Times Literary Supplement The work presents a nightmarish scene with fantastic creatures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The top of the canvas vanishes with sunlight, emphasizing the nightmarish scene below. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its uneven flight, hitting and scratching against the walls, casting a growing shadow in the moonlight, creates a nightmarish scene for the observer lying in his bed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A profound examination of a nightmarish situation that never resorted to cliché or mawkishness. Times,Sunday Times My friend would have been horrified if he had understood that he was creating this nightmarish situation. Times, Sunday Times It drifts through a full reel of plot setting before doling out the shocks at regular intervals as the nightmarish situation moves ever more beyond the bounds of credible plotting. Times, Sunday Times When you mess with it, it can draw you into the most nightmarish situations, destroy your life. Globe and Mail It's a nightmarish vision of our future, if we allow technology to get out of hand. Times, Sunday Times But it also ends with a hallucinatory, nightmarish vision that transforms both protagonist and parody. Times, Sunday Times It was billed as the first feature-length animated documentary, but in fact it's a haunting, occasionally nightmarish vision that defies easy categorisation. Times, Sunday Times It was a nightmarish vision of what can happen when you let the stranger into your home. Times, Sunday Times The abstract poetry inspires a nightmarish vision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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