What's the difference between bloodcurdling and nightmarish?
Bloodcurdling
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Nightmarish
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(1) Nightmarish visions of suicide bombers and dead children, a rushed conversion to Catholicism, and a mental breakdown over the war on Iraq.
(2) The edits are stupid and sometimes nightmarish in themselves, while the obsessive fixation on something irrelevant is definitely part of the joke.
(3) She writes about the nightmarish scenarios surrounding geoengineering, or hacking the planet, by spraying seawater into the sky to create cloud cover, or simulating a volcanic eruption to fill the lower atmosphere with ash.
(4) The experience can be nightmarish at times.” He added that even those who had a challenging experience were “somehow psychologically refreshed” afterwards.
(5) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(6) On the road with the refugees: 'Finally I'm getting out of Hungary' Read more Germany made good on its promise over the weekend when smiling officials and volunteers greeted a few thousand refugees who arrived at Munich station after a nightmarish limbo in Hungary.
(7) The mayhem at the mosque was in many ways one of nightmarish deja-vu for many of those present.
(8) Would we be able to look our grandchildren in the eye in the years ahead and say that in nightmarish circumstances we made the right decisions?
(9) If he becomes president after the vote, postponed until the 28th of March, Buhari will face the unenviable task of inheriting a nightmarish security landscape.
(10) It is the most nightmarish problem of all in a city that is already in the grip of unimaginable horror: what to do about all the bodies?
(11) His experiences typically involve paralysis, difficulty breathing, strange proprioceptive hallucinations such as his body vibrating, and bizarre "hyper-real" visual hallucinations during which objects may metamorphose into nightmarish objects.
(12) The New York Times columnist Judith Warner, looking at photographs of pregnant surrogates lined up for medical exams, saw “industrial outsourcing pushed to a nightmarish extreme”.
(13) The most typical epileptic disturbances occurring during sleep (psychomotor paroxysms, crying, laughter, night fears, nightmarish dreams, psychosensory disorders) had some characteristics in common, namely changes in consciousness, appearance almost at the same time, stereotyry of the manifestations, attendant autonomic disorders, nocturnal enuresis followed by the development of the typical epileptic forms of attacks.
(14) The brutal bouts of the 1980s now seem more like nightmarish myth than history, but the wounds inflicted are obvious and still raw.
(15) Probing but always polite, he was determined to be as radical as possible, and was calm in taking the lead on the nightmarish capital building project and IT programme that threw up new stresses on an almost daily basis.
(16) Paul Ryan’s policies are so vague that he must bolster them by nightmarish counterpoint.
(17) Most notably, he's been playing James in positions other than his "natural" role as a small forward, creating nightmarish defensive matchups for other teams.
(18) Photograph: Photoshot Gaby Hoffmann Former child star of Sleepless In Seattle and Uncle Buck is back as Adam's nightmarish sister in season three of Girls .
(19) Its wandering protagonist, Yossarian, tries to deal with the trauma of war despite ever more murky and bizarre encounters with a nightmarish military-industrial complex.
(20) But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her little child in the checkout line - maybe she's not usually like this; maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of her husband who's dying of bone cancer, or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the Motor Vehicles Dept who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a nightmarish red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness.