| The conversation had a Kafkaesque quality to it, which is to say, it smacked of police-state mentality and measures. |
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| There, amid a Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal, his medical skills became indispensable to the prison authorities. |
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| To an outsider trying to decipher the roots of such conflicts, the situation is, well, Kafkaesque. |
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| In her testimony, she described her brother's four-year-long ordeal as Kafkaesque. |
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| In later writings they modulate into fables, culminating in the brilliant Kafkaesque miniatures of With One Skin Less. |
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| It is easy to see why this idea appealed to Hitchcock, a man obsessed with the Kafkaesque idea of being falsely accused of a crime. |
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| It did not, however, find itself in a position to reject the most scandalously Kafkaesque amendments. |
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| With double talk reigning, reality starts to look like a Kafkaesque labyrinth and it applies at all levels of society. |
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| It is almost Kafkaesque that the junta did let a referendum designed to strengthen its own position go ahead a week and a half ago. |
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| Political pressure, economic resources and the ability to navigate into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy play a determinant role. |
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| He emerges from the horrors with a Kafkaesque account of life in the Chinese jails. |
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| Virtually all were innocent, yet they found themselves in a Kafkaesque legal purgatory of secret evidence and charges that could never be challenged. |
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| Thus begins Symmetry, a Kafkaesque story of Polish prison life. |
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| The member for Peterborough resorted to humour to present some Kafkaesque situations that are unlikely to occur in reality. |
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| David Choe must have had a Kafkaesque morning, waking up to find himself changed in his bed into a monstrous millionaire. |
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| In a discussion of the Union's seas and maritime resources, this is as surprising as it is Kafkaesque. |
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| The most grotesque distortions gain currency: Brussels is supposedly home to an immense, Kafkaesque bureaucracy. |
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| Yet if his lonely experience in prison could be called Kafkaesque, then so too could his life before he was sentenced. |
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| In this Kafkaesque twist of the legal system, Maria is a victim indelibly marked as a criminal. |
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| It is important that this report does not simply create a Kafkaesque type of system, but that it also provides a guarantee for officials. |
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| The fact is that only by assuming false identities, through bribery and deception, could people survive that Kafkaesque nightmare. |
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| Private individuals sometimes find themselves in Kafkaesque situations in their relations with the police or justice. |
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| I would even go so far as to say that this whole plethora of agreements and provisional licences, implemented by means of a terribly cumbersome mechanism, verges on the Kafkaesque in its absurdity. |
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| Unlike the orotund elegance of Jamesian, for example, or the insinuative darkness of Kafkaesque, the word Kiplingesque has something comic and preposterous about it now. |
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| But here, Kafkaesque creepiness is up front and grand guignol. |
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| Chinese energy diplomacy in Central Asia and on the shores of the Caspian Sea offers a model that European companies wishing to escape from the Kafkaesque universe of Russian-American rivalry would be well advised to follow. |
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| In short, the country has been transformed into an open-air prison where all fundamental rights and freedoms are completely muzzled by nightmarish, Kafkaesque, pervasive and abusive practices. |
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| Frederick Deknatel on the vulgar Kafkaesque genius of Sonallah Ibrahim. |
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| Being a black man is often Kafkaesque, and this situation definitely is. |
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| After a curt reception of a delegation led by Margaret Wallstrom, the European environment commissioner, this week, Ms Whitman issued a curious statement that captures the Kafkaesque quality of current American thinking. |
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| Anyone who is familiar with the US personal credit-rating culture from which the sovereign risk culture has grown will know that it has a Kafkaesque way of doing things. |
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| Its competitors tell a Kafkaesque tale of regulatory capture. |
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| It is so little balanced it is Kafkaesque. |
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| In a Kafkaesque style the universities even went as far as to remove their names from the internal telephone books, the doors and the university websites. |
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| These articles are violated by the Kafkaesque rationale developed by some governments for holding large numbers of persons for long periods without charging them with a crime or other offence. |
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| The new regulation will force Europe to be much more specific, including with regard to the front end of the nuclear chain, bringing an end to a rather Kafkaesque situation. |
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| Indeed, it is every bit as absurd as a Kafkaesque trial. |
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| As I will detail later, in compiling change I certainly do not want any atmosphere of 1984 to invade the Commission on the contrary my objective is to get rid of Kafkaesque legacies, not to introduce Orwellian controls. |
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| This strange Kafkaesque tale takes her further from the traumatic events of her recent past. |
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| In a statement, Prof Diab described his life as being caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare. |
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| An expatriate couple expecting their first child land in a Kafkaesque country where wearing toilet plungers is mandatory. |
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| Ordinary consumers, many now in fuel poverty, are funding this Kafkaesque economic nightmare by way of subsidies to wealthy landowners, rich investors and major utilities. |
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| And his so-called antiwesterns, with their existential minimalism, lack of motivation and plotting, and Kafkaesque absurdism, enjoy high esteem among German cineastes. |
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