Example Sentences

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The weird sets he and everyone else walk through are an aesthetic a bonus, externalizing the nightmarishness of their excessive financial burden.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2021

Whether it was the nightmarishness of the show or simply the cumulative weight of all the years of work, the retrospective sapped Nauman, and he had difficulty returning to work.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018

Steven McRae, who successfully conveys the Creature’s pitiable longing for love and acceptance, is nonetheless too polished and virtuosic a dancer to evoke the necessary nightmarishness of Frankenstein’s alter ego.

From New York Times • May 9, 2016

That makes the nightmarishness a literary quality, but it also corresponds to the way things really are, to our inner experience that just won’t stay inner.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2014