hellishness

It's not necessary to see her as a pure victim to appreciate the hellishness of her ordeal.

The hellishness came before and after.

And if it isn't either of those things, it's Lady Kethry's own brood wreaking some hellishness or other!

One young aide was in tears last week as she described the hellishness of the past seven months for those who believed in Mr. Clinton.

Fora moment of sheer hellishness.

It conjures a visionary hellishness.

'What hellishness is this?'

The new Typhoon shoulder pads from Schutt Sports are designed to ratchet down the week's hellishness, if only by a few iotas.

The circumstances under which the author wrote "Naked Lunch" have been slyly worked into this film's hallucinatory look at paranoia, addiction and the hellishness of the creative process.

And, in so far as he could direct, he varied not one jot from the details of that vividly conceived masterpiece of hellishness during the twenty years which followed.

She gave her son the name Hieronymus, after the 15th- and 16th-century painter whose view of the hellishness on earth becomes a metaphor for the way Harry perceives Los Angeles.

The fricassee came, and the first bite, together with dumpling and gravy, made me marvel at the hellishness of Mrs. Miller's disposition, to drive a man away from that.

With them went the priests of sacrifice, but now, as before, the rest of the men stood in sullen groups, watching what befell, but lifting no hand or voice to hinder its hellishness.

The hellishness resumed when "Andy, about to fold himself into the back of Joe's classic black AlfaRomeo roadster, discovered a three-inch, shiny-new scratch low on the left rear fender.

I don't have to tell you, Mr McKinnon, that there are those who are so sick of the mindlessness, the hellishness, of war that they will resort to any means to escape from it.

Luckily for Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the old woman charged by the state with minding everybody's business speaks some French, but this is a small mercy in a situation whose hellishness is amplified by the impossibility of escape.

Steinberg, like Ensor, was a connoisseur of modern hellishness and had a much sharper eye than Mr. Grooms for urban surfaces - not just the look but the erotically supercharged attitudes of cars, buildings and fashionable women.

He could think of no way in which two hundred-odd tired and pain-racked men on as many plodding horses and with only use-dulled broadswords for armament could effect any favorable outcome in the hellishness beneath the swirling opacity of the fog.

In this horrible time, when a paranoid and jingoistic Washington forbids photography even of the flag-draped coffins of the dead, this poetry will perhaps reawaken our country to the genuine hellishness of all warfare and, by God's providence, make for peace and justice.

People who did move to the suburbs had to obey an unwritten conversational rule that you had to justify it in stagy and fake terms, either by exaggerating the hellishness of the city for children or by pretending that the suburbs were really not that far away and had lots of great Korean groceries.

Gambotto-Burke "presents the hard facts, showing that during the past 45 years suicide rates worldwide have increased by 60 per cent ... [a] comfortingly honest account of the hellishness and black humour such events can bring ... Throughout the book, Gambotto asks: Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life?