1.   Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world.

2.   But Bassett confirmed, albeit half-jokingly, that part of that nightmare world has already arrived.

3.   If we imagined a nightmare world, it might be a place governed by illiterate teen-age boys.

4.   Indian strategists know about Muammar Khadafy and Saddam Hussein, and the nightmare world they represent.

5.   Sports Illustrated recently published an excellent article on the nightmare world of Strawberry and Gooden.

6.   The murder of a friend plunges him into a nightmare world of mad scientists, inexplicable conspiracies, ominous bureaucracies and cackling lunatics.

7.   These are vignettes from a nightmare world.

8.   They live in nightmare worlds of filth and hunger and violence and extreme pain.