Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of hellscape.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hellscapes.

Examples

  • Only morons would ever want to live in their cultural anti-matter; these same morons are using outrageous quantities of energy to make the hellscapes livable.

    Matthew Yglesias » John McCain Repeats Vegas HSR Lie, Adds New Non-True Details 2009

  • Burtynsky's industrial hellscapes are simultaneously revolting and hypnotic.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • The only thing that saves this one from a one-pinhead rating: the wonderful hellscapes, particularly toward the movie's end.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • The only thing that saves this one from a one-pinhead rating: the wonderful hellscapes, particularly toward the movie's end.

    Deader is Better Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • By showing us, in a linked series of more than 50 huge photographs, everything from the hellscapes of the tar sands, to monster truck rallies, used-tire mountains and high-speed test cars, Burtynsky unveils a world in which the extraction of flammable materials from the Earth's core has a limitless number of repercussions.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed R.M. VAUGHAN 2011

  • Meanwhile, a new crop of Mumbai-bred pictures aims to attract international sci-fi fans with Hindi-flavored takes on aliens, robots and futuristic hellscapes:

    Wired Top Stories Hugh Hart 2011

  • But what kills me is the idea that Britain and Canada are the totalitarian hellscapes that they are today because of evil Usurpers.

    Firedoglake Thers 2010

  • Indeed, this is why countries from Norway to Japan to Canada that lack such measures have long ago degenerated into totalitarian hellscapes, the all-consuming power of their dictators interrupted by only the occasional anguished screams loud enough to be heard outside the gulag walls.

    The American Prospect Articles 2010

  • Indeed, this is why countries from Norway to Japan to Canada that lack such measures have long ago degenerated into totalitarian hellscapes, the all-consuming power of their dictators interrupted by only the occasional anguished screams loud enough to be heard outside the gulag walls.

    The American Prospect Articles 2010

  • Golan the Insatiable has killed millions and cut pitiless swathes through deathmare hellscapes too heinous and gruesome for your mortal brain to even comprehend, Mrs. Budnick!

    Something Awful Worm Miller 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.