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Mills is nightmarishly representative of the tired, failed politics that have made the Democratic party so unpopular, even as it’s the only viable alternative to the rising fascism of the GOP.

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Her nightmarish laugh, gravity-defying hairdo and ferocious temper were part of a carefully constructed character that ranks as a comic masterpiece.

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A Dodgers team that had given up five total runs in its previous five games, had suddenly yielded seven in one nightmarish inning.

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Painting a nightmarish vision of what he claimed life would be like under a Farage government, he sought to portray the Lib Dems as the guardians of British values of "tolerance, decency, and respect".

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As often happens in a storm, almost everyone on the summit that day scrambled for the cables at once, creating a nightmarish traffic jam.

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