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Brooker said he sees “Common People” as a companion piece to the second “Black Mirror” episode, “Fifteen Million Merits,” which he describes as a “nightmarish cartoon version of capitalism.”

Scott Cummings: Got off to a nightmarish start when failing to deal with restarts against the Western Force.

Hwang loudly calls out the flaw of democracy that allows the barest of majorities to subject all to nightmarish policies — even more nightmarish for those who voted against them.

A 9th century account describes the Lindisfarne massacre as nightmarish scenes of blood and trampling and terror, of “heathen men made lamentable havoc.”

Police said throughout the "nightmarish attack", the victim was kicked and continually forced to wipe up his own blood as his attackers laughed.