Example Sentences

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It’s a scene of bureaucratic hellishness about poverty’s wretched cycle of hopelessness that wouldn’t be out of place in a chilly Romanian satire.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022

“All Lawrence’s novels are about the hellishness of home,” Wilson writes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

Critics relish imbuing his lyrics with literary significance—the BBC once compared “Tilt” to “Finnegans Wake”—but I like to think that Walker was just making a series of increasingly absurd jokes about the hellishness of existence.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

The movie put a frame around the hellishness of what millions of Americans in bland, blocky suburban office parks experience every day, clarifying just how soul-deadening their lives had become.

From The Verge • Jun. 26, 2017

"Young man, don't you feel the hellishness of the thought?"

From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Hocking, Joseph