Sentences with phrase «more nightmarish»

As her works hint, the reality was often less dream and more nightmarish; though with some brilliant «tell the grandkids» type anecdotes: Tillman recalls pilfering beetroot and potatoes from fields, and scavenging for firewood on the beach.

Some of the more nightmarish creatures revealed by increased Insight can cause the player to fall into a Frenzy that, if maxed out, slowly drains away health.

One group recut the murder of King Duncan in Roman Polanski's The Tragedy of Macbeth to make it more nightmarish.

It's less scrubbed and disinfected and throbs with a more nightmarish excitement.

The film plays like a Tim Burton Travel Channel series... each stop more nightmarish than the previous.

Evocative of Danny DeVito's Penguin in Tim Burton's «Batman Returns» — but all the more nightmarish — the suit is less suit and more human - animal hybrid, allowing Long to extend his performance from hilarious to bizarre to bizarrely heartbreaking.

But the more time she spends in the magical world of this parallel universe, the more nightmarish it becomes.

For a star like Pitt, there could be no prospect more nightmarish than having his family not being treated as if they're special.

People don't picture him as a cog in our defensively organised team, it's more the nightmarish flashbacks of accomplished, counter-attacking teams breaking on us with numbers and space, and opposition by - passing him with ease.

But nothing proved more nightmarish than when Splash overheard the team manager — a tall, pale kid — wagering that the youngsters would beat the ancients by two lengths of the pool.

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I've had my own share of difficult days on the road, perhaps none more so than the first day of our 13 - month adventure with Tommy, which involved a nightmarish rental apartment and an insufficient supply of baby food.

Changing diaper is one real nightmarish chore, and what makes it all the more difficult is the annoying and fidgeting reactions of the baby.

As a medical geneticist, I have had the unenviable task of helplessly watching more than a dozen patients live out the nightmarish symptoms of SMA.

Heather Graham gets to do little more than smile sweetly and expose a breast in her brief scenes, but she could still argue that she gets better treatment than Rachael Harris, who plays Stu's girlfriend as a nightmarish, one - dimensional bitch, screeching at him relentlessly and turning away whenever he tries to kiss her.

The game is as hard as any Metroidvania game and it only gets worse the deeper down the rabbit hole you fall, and you'll know things are really bad, when you notice the change of music and how nightmarish your surroundings appear and nightmarish in this context means like something you would see in a nightmare and not that the game's graphics themselves look nightmarish, as they look more like a complete work of art.

There was no sign of individuality on Green's part because he felt more like an extension of Bay's nightmarish vision.

That realistic air contrasts with the flashes of crimson, which feel all the more graphic, exploding in nightmarish visions of blood - soaked waterfalls and bat - covered cliffs.

The riot that opens the picture is nightmarish and surreal, and it never gets more comfortable.

Age of Ultron more or less undid that, again making the Hulk a nightmarish burden for Banner - problematic because Mark Ruffalo's Banner is so easy to root for.

When Alonzo (Denzel Washington) takes Jake (Ethan Hawke) out on his Training Day the day looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional tour.

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.

The photos are ostensibly dreadful — nightmarish even — but as we learn more, the film becomes richer, more layered and textured.

It's too wide a span of films to cover, not to mention that modern film noir is practically incongruous with the more seedy, Hitchcockian elements intrinsic to the nightmarish erotic thrillers that dominated the years just prior to Fatal Instinct's release.

Never has climate and landscape — a nightmarish, claustrophobic vision of snowbound Copenhagen — been more central to the meaning of a novel than it is here.

Trying to determine what makes a dog itch, especially this time of year as leaves fall and seasons change, can be nightmarish and laborious... [Read more...]

If you have a long - haired cat, you probably have a lot of experience on this nightmarish process — more so if you have a carpeted floor.

But, despite its shortcomings, the wholly unique — and occasionally nightmarish — world of Planet Lennus stands in stark contrast to the multitude of JRPGs that settled for a more uniform fantasy setting.

On his missions Ian experiments with his new powers, quickly coming to realize their inherent danger: with each use, his sanity frays a little more, inviting the nightmarish attention of something beyond reality.

When he finally gets to school he's told by a friend of the attempted suicide of another student at the school, the first in a series of events that start to spiral into more bizarre territory after Younho falls asleep during his test and awakes in a nightmarish Silent Hill-esque version of his school.

If Devil Daggers offered desperate breathless survival against nightmarish odds, Swarmlake is something more calming and graceful, as you rocket - jump over the waves to outmaneuver and reposition before landing to collect your point shards and continue the dance of evasion.

The idea of late style wasn't applied to the visual arts until late that century, but it rapidly gained ground to the extent that most of us now take it for granted that the raw and the fragmentary are preferable to the classically polished, that Michelangelo's late, primal Slaves are more moving than the slick, early David, that Goya's nightmarish Black Paintings, created when he was in his seventies and isolated by deafness, are incomparably greater than his more finished early works.

Instead, it feels overcrowded, claustrophobic, and a bit nightmarish, even more than American paintings of urban life during the Great Depression.

... This brings up the nightmarish thought that if the chemical industry had developed organobromine compounds instead of the CFCs — or alternatively, if chlorine chemistry would have run more like that of bromine — then without any preparedness, we would have been faced with a catastrophic ozone hole everywhere and at all seasons during the 1970s, probably before the atmospheric chemists had developed the necessary knowledge to identify the problem and the appropriate techniques for the necessary critical measurements.

The nightmarish flash floods in southwestern Arkansas early Friday morning that swept away dozens of campers — with some 18 confirmed dead and many more still missing — resulted from a horrible confluence of a late - night burst of extreme rains over a region of steep - sided, isolated river valleys long popular with folks eager for a taste of nature.

Meanwhile, whereas the Maine legislature in 2008 passed the nightmarish expedited wind law, they more recently upped the speed limits on our roads such as I - 95, an action guaranteed to increase CO2 emissions.

``... the nightmarish thought that if the chemical industry had developed organobromine compounds instead of the CFCs — or alternatively, if chlorine chemistry would have run more like that of bromine — then without any preparedness, we would have been faced with a catastrophic ozone hole everywhere and at all seasons during the 1970s, probably before the atmospheric chemists had developed the necessary knowledge to identify the problem and the appropriate techniques for the necessary critical measurements.

It apologized to Aboriginal groups for the nightmarish, state - led practice of residential schools; it contributed $ 500,000 to the ICC to enable the OTP to investigate atrocities in Darfur; under the Liberal Government, Canada decided not to join the «Coalition of the Willing» in Iraq; Canadian forces played an effective and leading role in the intervention in Libya; and, more recently, Canada rightly withdrew from the UN World Terrorism, I mean Tourism, Office after it appointed Zimbabwe's tyrant, Robert Mugabe, as its head.