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He shepherds his wards through the landscape of their degradation, helping to set rules for coexistence—how to share scarce food, for instance, and their hellishly tight space—and teaching them to rise above their humiliation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Nicolas Cage plays the hellishly demanding boss, in a movie that spoofs the way co-dependent relationships can drag on through a lifetime, becoming all-consuming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023

If I was allowed to sum it up in my own words - I'd say it's been a hellishly difficult week.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2023

It was collected from the gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b, which orbits hellishly close to a star 1,150 light-years from Earth.

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2022

How had he gotten there so hellishly fast?

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia