nightmarishness

It would be great if glee, or at least equanimity, could coexist and maybe even be symbiotic with cosmic nightmarishness.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

It would be great if glee, or at least equanimity, could coexist and maybe even be symbiotic with cosmic nightmarishness.

Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network 2010

Helen's horrible, protracted death recalls the shower murder of PSYCHO (1960), which also revolved around a mother (albeit as an instigator rather than a victim), but this scene has the edge over Hitchcock for the unchecked nightmarishness of a robotic, unfeeling child killing her own mother, laying open the very womb that had once nourished her and from which she had been brought into this world.

31 Screams: Marilyn Eastman Arbogast 2008

The peculiar prison night-silence, saturated with heavy vapors and nightmarishness.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

Saving Private Ryan, do their best to approximate the nightmarishness of war for a mass audience.

Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed 2009

The liberal vision has been revealed in all its sci-fi dystopia nightmarishness.

Right Wing News 2009

They are always striving to put childhood’s nightmarishness, penury, or despair behind them, taking hope from every new day.

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

They are always striving to put childhood’s nightmarishness, penury, or despair behind them, taking hope from every new day.

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

And is this sort of nightmarishness an anomaly in Oz, or a key component of Baum’s vision?

Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001