Howard Jacobson

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to find. Jane Austen was made of strong stuff. She was too satiric for D. H. Lawrence's taste and too unforgiving for Kingsley Amis's, but you would still not call her hellish.

British Novelist

Tamzin Outhwaite

The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.

English Actress

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

It's something powerful to receive all this love. In the street. In Congo, everywhere. But it's also hellish at the same time. When all that comes at you from one day to the next, it's really destabilizing.

French Athlete

Maya Angelou

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.

American Poet

Elio Di Rupo

Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

Kurt Elling

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

American Musician

Raoul Vaneigem

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Belgian Philosopher

Mandy Patinkin

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

American Actor

Nicholas Breton

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

English Poet

David Sheff

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.

American Author

Used to describe something extremely bad or difficult, emphasizing the negative aspect.

Negative Intensity

Communicates a strong feeling of frustration or distress associated with an experience.

Emotional Stress

Common in casual conversation rather than formal or professional dialogue.

Informal Speech

Highlights the speaker's strong dissatisfaction with a situation or event.

Extreme Displeasure

Suggests that the conditions were harsh to an extreme degree.

Intensity of Situation

Can evoke vivid images of pain, suffering, or a nightmarish quality.

Graphic Imagery

Often used metaphorically, not to describe literal hell, but to express severity or hardship.

Metaphorical Use

Adds emotional weight to a statement, often hinting at personal struggle or agony.

Emotionally Charged

 so that we can better identify a true life signal. And this is what makes the preliminary detection on Venus of phosphine, a potential biosignature gas, so compelling but also so confusing. Venus is not where we expected to find life. It is a hellish world,

Sarah Rugheimer: The...

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 they were taking from the moor a week ago they can be very very nervous of humans and whatever time we've heard of humans so far has probably been pretty hellish boy let's kind of go

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