nightmare world
Example Sentences
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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
It was just the sheer familiarity of it: that it wasn't this expressionistic nightmare world but real grass and bricks ...
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2010
Facing a public-relations nightmare, world diamond companies agreed to buy rough stones only if they are certified by internationally recognized governments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2010
She felt as if she were moving in a terrible nightmare world, unsuspected, unrealised by her till then.
From What Timmy Did by Marie Belloc Lowndes