Sasha could barely believe the nightmarish reality that was being revealed to him.

Or, better yet, a searing biopic all its own, underscoring the gap between the glossy image and the nightmarish reality.

The details tend to suggest a distance between Mr. Defreitas's dream and any nightmarish reality.

They comfort themselves with nonstop shtick - magic, pratfalls and ventriloquism; humor is their strategy for fighting off their nightmarish reality.

Murky, badly acted, silly and pointless, it nevertheless evokes a rather fascinating atmosphere of nightmarish reality.'

When these sagas are over, millions of white people who thought black people paranoid will have substantial insight into a nightmarish reality that whites barely glimpse but that black people live through day after day.

Even knowing how vile the Tleilaxu were, never before had he imagined such a nightmarish reality.

Set against the fine-grained portrait of Dorsey's Philadelphia is a hurried recital of the nightmarish realities of contemporary unemployment, domestic instability, illegitimacy, drug addiction, inadequate education and violence.

They brought Joyboy to their Red Queen and Joyboy's ability to twist a person's dreams and desires and make them a nightmarish reality connected with the Red Queen's madness.