hellscape
Example Sentences
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Contained within Alexander Dodge’s lush red set, Tresnjak’s production moves between the rococo grandeur of Emperor Joseph II’s court and a kind of interior hellscape, where Salieri, the play’s guide and scheming rival of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, can recall the mischief he wrought against the young upstart perversely blessed with a divine spark of genius.
From Los Angeles Times
You don’t want to end up like this lost soul, lugging his giant gambles through the hellscape of his own mind:
The car bumped and thumped over more debris in the road, and Akira’s eyes were drawn back to the hellscape outside her window.
From Literature
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The film offers nothing like an insight into social problems nor any solution to the hellscape in which these folks live.
You make your way through whatever you went through — the subway, the traffic, the hellscape that is Times Square — you finally get here, and then you hope that the entire experience will be as short as humanly possible.
From Los Angeles Times
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