nightmare world
Example Sentences
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Yet at a rehearsal in London last month, the day before Russia invaded Ukraine, the play’s nightmare world didn’t feel so far-fetched.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
And Alyx is optimistic about humanity, starting with its protagonist who’s matter-of-factly trying to save her nightmare world.
From The Verge • Mar. 24, 2020
No one captured a nightmare world based on falsehood better than George Orwell in his classic “1984,” a dystopian novel published in 1949.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2019
Let’s hope this nightmare world never becomes our reality!
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2018
As though with malicious intent, the snow swooped down again and the world became an unreal, nightmare world, wherein was nothing save shifting, blinding snowfloury and wind and bitter, numbing cold.
From Rowdy of the Cross L by Bower, B. M.
