If the nation wants to try to prevent the most nightmarish attacks, he said, it must focus on the most consequential threats.

Being a candidate in a marginal seat rates second only to being Boris Johnson's diary secretary as the most nightmarish job in politics.

But the most nightmarish part of my life had only just begun.

Nor is it osteomalacia, though if this wasn't the twentieth century I'd say it was the most nightmarish case of scurvy ever recorded.

In many ways, it is the same place but with different names: Devil's Island, the Gulag - any of history's most nightmarish penal colonies.

The researchers are finding that, with time and the right care, most children show a great capacity for emotional renewal after even the most nightmarish experiences.

Even President Clinton has fretted about one of the most nightmarish of modern scenarios - terrorists with the ultimate weapon.

At their most nightmarish, the ceramics look like those science fiction spaceship interiors that turn out to be the stomach of the thing chasing you.

That particular one had been the most nightmarish of them all.

In the franchise's most nightmarish season, the 1964 Phillies had a six-and-a-half-game lead with 12 to play and didn't win.