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Definition of Kafkaesque in English: Kafkaesqueadjective ˌkafkəˈɛsk Characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world. a Kafkaesque bureaucratic office Example sentencesExamples - Subway (Whitney Museum, New York) is perhaps his most famous work - a terrifying vision of Kafkaesque isolation.
- The Kafkaesque nightmare of indefinite detention without review has been the hallmark of fascist systems - not of the United States.
- There, amid a Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal, his medical skills became indispensable to the prison authorities.
- In her testimony, she described her brother's four-year-long ordeal as Kafkaesque.
- Virtually all were innocent, yet they found themselves in a Kafkaesque legal purgatory of secret evidence and charges that could never be challenged.
- 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.
- The conversation had a Kafkaesque quality to it, which is to say, it smacked of police-state mentality and measures.
- In truly Kafkaesque fashion, he cannot find out how his name got on the "do-not-fly" list, nor how he would be able to get it removed.
- Thus begins Symmetry, a Kafkaesque story of Polish prison life.
- To an outsider trying to decipher the roots of such conflicts, the situation is, well, Kafkaesque.
Rhymes arabesque, burlesque, Dantesque, desk, grotesque, humoresque, Junoesque, Moresque, picaresque, picturesque, plateresque, Pythonesque, Romanesque, sculpturesque, statuesque Definition of Kafkaesque in US English: Kafkaesqueadjectiveˌkɑfkəˈɛskˌkäfkəˈesk Characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world. a Kafkaesque bureaucratic office Example sentencesExamples - There, amid a Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal, his medical skills became indispensable to the prison authorities.
- Virtually all were innocent, yet they found themselves in a Kafkaesque legal purgatory of secret evidence and charges that could never be challenged.
- 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.
- The conversation had a Kafkaesque quality to it, which is to say, it smacked of police-state mentality and measures.
- In truly Kafkaesque fashion, he cannot find out how his name got on the "do-not-fly" list, nor how he would be able to get it removed.
- The Kafkaesque nightmare of indefinite detention without review has been the hallmark of fascist systems - not of the United States.
- To an outsider trying to decipher the roots of such conflicts, the situation is, well, Kafkaesque.
- Thus begins Symmetry, a Kafkaesque story of Polish prison life.
- In her testimony, she described her brother's four-year-long ordeal as Kafkaesque.
- Subway (Whitney Museum, New York) is perhaps his most famous work - a terrifying vision of Kafkaesque isolation.
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