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But I gave it up, and crawled into my bunk instead, boots and hat on, all standing (it did not matter; everything was soaking wet, a heavy sea having burst the poop skylights the night before), to remain in a nightmarish state between waking and sleeping for a couple of hours of so-called rest.

It had become senseless, nightmarish. Anything irrational was possible.

Again for a time Mrs Verloc heard nothing but murmurs, whose mysteriousness was less nightmarish to her brain than the horrible suggestions of shaped words.

Its interest in his surroundings remained of a hazy and nightmarish kind for many days together.

"You know, Fyne," I said, "a man in jail seems to me such an incredible, cruel, nightmarish sort of thing that I can hardly believe in his existence.

Mr Duncan Smith has said that another year of Theresa May's Government would be nightmarish.

This renders a surrealistic feel to the whole scene, almost nightmarish. And aren't wars nightmarish?

The performance is a loose adaptation of acclaimed writer Franz Kafka's nightmarish masterpiece story of a young man who awakens one day in the body of a giant insect, shunned by his family and forced to come to terms with his hideous new existence.

Writer-director Lynne Ramsay conjures a nightmarish vision of exploitation and degradation behind closed doors that has us biting our nails down to the cuticles, seen through the eyes of a traumatised war veteran (Joaquin Phoenix, pictured), who is hired to rescue a teenage girl (Ekaterina Samsonov) from sex slavery.

For the last week, Nairobians have been treated to nightmarish weather that has resulted in more than 10 deaths, traffic gridlocks and the flooding of houses in some parts.

Bulkin's enormous imagination is on full display here: trippy, nightmarish, and unforgettable.

CUFFS BBC1, 8.00pm The team struggles to cope with a nightmarish Saturday night in Brighton, including a drugs death, a stake-out, and a dog high on cocaine.