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- noun A
hellish landscape .
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Some viewers I overheard saw the installation as a hellscape, an appropriate take considering that Osiris, like Orpheus, Herakles, Jesus, and numerous other world myths, must descend to hell before they enter paradise.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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ANTICIPATING LONGER-THAN-EXPECTED STAY IN IRAQ - Sure, our troops have withdrawn from Iraq's cities and Saddam Hussein is now passing his time in a flame-engulfed hellscape where the TV only plays "Burn Notice" reruns and the radio only plays the sound of Paula Dean screaming, but that doesn't mean we're getting out of that country any time soon.
HUFFPOST HILL - Much-Needed White Guy Enters 2012 GOP Primary Eliot Nelson 2011
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The story begins with hyperspeed edits of the aforementioned post-apocalyptic hellscape, each one reminiscent of I Am Legend or the nuclear bomb sequence from Terminator 2.
Bob Cesca: Rick Perry's Epic Lying Could Make Him the Next President Bob Cesca 2011
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The story begins with hyperspeed edits of the aforementioned post-apocalyptic hellscape, each one reminiscent of I Am Legend or the nuclear bomb sequence from Terminator 2.
Bob Cesca: Rick Perry's Epic Lying Could Make Him the Next President Bob Cesca 2011
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The story begins with hyperspeed edits of the aforementioned post-apocalyptic hellscape, each one reminiscent of I Am Legend or the nuclear bomb sequence from Terminator 2.
Bob Cesca: Rick Perry's Epic Lying Could Make Him the Next President Bob Cesca 2011
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The story begins with hyperspeed edits of the aforementioned post-apocalyptic hellscape, each one reminiscent of I Am Legend or the nuclear bomb sequence from Terminator 2.
Bob Cesca: Rick Perry's Epic Lying Could Make Him the Next President Bob Cesca 2011
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Some viewers I overheard saw the installation as a hellscape, an appropriate take considering that Osiris, like Orpheus, Herakles, Jesus, and numerous other world myths, must descend to hell before they enter paradise.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Some viewers I overheard saw the installation as a hellscape, an appropriate take considering that Osiris, like Orpheus, Herakles, Jesus, and numerous other world myths, must descend to hell before they enter paradise.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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* And Arizona is now, officially, a dystopian hellscape.
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The story begins with hyperspeed edits of the aforementioned post-apocalyptic hellscape, each one reminiscent of I Am Legend or the nuclear bomb sequence from Terminator 2.
Bob Cesca: Rick Perry's Epic Lying Could Make Him the Next President Bob Cesca 2011
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