ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NIGHTMARE
(Meaning: incubus; C16: bad dream): from night + Old English mare, mære evil spirit, from Germanic; compare Old Norse mara incubus, Polish zmora, French cauchemar nightmare.
10 QUOTES WITH «NIGHTMARE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
nightmare.
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGHTMARE»
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nightmare in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nightmare and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
With the help of two new friends, Emily discovers that her nightmare is not just in her head. Someone at Camp Excel has a secret—and will do anything, even murder, to keep Emily from uncovering the truth. From the Hardcover edition.
The Nightmare Affair is the first in a gripping new urban fantasy trilogy by Mindee Arnett.
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Nightmare at the Book Fair
When fifth-grader Trip Kindleman, who does not like to read very much, is hit on the head by a heavy box and becomes a character in a series of different books--from a sports story to a science fiction novel to an adventure tale--his view ...
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Nightmare: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project
An analysis of the novels of Maturin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Lovecraft and Pelevin through the prism of their interest in investigating the nature of the nightmare reveals the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and ...
Dina Khapaeva, Rosie Tweddle, 2012
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The Air-conditioned
Nightmare
Presents the contemporary writer's vision of American life, gleaned from his travels throughout the country during the early 1940's
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Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the
Nightmare King
Nicholas St. North, a daredevil swordsman seeking treasure in the fiercely guarded village of Santoff Claussen finds, instead, the great wizard Ombric Shalazar and a battle against the Nightmare King and his evil Fearlings--a battle ...
With shades of an erotic Jack the Ripper, Nightmare is the story of an African physician, set against the backdrop of race relations in the UK in the '50s.
Marcus Van Heller, John Stevenson, 2005
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Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema
Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror.
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Gringo
Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in ...
A story that made national and international headlines, this is the first and only book to tell Eric’s absorbing, moving account in his own words.
In a clinic for women suffering from multiple personality disorders, one by one the patients turn up hideously mutilated, the victims of their own alternate personas. Original.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIGHTMARE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
nightmare is used in the context of the following news items.
GOP's nightmare: An Independent Donald Trump
That's a potential nightmare scenario for the GOP establishment: a populist outsider with unlimited resources attacking their nominee from the ... «CNN, Jul 15»
Apple Music "is a nightmare"
…adding music to my library is nothing short of a mind-blowing exercise in frustration. I started to notice that whenever I added an album to my ... «Boing Boing, Jul 15»
A Nightmare on Elm Street toaster? The worst movie merchandise
Misjudged movie tie-ins tend to fall into three categories. There is the blatantly shoddy, where a logo or title is attached to a product ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
The looming economic nightmare for the tri-state area
If there's a lesson to draw from the financial disasters in Greece, Puerto Rico and Chicago, it's this: When governments take on too much debt ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
Eminent domain turns dream into nightmare
(Philadelphia Inquirer) The white teddy bear was left behind by a previous occupant in the rowhouse that Glenn Mancini started to renovate last ... «WND.com, Jul 15»
SlapTV's Brush Your Teeth Is a Complete Dental Nightmare
The premise is simple: Tweet your most horrifying nightmare, and they'll consider transforming it into a full-blown horror short. Since a lot of ... «Dread Central, Jul 15»
Our Nightmare Is Over: Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip Frosting Is Back …
If you're a food company and there's a Facebook group where more than 16,000 people ask you to bring back a discontinued product, you ... «The Consumerist, Jul 15»
Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess review – evil is good
One of Japan's oddest franchises comes to the PlayStation 4, and tries to prove that playing the bad guy (or gal) is always more fun. There are ... «Metro, Jul 15»
Watch David Lynch's Three-Minute Nightmare 'The Alphabet'
If Sesame Street took a quick detour through Hell, the result might look like David Lynch's 1968 short film The Alphabet. The surreal ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
Asmir Begovic suffers nightmare Chelsea debut - but was he to …
The true cost of selling Petr Cech may have been hinted at last night with Thibaut Courtois' new understudy conceding four goals on his ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
