1.   This was the American nightmare.

2.   But the rest was more like the American nightmare.

3.   Few object to special efforts to remedy past discrimination, but government favoritism toward the already advantaged is the American nightmare, not the American dream.

4.   Has the American dream turned into the American nightmare?

5.   It is an American nightmare.

6.   Just another American nightmare, this time hauntingly close to home.

7.   Not long afterward, Steve had full-blown AIDS and the Smith family was living the great American nightmare.

8.   So this is that murky STORY IN middle ground between the American dream and the American nightmare.

9.   That presidential dream may have become a modern American nightmare, caused by an excess of bile in the system.

10.   The other part says this American nightmare is too searing to the psyche to remain silent.