The incident has been described as a "Kafkaesque nightmare," a "debacle," and "one of the worst cases of its kind."

It is not a Kafkaesque nightmare of paperwork.

To me, it was some Kafkaesque nightmare in which I was perpetually one step behind.

Indifferent guards, an over-crowded cell and an infected ulcer thrust Aaron into a Kafkaesque nightmare.

His defenders say his case is a Kafkaesque nightmare that shows just how badly the justice system can err, even with a life at stake.

We wanted to guide her through her first film experience - she had been modelling for several years - but Fonda found it a "Kafkaesque nightmare".

What does "Lost" signify, besides the pain of sibling rivalry and the Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy?

At the height of that regime's power, East German society lived out a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Like those earlier novels, it sends its hero off on a long, strange wild goose chase that turns into a sort of Kafkaesque nightmare.

Then, in the midst of grief, the Kafkaesque nightmare began.