| 单词 | Kafkaesque |
| 例句 | The collection’s Kafkaesque titular story is the strongest because of its notable timeliness. Review | Haruki Murakami’s ‘First Person Singular’ will satisfy fans with its uncanny scenarios 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The show's success lies in its presentation of the Kafkaesque idea of being trapped in the wrong life, and the truth that, under fine clothes or rags, we are all the same. The Prince and the Pauper – review 2013-01-11T13:10:30Z Miles of them, snaking around the streets of the city for blocks and managed by systems that border on the Kafkaesque. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z He’s a Polish writer and journalist, looking with a kind of appalled fascination at his country’s southern neighbor and finding that life there can often be, well, Kafkaesque. Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z A disastrous, almost Kafkaesque experience with a major label, well detailed in the “Drive Somewhere” documentary, did the band in. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z What ensues does have Kafkaesque dimensions: as the buddies arriving at Britt’s try to help her without alerting her parents, more obstacles develop. Spare Times: For Children, for March 30-April 5 2012-03-29T21:30:27Z The second discovery of the experiment is that it's impossible to write as Kafka without being overtaken by what cinema has made of the Kafkaesque. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z Human society, as depicted in Twin Peaks, is what’s really uncanny – a beguilingly absurd Kafkaesque simulation that satirises the real thing. Twin Peaks recap: episode five – is anyone here even human? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis If it were any other writer, today's unfolding of events in an anonymous bank vault in Zurich would be described as Kafkaesque. Fate of Franz Kafka's literary heritage turns into nightmare ruled on by judge 2010-07-19T20:43:00Z “Probably leukemia,” said Dr. Max Kreditor, my hematologist with the Kafkaesque name. I wanted to publish a book before I died 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The office is so sparsely furnished as to be Kafkaesque, bare but for a cheap desk and two office chairs, an AM/FM radio and a college-dorm mini fridge plugged into one wall. The Man Who Would Be Han Solo 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The umbrella search becomes duly Kafkaesque, leading to encounters with a series of odd individuals who will shape his fate. Ten of the best brolleys in literature 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z He was trapped in a surreal system that could only be described as Kafkaesque. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Some, like Elio Petri’s Kafkaesque “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion,” have entered the cineaste mainstream, but there are enough car chases, beat downs and groovy soundtracks throughout to please any genre buff. Movie Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z That pitch had traveled its own Kafkaesque journey, metamorphosing as it went. With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Q. If “Joseph Anton” is like a novel, it’s not just a Kafkaesque story about a guy forced into hiding. Q. and A.: Salman Rushdie 2012-09-18T16:49:30Z Meanwhile, in a Kafkaesque twist, the late-2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Qatar, the country that tops all others in per-capita production of greenhouse gases! From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z "An Iranian Metamorphosis" is a masterful work: the straightforward tale of the artist's detention — and that of his editor Mehrdad Ghasemfar — woven together by moments of humor, tragedy and surreal Kafkaesque absurdity. Cartoonist Mana Neyestani speaks on his Iran imprisonment, Charlie Hebdo 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Released last month, Presumed Guilty was promoted as an exposé of the Kafkaesque world of Mexican justice that picks on poor people who can't afford good lawyers, and almost always convicts them. Mexican film ban attempt elevates Presumed Guilty to box-office hit 2011-03-07T19:06:06Z Combining a heady cocktail of theft, blackmail and dysfunctional family relations with a touch of the Kafkaesque, this is a powerfully written and deeply thoughtful work. Noon by Aatish Taseer - review 2011-08-26T21:55:05Z Not a Kafkaesque existential deadness, but something else, something that captured “not the endless cycle of meaningless activity but the endless cycle of meaningful activity.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Or a literally Kafkaesque symbol of our broken, grotesque humanity. Warren Ellis' 'Normal' is a fast-paced dystopia about a burned-out futurist 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The odd allusion to mind-numbing bureaucracy sounds the requisite Kafkaesque notes. ‘Closet Land’ is courageous and uncomfortable, but also predictable 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z What it shows in a bleak and desolate-seeming Tehran, the lives of people with barely enough money to survive being made more miserable by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, unemployment, drug addiction and wife abuse. Indonesia massacre, Iran sanctions impact infuse Venice film offerings 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Though he began writing fiction with the Kafkaesque tone of his early Involuntary trilogy, his subsequent work was a joyful helter-skelter through multiple genres. This Novel Is a Record of Its Own Failure. Somehow It Succeeds. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z His architectural mazes, with their stark monochrome stairways leading nowhere and doors opening on to pits of ultimate darkness, build up an atmosphere of some Kafkaesque psycho-geographic nightmare. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z I wondered if death is merely the same deal—life interrupted then rebooted as some Kafkaesque journey with several checkpoints. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Hoffe's death at the age of 101 resulted in a whole new bureaucratic and judicial tangle, one that wags naturally dub "Kafkaesque". Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z Being Kafkaesque, the Policeman makes use of a mechanical typewriter. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z But for all of the surrealism in “Amerika,” whose runic metaphysics helped give rise to the adjective “Kafkaesque,” the manuscript doesn’t begin to match the genuinely American phantasmagoria of “Boom Town.” Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The narrative is sprawling and crowded, but it achieves the suspense and focus of a Kafkaesque thriller, and it presents the ethical dilemmas of life under Communism with remarkable clarity. Movies 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s well worth the effort to brave the traffic on the Kafkaesque 405 Freeway. Skirball Cultural Center Showcases the Experimental Designs of Architect Moshe Safdie 2013-12-12T05:00:00Z The narrator of his new novel, “The One-Eyed Man,” has been reduced to a single letter: K., and that Kafkaesque allusion is just the beginning. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z In his novel “The Zero,” Jess Walter used a Kafkaesque sense of the absurd to conjure the post-traumatic stress disorder the nation suffered. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z His protagonists are often pitted against overwhelming bureaucracies, inhabiting a nightmarish world that was the model for the term “Kafkaesque”. Israel's national library to share reunited Kafka archive online 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z All of them inhabit what Pavone effectively renders as a murky, Kafkaesque world. ‘The Travelers’ review: A Hitchcockian thriller about a reluctant spy 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z There is something absurdly Kafkaesque about these trials; they’ve become crucibles that show the country where black America truly stands. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The case is a reminder that the word Kafkaesque was inspired by a son of Prague. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z It's not every day that an international dispute of Kafkaesque proportions shakes up the literary world, but one involving the author himself is doing just that. Were Lost Kafka Masterpieces Stashed Away in a Swiss Bank? 2010-07-23T06:55:00Z What it shows in a bleak and desolate-seeming Tehran is the lives of people with barely enough money to survive being made more miserable by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, unemployment, drug addiction and wife abuse. Indonesia massacre, Iran sanctions impact infuse Venice film offerings 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “It seems a kind of maze that is impossible to escape,” Micallef writes, “a Kafkaesque world where the fact-checkers have endless work but few are paying attention.” What Toronto Knows about Trump after Living through Rob Ford 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He bases his defense on his experience of overcoming the Kafkaesque bureaucratic challenges of life in India. Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z It was a fable of almost Kafkaesque intensity, a story in which all the hope in the universe dwindles down to a single flashlight beam and then goes out. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark": Voices in the basement 2011-08-24T20:25:00Z They took me aside to warn me what I was in for: Getting Sasha out would be a Kafkaesque struggle with Soviet bureaucracy. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z The title work of this 1936 collection is a Kafkaesque fable: Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z To call them Kafkaesque wouldn’t do them justice. This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z This Kafkaesque proliferation of crimes against virility is one reason why men stopped talking about it. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But in doing so he tells a greater and more troubling tale still, about the Kafkaesque madness of a justice system that appears engineered to deliver anything but justice. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z "This situation is messed up – totally Kafkaesque," he exclaims, nodding sagely to his impressed crew, still not entirely sure what he's just said. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z Sleek, suspenseful and thoroughly surprising, “Workforce” unfolds in its first half as a gritty Kafkaesque drama about exploited workers. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Even his frantic, Kafkaesque last performances, which centered on his legal ordeals, featured him impersonating characters on every side of the case. Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z And watching this embodied in the guises of actors from divergent cultures adds to the feeling that Kafkaesque nightmares are universal. Review | Binational playmaking takes exuberant, revealing form in the Russian-American ‘Flash Acts’ 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Singing in a rich, plaintive voice, Presnell played the brief Kafkaesque part of a lovelorn New York cockroach in an otherwise cheesy, sex-fueled musical featuring aerial acrobats. Brooklyn's Bushwick becomes world-class arts mecca 2011-07-31T19:46:10Z Herman is given the runaround by vacant-looking, Kafkaesque officials in matching outfits and unnaturally yellow hair, before moving into a local hotel to better get the lay of the land. Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Naz’s predicament is positively Kafkaesque; and his attorney, Jack Stone, whose cunning is obscured by his raw, eczema-scarred feet, feels like a figure in one of Flannery O’Connor’s allegorical grotesqueries. “The Night Of” recap: The new, terrifying reality sets in 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z As the Kafkaesque drama of a man unable to get a transfer, “Zama” shares the dislocation and torpor characteristic of the Salta Trilogy. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This Kafkaesque novel about the “everyday horrors” of gender inequality in South Korea begins when a young stay-at-home mother is driven to a psychotic break. New in Paperback: ‘Deacon King Kong’ and ‘The Undocumented Americans’ 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z What he finally provides, by way of explanation, is a Kafkaesque account of how bizarre his brief Ailes sightings were. Books of The Times: ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room’ Is a Look at Roger Ailes 2014-01-19T22:43:42Z It was while temping as a medical secretary in the "Kafkaesque anonymity of the NHS" that his breakthrough with Mr Gum occurred. Andy Stanton's 'cult humour for kids' 2011-07-05T11:48:22Z It was apparently a remarkable demonstration of the truth of his theory, as was "demographism", where in a Kafkaesque display, the diagnosis was literally written on the patient's body in raised red welts. Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt - review 2011-07-15T21:55:01Z “I had 10 years of a horrific life, Kafkaesque,” he told The Times in 1993. Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Now, you can decide that’s Kafkaesque brilliance or you can decide that it drives you crazy because it’s manipulative and implausible. Secrets of “Blood Simple”: The devious neo-noir classic is more complicated than it looks 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Yet the Kafkaesque surreality that the play seems to demand is largely missing from this staging. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Initially, we seem to be reading a Kafkaesque version of the nativity story, with refugees playing the holy family in an uncaring host country. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z “There’s no further action that you may take here,” someone at Facebook wrote to Porter with Kafkaesque authority. Cannabis cleanse? Why big tech is giving pot businesses the boot 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Now, he’s suffering a Kafkaesque ordeal in which he’s hounded to repay loans that funded an education his son will never get to use — loans that he has little hope of ever paying off. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z Claudel explores the appeal of the Kafkaesque at the beginning of the 21st century and the importance of reading literature written in languages other than our own. Guardian Books podcast: Literature in translation and water stories 2013-03-15T14:06:09Z But Mr. Sanchez also noted that discussion of the politics of surveillance often resorts to “a language borrowed from fiction,” notably the adjectives Orwellian and Kafkaesque. ArtsBeat: Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close 2012-05-07T14:23:30Z But not before making a casualty out of a smart, earnest girlfriend who stuck with him even after he declared the end of “The Metamorphosis” to be “Kafkaesque.” ‘Marriage Story’: Noah Baumbach’s First Feel-Good Movie 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, “Court,” a Kafkaesque portrait of life and justice in an Indian courtroom, opened to critical praise. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Glover has called Atlanta “Twin Peaks for rappers”, and this season perfectly captures the Kafkaesque unpredictability of black life in America; the way an average moment can flip into a wild ride. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z We use “Kafkaesque” to describe encounters with banally evil customer-service agents; it’s the shorthand that op-ed writers use to protest the dark dealings of the state. What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z But these conversations quickly become self-defeating as one realises the colossal amount of Kafkaesque red tape that would have to be surmounted to make any progress. Why British film is all kitsch 'n' sink 2013-06-22T16:45:01Z His tale is Dickensian, but also Kafkaesque, since he is at the mercy of powerful forces beyond his ken or control. | 'Project Nim': Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented 2011-07-07T22:30:06Z The Kafkaesque absurdism deepened, too, as in “The Late Captain Pierce,” in which Hawkeye is declared dead in a bureaucratic mix-up and tries to exit the war on a morgue bus. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Looking at the desks and shelves Corbusier and Jeanneret designed, now laden with files in some Kafkaesque bureaucracy, it’s clear modernism didn’t make life sleeker or easier or cleaner. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z “It’s poor; it’s badly conceived; it’s based on some decent ideas, the execution of which is needlessly Kafkaesque.” A Bridge Over Musicians? Visa Barrier Into the U.S. 2010-03-16T21:51:00Z Sometimes I think of that, the Kafkaesque quality of what this experience must be for them. Noah Hawley on ‘Fargo,’ Comic Haircuts and Living in the Coen Universe 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z So are the glimpses of bureaucracy that lead to a Kafkaesque nightmare — and the "Rashomon"-like touches that hint that objective reality may not exist. 'A Separation': a wholly engrossing Iranian tale of a couple divided 2012-02-02T21:05:07Z What works in this novel is its Kafkaesque sense, through Pew, of free-floating anxiety and mortification of a sort that is impossible to define and thus impossible to soothe. In ‘Pew,’ a Mysterious Stranger Tests a Small Town’s Tolerance 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Here, he expands his tonal range and approaches a kind of Kafkaesque absurdity. ‘The Boat Rocker’: Ha Jin’s timely novel about freedom of the press 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z They emphasized, however, that it is more important to her that her father be removed, calling it a necessary first step toward her freedom and “ending the Kafkaesque nightmare imposed upon her.” Britney Spears hearing may mean freedom from court or father 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z A piercing tragedy with Kafkaesque political overtones, it addressed the universal plight of stateless refugees from repressive regimes. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z Cowell, a former foreign correspondent for The Times, tells a story with a Kafkaesque twist. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Despite mounting calls, such a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of suffering won't be easy to dismantle. The drug war is over. Its hawks just don’t realize they lost 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Last year, Doros and Heller launched the nonprofit organization Missing Movies to highlight the problem and help filmmakers navigate what can be a Kafkaesque maze of licensing and distribution deals made in a prestreaming world. Streaming's most wanted: Why it's so hard to find these iconic film and TV titles 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In practice, implementation can be a Kafkaesque nightmare. Opinion | How the GOP’s Medicaid work requirements will backfire 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Worse, the Kafkaesque county says she has no compensable property interest because the county took her property. Opinion | The county seized her condo, sold it and kept all the money. Not nice. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The drafters of this new Biden regulation have twisted themselves into Kafkaesque knots in an attempt to pass legal muster. Opinion | On immigration, why is Biden resurrecting Trump policies? 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z A one-time waiver to rules that had become Kafkaesque in their complexity let hundreds of thousands of public service workers get $14 billion in loans forgiven. Challenges to Student Loan Cancellation Reach Supreme Court 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Panahi plays the urban-rural divide for Kafkaesque absurdism, as he becomes embroiled in an outlandish misunderstanding having to do with a photograph he may or may not have taken. Review | ‘No Bears’: Another work of art from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Sterling’s performance art slowly becomes indistinguishable from the Kafkaesque legal system that entraps the performers. Review | Four new sci-fi and fantasy novels featuring bizarre transformations 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But when the Canadian author tried to amend the page, she found herself in a bit of a "Kafkaesque" situation. Why Emily St John Mandel asked for help getting divorced on Wikipedia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z At a luggage carousel in Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport, he was involuntarily enrolled in a Kafkaesque tutorial now in its third year. Opinion | Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won’t give it back. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z There's a lot of bewilderment at the Kafkaesque benefits system that people are forced into. I, Daniel Blake star Dave Johns updates film's story for stage premiere 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z They speak in tortured tones about what Burn called a “Kafkaesque” experience in managing the often conflicting demands of multiple agencies. Column: A $2-million 'bike lane to nowhere' symbolizes L.A.'s outrageous dysfunction 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The truly Kafkaesque smear here is that Little improperly disclosed identities in communications with Congress. Why is the U.S. Olympic agency meant to stop sexual abuse investigating its top critic? 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z But in a truly Kafkaesque situation, the state now says it never received Miller's form. Alabama's death-row debacle: The state plans to kill a man this week. But how? 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z What gives the campaign the most Kafkaesque quality is that no matter how bizarre, absurd or illogical the rules are, most people follow them without question. Playing the Kafkaesque Show of Covid for an Audience of One 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z His demand seems paltry, heightening the Kafkaesque absurdity of the scenario, while at the same time inviting other questions: Did he really think he’d get off scot-free to enjoy his $892? Review | John Boyega rages against injustice in the fact-based ‘Breaking’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z That may be a long-standing norm for judges in Prince George’s, but it is a Kafkaesque dereliction of duty. Opinion | As inmates languish, Prince George’s County judges turn a blind eye 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z This is a tale full of Kafkaesque twists about the efforts of the U.S. Why is the U.S. Olympic agency meant to stop sexual abuse investigating its top critic? 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z "That's kind of the bottom line of the absurdity of this — it's Kafkaesque," said Dan Smith, chair of the political science department at the University of Florida. A government official helped them register. Now they’ve been charged with voter fraud 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z No matter what, the Kafkaesque show must go on until Mr. Xi says, “Stop.” Playing the Kafkaesque Show of Covid for an Audience of One 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Worse, we are using those jails to warehouse severely mentally ill people in a Kafkaesque state of uncertainty. Column: 'No treatment until tragedy' is our mental health system. CARE Court could change that 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z In the months since, “what has resulted is an unaccountable Kafkaesque process that has and continues to inflict grave, irreparable harm on Custodia,” the firm said in its suit. Bill to grant crypto firms access to Federal Reserve alarms experts 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z What followed was a Kafkaesque trial, replete with strange twists and contradictions. Zimbabwe Court Convicts Reporter for The New York Times 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The federal judge overseeing the case called Ms. DeVos’s denials “disturbingly Kafkaesque.” Biden Says He Is Taking a ‘Hard Look’ at Student Loan Relief 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z "Completely unjust that I spent even one day in this Kafkaesque situation. Not looking back. Onward." Human rights lawyer who took on Chevron is finally free — after 993 days 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Expression Interrupted, an organization that tracks freedom of expression in Turkey, carried a 7,000-word article attempting to decipher the thicket of judicial actions against Kavala, calling it “a Kafkaesque legal spiral.” Turkish philanthropist sentenced to life term after widely criticized trial 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Trump and his underlings did everything they could to throw sand in the gears, making an already dysfunctional bureaucracy as cruel and Kafkaesque as possible. Opinion | Trump broke the immigration system. Biden hasn’t fixed it. Now Ukrainians are suffering the consequences. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “The Kafkaesque tribulations through which the claimants were dragged have wreaked havoc on their financial lives,” one complaint said. Dozens of BuzzFeed Employees Claim They Were Illegally Shortchanged in I.P.O. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Hand-held cameras project live video of characters caught in the Kafkaesque maze. Review: 'Detained' confronts the many cruelties of the immigration system 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Shooting on film, the imaginative directors confect a realm of tactile magic, with Kafkaesque flourishes, through the ingenious handcraftsmanship of practical elements and low-fi effects. Review: Future cult classic 'Strawberry Mansion' is one of the most unique indie visions in years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z This was just another example of kangaroo court proceedings not uncommon at institutions of higher education that are administered by progressive apparatchiks too uneducated to understand the adjective “Kafkaesque.” Opinion | Even by today’s standard of campus cowardice and conformity, this repulsive episode is noteworthy 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z One Australian columnist called it “a Kafkaesque border shambles.” Novak Djokovic’s visa fiasco is a fitting drama for Australia’s summer of discontent 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in Europe, parenthood often remains a Kafkaesque challenge for same-sex couples, who faced heaps of additional bureaucracy compared with heterosexual parents. AP PHOTOS: Polish athlete and her wife welcome child’s birth 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Parenthood often remains a Kafkaesque challenge for same-sex couples who are faced with heaps of additional bureaucracy and other demands that traditional couples do not face. EU’s top court boosts the rights of same-sex parents 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Kay has called the process a "Kafkaesque nightmare" in which she has been "lied to, ignored, ostracised and shut out of my own company". Rosie Kay: Dancers write open letter to choreographer after gender row 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The sound of insistent knocking sends Gina into a Kafkaesque tailspin. Review: 'A Hit Dog Will Holler' tackles the private toll on Black women activists 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The singer "has been faced with a decade-long nightmare, Kafkaesque nightmare orchestrated by her father and others", her lawyer said in September. Britney Spears: Singer's conservatorship case explained 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z In 2017, she was detained by the Chinese authorities, and to this day, she remains in custody without charge, a Kafkaesque fate that befalls many whom the party believes have committed political crimes. Review | An insider’s view of China’s Communist Party: Corruption and capitalist excess 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z What ensued was an embarrassment to Stafford and a Kafkaesque odyssey for the county’s Muslim community. Opinion | A Muslim cemetery was finally approved in Virginia. Now bigotry needs a proper burial. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “What followed was a Kafkaesque nightmare of isolation, abuse, and callous disregard for Mr. Murillo’s physical and mental health,” the lawsuit states. ICE held a man in solitary confinement for more than a year. He's suing under a new California law 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “I borrowed this money for my education, and I should pay it back. But to be 54, and to think: Oh, I’ll never buy a house. It’s like being in a Kafkaesque tunnel.” Troubled Student Loan Forgiveness Program Gets an Overhaul 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z “Today we breathe a collective sigh of relief as the Kafkaesque system that dashed the dreams of far too many finally starts to be dismantled,” she said. Troubled student loan forgiveness program gets an overhaul 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z He called it “a necessary first — and substantial — step towards Ms. Spears’s freedom and ending the Kafkaesque nightmare imposed upon her by her father, so that her dignity and basic liberties can be restored.” Britney Spears' conservatorship hearing today could change everything 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The prime minister and ruling People's Action Party have a long record of using fine-spun, Kafkaesque legalism to block freedom of expression. Yale's failed Singapore venture: More American arrogance in Asia 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The Lanes describe the process of fighting their surprise bill as frustrating and Kafkaesque. Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill. 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The travel ban, though a relatively low-profile issue in the United States, had been particularly galling to Europeans, with one British newspaper dubbing it “Kafkaesque.” U.S. to lift covid travel ban, allowing entry for vaccinated Europeans and others 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z But more recently it has become a Kafkaesque quagmire of bureaucracy without exit for thousands. Frustration grows for migrants stuck in southern Mexico 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z But the Ionesco-tinged high jinks are imbued with a Kafkaesque threat. The early Harold Pinter play that speaks volumes about our current moment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The Idaho law is the most Kafkaesque in its censorship: It affirms freedom of speech and then bans divisive speech. The War on History Is a War on Democracy 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z But it’s complicated: The legal system withholds many rights from people under 18, so a married 17-year-old can become trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Opinion | A 14-Year-Old Bride, Wed to Her Rapist, Playing on a Jungle Gym 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z For Lizeth — who spoke to The Associated Press on condition that her full name not be published due to safety concerns — an O’Connor ruling led to a Kafkaesque nightmare. Many wait uneasily as Biden unwinds key Trump asylum policy 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z For Lizeth — who spoke to The Associated Press on condition that her full name not be published due to safety concerns — an O’Connor ruling led to a Kafkaesque nightmare. Many wait uneasily as Biden unwinds key Trump asylum policy 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The film gets there, after some Kafkaesque scenes of Maryam trying to travel to Dubai for a medical conference, without her father’s permission. Review | Saudi drama about a woman running for office is a candid look at a culture in flux 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z A static document that lacks legislative enforceability but allows activists to bring legal action that hinders creation of homes is Kafkaesque. Opinion | D.C. can’t plan for now; how can it plan for the future? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z To his exasperation, the audience loved it all - his dourness, his deadpan answers, his low-key frustration at being trapped in a 21st Century Kafkaesque nightmare. Lelush: How a sulky Russian model became China's slacker icon 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Judge Alsup’s ruling in October — which called the department’s adjudication process “disturbingly Kafkaesque” — was a balm, she said. A DeVos System Allowed 12 Minutes to Decide Student Loan Forgiveness 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “I find it senseless. It is nightmarish. It is Kafkaesque.” He Was Caught Jaywalking. He Was Almost Deported for It. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Reunited families were released into legal peril for a range of reasons, each a reflection of an often Kafkaesque immigration system. Separated at the border, reunited, then separated again: For migrant families, another trauma 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z "To be offered the vaccine and then to be trapped in some Kafkaesque nightmare where you can't get your booking accepted... I wasn't very happy at all," he said. Coronavirus: Apology after children invited for vaccine 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z It is no different in France, where there is a Kafkaesque maze of rules to get consent for vaccinating the elderly. Not in short supply: Blame for EU’s rusty vaccine rollout 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Her case has turned "into a Kafkaesque court battle that has reawakened her fandom and raised pressing questions about mental health and an individuals' rights", it added. Framing Britney Spears: Documentary to delve into #FreeBritney case 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z That means small business owners like Ms. Heikkinen who run afoul of regulations now find themselves in a Kafkaesque administrative labyrinth outside judicial courts. Small business owners buck Gretchen Whitmer’s shutdown: ‘We don’t have any other option’ 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z But for the British lawyer-turned-whistleblower, his time on the Croatian coast is more of a Kafkaesque nightmare. Oil firm whistleblower trapped in Croatian holiday hell 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Alsup, a Bill Clinton appointee, threatened to block DeVos from denying any additional applications, calling the denial notices "potentially unlawful" and the process faced by borrowers "disturbingly Kafkaesque." “Disturbingly Kafkaesque”: Judge rips Betsy DeVos for denying 94% of student debt forgiveness claims 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z It leaves borrowers in a “disturbingly Kafkaesque” situation, he wrote. Judge slams DeVos for rejecting 94% of loan relief claims 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Without local leadership, transparency and strong oversight, public-private partnerships like these become two-headed beasts: Kafkaesque bureaucracy working in service of rapacious business. Opinion | Captain Chain Saw’s Delusion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Emphasizing his fondness for the country, he described a Kafkaesque effort to understand the government’s decision and seek avenues for appeal before it was too late. Beijing Launches Another Demolition Drive, This Time in Its Bucolic Suburbs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z While they are frustrated with the Kafkaesque nature of the search, Mohammed and Rima Zahed save most of their vitriol for the government officials whom they hold responsible for the explosion. In Beirut, one family's agony is a window to a nation's suffering 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Later Sunday, the younger Mr. Netanyahu deleted the tweet, but in a series of other social media posts, he strongly criticized the court’s ruling, calling it Kafkaesque. Israeli Court Rebukes Prime Minister’s Son Over Harassing Protest Leaders 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z In the nation’s capital, a query about confusing wait times for D.C. testing on a popular blog sparked dozens of posts about Kafkaesque confusion and “total incompetence.” Delay in coronavirus test results makes it near useless as public health tool 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The Wedel family said it was tangled in the Kafkaesque rules of military bureaucracy and the Army’s initial disinterest in finding him. ‘The military failed him’: Soldier’s bones found months after he was labeled a deserter 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The real issue is Apple’s power, of which this whole Kafkaesque series of changing rules is a symptom. Apple’s App Store polices are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement is worse 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z She was yet another victim of America’s immoral and Kafkaesque healthcare system. A $1.1m hospital bill after surviving the coronavirus? That's America for you | Ross Barkan 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z He would use bureaucratic jargon known only to someone inside Russia’s Kafkaesque legal system. After Exposing Corruption in Russian Courts, He’s Now in Jail Himself 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z In Kafkaesque fashion, it often proved impossible even to learn why something had been banned. When "fake news" was banned: an America Trump might have loved 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z "Between having experienced the economic marginalization forces people endure, and then having a very direct experience of sort of Kafkaesque authoritarianism, both of those experiences inflected my perspective," Buttar, who is now 45, said. Why Shahid Buttar has a real shot at primarying Nancy Pelosi from the left 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But record-keeping in India’s infamously Kafkaesque bureaucracy is patchy at best and often riddled with errors. India’s Muslims rush to collect documents after new law fuels anxiety over their citizenship status 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z She encountered that over and over, in a Kafkaesque battle with Uber’s human resources department. Susan Fowler on life after Uber: "I’m always looking over my shoulder" 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z In her Feb. 14 Friday Opinion essay, “The administration’s Kafkaesque new way to thwart visa applicants,” Catherine Rampell described a new administrative practice to keep immigrants from getting visas. Opinion | Trump’s policies and character 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z But the sight of a gym full of peer pressure and vote counters made this democratic exercise look like a Kafkaesque nightmare about Miss Congeniality. The botched Iowa caucuses have become the ultimate political metaphor 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, responded that any trial without witnesses would be “Kafkaesque” and a “sham.” Senate leaders at impasse over Trump impeachment trial 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Her collection makes me want to use the trite and overused descriptor Kafkaesque, but I won’t. The best books of 2019 – picked by the year’s best writers 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z “It is a Kafkaesque situation, we were all taken by surprise without understanding why,” said the Health and Happiness Project’s coordinator Caetano Scannavino. Police raid office of Brazil NGO linked to brigade that helped battle Amazon fires 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z That was sort of the Kafkaesque assignment that Dan Jones was given, and Adam really connected with that.” 'The Report' and 'The Laundromat': Two sides of American fraud and corruption 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z This is part of a Kafkaesque financial shell game that has played out since the 2008 financial crisis. How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z A Kafkaesque momentum had been set in motion, and this time it wasn’t lack of freedom that revealed itself, as usually happens in bureaucratic processes, but a fairytale breach that opened up. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z But the process is impossibly Kafkaesque: you have to send evidence that you don’t owe the debt, so you’ll need to find three-decade-old pay stubs and household expense receipts. Struggling Americans are haunted by zombie debt. Will you be next? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z There is also a chilling Kafkaesque quality that spans the globe. Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s called Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which is kind of Kafkaesque. Transcript: Anthony Williams 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z She made a similar point in August, criticizing a “Kafkaesque procedural rule” in Florida. In Death Penalty Cases, Sotomayor Is Alone in ‘Bearing Witness’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Gee issued a formal order shortly after, slamming the changes as “Kafkaesque” and protecting the original conditions of the Flores settlement. Judge rejects Trump administration effort to indefinitely detain migrant families 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z There is a Kafkaesque tone to the tale of providing health care in southeast Missouri. Opinion | The carnage of corporate-run health care in rural America 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z In a Kafkaesque turn of events, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department top watchdog is under investigation — by the Sheriff’s Department. Newsletter: Behind the scenes on a yearlong homelessness reporting project 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z After all the hope that Saul would be reunited with his mother and family, he instead continues to wait there, hoping for an update to emerge from the Kafkaesque immigration court system. 'Like a child': the disabled migrant stranded and alone in Mexico 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z One especially Kafkaesque accusation concerned a 2012 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Kirill Serebrennikov, director detained in Moscow: 'Complexity is resistance' 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The Trump administration’s policies have turned the process into a Kafkaesque nightmare. Perspective | I became an asylum officer to help people. Now I put them back in harm’s way. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Workers find themselves enmeshed in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, centrally controlled and micromanaged. Neoliberalism promised freedom – instead it delivers stifling control | George Monbiot 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Gindel Delgado spent two months excluded from the system, spending all his spare time on Kafkaesque efforts to be able to use money again. Barter and dollars the new reality as Venezuela battles hyperinflation 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Critics worry that a standardized world is dull and mediocre, a nightmare of conformity and Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Opinion | The Joy of Standards 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z So Mr. Lopez is taking the Kafkaesque step of training for a second job as one of the part-time baggage handlers he oversees. Europe’s Middle Class Is Shrinking. Spain Bears Much of the Pain. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The Kafkaesque logic at play here seems to be that promoting a medicine without data is better than promoting it with. Japan should put the brakes on stem-cell sales 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z There is a particularly Kafkaesque echo to the social media site’s decision: Certainly, no one likes feeling like a cog in the vast machinations of an incomprehensibly large, uncaring corporation. Why "platforms" like Tumblr are a totalitarian threat 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z “A Kafkaesque bureaucracy with bad writing” The appeals process is so confounding that it’s given rise to an entire industry of consultants like Stine. Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Mayer is starting to despair of ever getting off whatever list he is on – or even finding out what list it is – and wonders how many other people have also been trapped in Kafkaesque confusion. Strange case of theatre historian, 90, mistaken for one-armed terrorist 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z What’s followed has been a Kafkaesque nightmare for the Tacoma, Washington, family. They were covered by health insurance, but their newborn son wasn’t 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Rather, this looks like contracted, Kafkaesque immersion in the world’s travesties with little thought into what the consequences of this scavenging means. Review: Chilling documentary 'The Cleaners' explores the costs of a corporately sanitized Internet 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It would be an absurd and Kafkaesque scenario if — rather than Russia being suspended — one of Putin’s henchmen were to become the leader of one of the world’s most important law enforcement institutions. Opinion | The world can’t let Russia run Interpol. My experiences show why. 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z JC Hewitt, whose law firm frequently works with Amazon sellers, calls the system’s mandatory guilty pleas, arbitrary verdicts, and obscure language “a Kafkaesque bureaucracy with bad writing.” Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The movie’s too slow at the start and somewhat befuddling at the end, but for the most part it’s a haunting, poignant portrait of one woman’s Kafkaesque nightmare. Review: Kristen Ruhlin pens herself a meaty role in horror film 'Welcome to Mercy' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The nightmare described by his lawyer as “Kafkaesque” began Dec. 12, 2016, when a state trooper stopped the longtime comedian and juggler for a minor traffic offense in Carson City. Lawsuit: Mistaken identity led to jailing of Vegas performer 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z So began a Kafkaesque two-year ordeal that plunged Brooks into reflections about current parenting practices. Opinion | The symptoms of America’s fall into unfocused furiousness 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The Herald on Sunday newspaper described the department’s decision as “Kafkaesque red tape” that did little to enhance New Zealand’s reputation. New Zealand removes ivory keys from imported antique piano 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party, also called for an end to the "Kafkaesque nightmare" and "mental torture" of indefinite detention. No detention for vulnerable migrant women 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Pellegrino argued that the narrow legal questions decided by the appeals court overlook governmental abuses she describes as “Kafkaesque.” Analysis | Woman who clashed with TSA likely to appeal case that shields screeners 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Rather in Kafka’s books, these “Kafkaesque” attributes exist in the minds of his protagonists. Are We All a Little Paranoid? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But others will find themselves nodding in recognition of the often funny, too often relatable, even "Kafkaesque dream sequence" job descriptions Graeber shares. If you think your job is pointless, it probably is 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But the city’s investigative process itself can be Kafkaesque: Investigations can be prompted by anonymous complaints. A New Principal Pushes for Change. Then the Investigations Start. 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Dorfman succeeds in this, but the novel is much more than a Kafkaesque meditation. Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer' 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Yet, despite the Kafkaesque horror of it all, a lot of comments from supposedly educated NYT readership are cheering on the executions. A 10-Minute Trial, a Death Sentence: Iraqi Justice for ISIS Suspects 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z He now even has an adjective derived from his name - "Kafkaesque" means to have nightmarish or illogical qualities. Tolkien's first Middle Earth story due 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z What followed was a Kafkaesque stretch of confusing statements and, ultimately, a double-digit number of months that did not count toward her forgiveness total. A $350 Million Fund Helps Many Public Servants. Meet the Ones Left Out. 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Chilling Kafkaesque encounters give way to portrayals of thuggish cops bordering on caricature. Woman's courage on display in Tunisian sexual assault drama 'Beauty and the Dogs' 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Their strategy ultimately failed, but not before Dr. Sheikhzadeh would undergo what he, his lawyer and his friends depicted as a Kafkaesque ordeal. He Wouldn’t Become an Informant. Now He’s Headed for Prison. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z For all that, “VRwandlung” captures the allure and risks of modernity in Kafkaesque style. Is literature next in line for virtual-reality treatment? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z To not do so is sort of Kafkaesque. Frail, Old and Dying, but Their Only Way Out of Prison Is a Coffin 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Bureaucracies that turned seemingly mundane activities like registering for classes into Kafkaesque experiences — “getting Wayned,” students at Wayne State used to call it — are being streamlined. Opinion | When Your College Has Your Back 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “Kafkaesque” is overused as an adjective to describe authoritarian regimes, but one aspect of the word is apt — the comic absurdity of how power is sometimes wielded. A Dance for Tibetan New Year, Then 17 Hours in Custody 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Interviews with detainees and people close to them shed light on a Kafkaesque ordeal. ‘A Saudi Luxury Prison’: How the Kingdom Squeezed Billions From Billionaires 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z It was a testament to her courage and dignity amid Kafkaesque injustice, something I still admire in Manning. We need to talk about Chelsea Manning 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z She tells your whole Kafkaesque story to the judge. You're losing everything - but you don’t understand why 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Though some of the actors in this Kafkaesque drama are not individually at fault, Tigano's third attorney should clearly be disbarred. Court Clears Man Who Waited 7 Years for Trial on Pot Charges 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “A Kafkaesque self-destruction,” the Independent of London called it. Perspective | Jana Novotna faced her humanity, and triumphed 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z His allies talk nervously about a Kafkaesque situation where Kenya keeps holding elections that are repeatedly rejected in court. Uhuru Kenyatta’s hollow victory 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z “Not even Kafka’s trial was as Kafkaesque as this process,” she said. Catalonia’s leader again refused to declare independence. Now it’s up to parliament. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z In a video released last year, Coleman said her family was in a “Kafkaesque nightmare” and that her children had “seen their mother defiled.” Man held by Taliban-linked captors: They raped my wife, killed our baby 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z She described their years-long ordeal as “the Kafkaesque nightmare in which we find ourselves”. Parents of freed US hostage furious with son-in-law for Afghanistan trip 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “We have waited since 2012 for somebody to understand our problems, the Kafkaesque nightmare in which we find ourselves,” Coleman said in the video. American woman, Canadian husband and children freed in Pakistan after 5-year hostage ordeal 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Its narrator, Ryder, is a pianist who arrives in a central European city to play a concert, but the novel fractures almost immediately into a Kafkaesque world of appearance and illusion. Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel laureate for these muddled times 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It's a Kafkaesque web, and it's a little depressing, but it's also inspiring to see the sort of work that's being done to sort it all out. Let's watch some Strange Loop talks and become smart people 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The word Kafkaesque is used loosely these days, but here’s a true story that deserves the adjective. Kafka Goes to the DMV 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Rory I. Lancman, one of sponsors of the bill, said it was necessary to help people work through a bail system that is “Kafkaesque.” To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z A country of laws should not allow Kafkaesque immigration court proceedings to decide life and death cases. The US deportation system is verging on lawlessness | Denise Gilman 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Over time, these leaks can become the dominant narrative that leaves defense attorneys swinging at phantoms in the Kafkaesque shadows. Sure, the torrent of Trump leaks is irresistible — but some leaks serve to protect the rich and powerful 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z He puts his underlings in the Kafkaesque situation of trying to get the stubborn Elser to confess to something that was not true. German drama '13 Minutes' details 1939 assassination attempt on Hitler 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “It was such a Kafkaesque situation,” Wolozin said of the teen’s case. A teen in MS-13 was detained at the border and held for years. A judge just set him free. 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z In a typically Kafkaesque short prose poem, “Plans of the Night,” she gives to an owl and a “Deeply Skeptical Pigeon” the role of artist and antagonist: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Despite Kafkaesque obstacles, Al-Sharif manages to become a pioneering computer professional. Review: ‘Daring to Drive’ illuminates Saudi woman’s life 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Once in the NSK pavilion, visitors are put through a Kafkaesque series of obstacles. Art of the state: how the Venice Biennale is tackling the refugee crisis 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The charges against me were cancelled after the foreign ministry intervened, but hundreds of others will be forced to challenge charges against them in Russia’s often Kafkaesque court system or face fines or compulsory labour. Why have I been arrested? Maybe you killed Kennedy, the Russian officer said 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Every day since, Pari has been held in isolated detention in Australia: alone, traumatised, segregated and trapped in a Kafkaesque legal and political nightmare. Death in detention: ‘I'd give everything to have him back’ 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Beyond the almost Kafkaesque disappearance of the word "no", some are feeling the impact of trying to say it. Turkey says 'no' to saying 'no', ahead of its referendum - BBC News 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z A senior man in the International Committee of the Red Cross describes Guantánamo as “a Kafkaesque legal conundrum”. Guantánamo remains a stain on America’s reputation 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The language in the society’s own lawsuit was more blunt: “What should have been a simple board approval for a permitted use devolved into a Kafkaesque process that spanned an unprecedented four years.” The Mosque Next Door: City Law vs. Houses of Faith 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Coleman described “the Kafkaesque nightmare in which we find ourselves” after being held in captivity since 2012, when they were kidnapped while backpacking in northern Afghanistan. Afghanistan hostage couple make video plea for 'Kafkaesque nightmare' to end 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In the clip Ms Coleman begs for an end to their "Kafkaesque nightmare". Afghan hostage couple decry 'Kafkaesque nightmare' - BBC News 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In the video, Coleman begs for an end to their "Kafkaesque nightmare" and is critical of both the American and Canadian governments and the family's Haqqani captors. Taliban video shows sons born to kidnapped U.S., Canadian couple 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Coleman refers to “the Kafkaesque nightmare in which we find ourselves” and urges “governments on both sides” to reach a deal for their freedom. Canada calls for release for kidnapped couple in Afghanistan 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z “The whole affair is Kafkaesque,” Mr. Bukovsky said in an interview. Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Washington’s Kafkaesque fuel mileage rules would only become more Kafkaesque. Green Elites Face Trump Threat 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z A protest triggers a Kafkaesque regulatory process, in which the applicant must “prove,” in advance, that the proposed start-up business is “necessary” to the public. Let’s move free enterprise to West Virginia 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama, I assume that you, in contrast to your predecessor, know what "Kafkaesque" and "Catch 22" means. Chelsea Manning Tried Committing Suicide a Second Time in October 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Crapser’s positive attitude belies the Kafkaesque nature of his life in the United States. A South Korean Man Adopted by Americans Prepares for Deportation 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The Washington Post is not a party to the lawsuit, but its executive editor, Martin Baron, was outspoken in his criticism of Iran during Mr. Rezaian’s prosecution, calling it “Kafkaesque.” Jason Rezaian, Washington Post Reporter, Sues Iran Over Imprisonment 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z This tortured frenzy matched what Picasso called Maar’s “Kafkaesque” personality. Pablo’s people: the truth about Picasso's portraits 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Instead, he offers a cascade of workplace perks — vending machines! a gym! pet-friendly cubicles! — and the scene quickly becomes Kafkaesque. At Washington Ensemble Theatre, ‘F’ stands for ‘feminism’ and ‘funny’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The word Kafkaesque is thrown around so casually that it feels like a cliche, but this situation warrants it. After 22 years, the Rams are back in LA. Was it worth the wait? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z He spent three years in the Kafkaesque Colombian judicial system fighting those charges, which were heard by the Supreme Court. Takedown of a Candidate, Bogotá Style 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The circular series of no comments appears to leave Henck in a Kafkaesque limbo — not knowing the status of the investigation, which he says weighs heavily on him. Is the IRS getting back at an in-house critic? 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z So the refugees remain in a bleak, Kafkaesque limbo, with no direction in which they can turn, no way out apparent. The worst I've seen – trauma expert lifts lid on 'atrocity' of Australia's detention regime 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The figures might seem to be in opposition but, in the increasingly Kafkaesque world of big business and the capital markets, they aren’t. The Trouble Buried in the New Fortune 500 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps almost as abused as Kafkaesque is Orwellian. Kafkaesque: a word so overused it has lost all meaning? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z This seriously warped family portrait — an inspired thematic hybrid of Kafkaesque alienation and Farrelly brothers farce, with a healthy grafting of Tod Browning's "Freaks" — still has an organic sweetness at its core. 'Men & Chicken' is a darkly comic look at a family secret 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Liston's own attempt to appeal a funding decision last year was foiled by a Kafkaesque process. How one lab challenged a grant rejection and won €5 million 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The FAA’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy is so constricting that a former administrator once privately complained that he lacked the authority to hire a secretary. Why Upgrading Air-Traffic Control Is Stuck in a Holding Pattern 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z That wasn't at all the case before the Uniform Time Act of 1966, when different states and even localities set their own timekeeping rules and created Kafkaesque confusion. The Strange and Surprising History of Daylight Saving Time Related: Translated fiction sells better in the UK than English fiction, research finds But back to The Vegetarian, and how Kafkaesque it is, whatever that actually means to us. Kafkaesque: a word so overused it has lost all meaning? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Bar and restaurant owners are used to working through a tangle of regulations, but liquor licensing may be the most Kafkaesque. Restaurants Work Around Liquor Laws With Wine-Based Drinks 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Last week two dissidents were jailed on spurious charges of inciting racial hatred, following a Kafkaesque trial sparked by a discussion on Facebook about an unpublished book written two decades ago. Drift and dissent 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z We saw that often local hospitals won’t grant these privileges, leaving the doctor and the clinic in a Kafkaesque catch-22 in which there is no way to meet the requirements of the law. The biggest danger to abortion providers is not fanatics but state legislatures | Dawn Porter 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Executives of The Washington Post, who say Mr. Rezaian is innocent of any wrongdoing, have described his prosecution and imprisonment as a Kafkaesque farce. Marine Veteran Held by Iran Received Care, His Family Says 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The Vegetarian’s US publisher calls the novel “a darkly allegorical, Kafkaesque tale of power, obsession and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her”. Kafkaesque: a word so overused it has lost all meaning? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In the days following Li’s disappearance, two Chinese lawyers launched a Kafkaesque mission to locate the missing attorney, travelling to police stations and detention centres across northern China where they suspected he was being held. Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z This is a cruel, wholly Kafkaesque bullying tactic. A Muslim family’s interrupted vacation 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z "On one hand this is very serious but on the other it is completely absurd – Kafkaesque!" said Alexander Cherkasov, executive director of Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow. Activist organizations struggling to survive under Russian restrictions 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Texas’s position subjects children and their parents to a Kafkaesque hall of mirrors. Texas’s war on birthright babies 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He now finds himself in the middle of what he deems a “Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare.” U.K. Academic Held at Bangkok Airport For 5 Days Straight 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The structure of modern music production is Kafkaesque. Imogen Heap: saviour of the music industry? 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z And in 1996, she chastised federal prosecutors for trying to deport a former deputy attorney general of Mexico, calling their efforts politically motivated, unconstitutional and “Kafkaesque.” Familiar Talk on Women, From an Unfamiliar Trump 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z For defendants who would fight their cases and maintain their innocence if they had the money, a guilty plea involves a ritual of court procedure that verges on the Kafkaesque: The Bail Trap 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The ordeals of those interviewees who dared publicly remember veered from the Kafkaesque to the Orwellian, including trumped-up jail terms and forced “holidays” accompanied by members of the security apparatus. Louisa Lim: 'I wanted to discover how Chinese people became complicit in an act of mass amnesia' 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z His mother described a “Kafkaesque” nightmare in which they hunted down evidence that the school didn’t bother to find, such as GPS and other data that helped clear the student of the attack. A ‘scarlet letter’ for students implicated in sex assaults: D.C. bill sparks debate 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The issue is even more complicated because Oren is caught in a Kafkaesque situation. Oren's Obama-Bashing 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z "At one point on Monday - before the latest stay - the Supreme Court ordered a hearing to be held four hours after his scheduled execution. It was a Kafkaesque situation," a Reprieve spokeswoman told the BBC. Pakistani man Shafqat Hussain given death row reprieve - BBC News 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z For three Kafkaesque years, the gyro was in mothballs in Japan. Around the world in an autogyro: cancer survivor attempts a global first 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z They described the proceedings against him as “a Kafkaesque political show trial”. Egypt frees Ohio State graduate from life sentence after 16-month hunger strike 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z They described the proceedings against him as “a Kafkaesque political show trial.” Egypt frees Egyptian-American sentenced to life in prison 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z They described the proceedings against him as "a Kafkaesque political show trial." Egypt frees Egyptian-American sentenced to life in prison 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Sarao will appeal against the court's refusal to change his bail conditions at the High Court on Wednesday, said Egan, who later described the current situation to reporters as "Kafkaesque". Accused 'flash crash' trader takes bail case to UK High Court 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z That's the Kafkaesque title of a civil asset forfeiture complaint filed in a U.S. How the IRS seized a man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The Meitivs’ Kafkaesque experiences concluded with them accused of “unsubstantiated” neglect. Punishing parents who deviate from the government-enforced norm 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z “These kinds of Kafkaesque restrictions reflect the abject unfairness that Iran has shown at every turn in its handling of Jason’s case,” Baron continued. Post reporter Jason Rezaian faces limited lawyer access before Iran trial 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The trial also contained a number of other Kafkaesque deformities. Kafka In Paradise: Maldives Court Sentences Former President For Terrorism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The Kafkaesque existence that millions of people suffered through under South Africa’s apartheid laws is rendered with powerful simplicity in “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead.” A Review of ‘Sizwe Banzi Is Dead’ in Princeton 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z We're all used to the tap-tap of a keyboard by now, but isolate it in a wordless, Kafkaesque nightmare like these creators do, and you get something more than a little unnerving. Watch this trippy animated short about a guy literally trapped in a desk job 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z There are too many laws, too many regulations with criminal penalties attached for any of us to be truly protected against a Kafkaesque experience with the criminal justice system. Eric Garner Died Over a Victimless Tax Crime 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z What’s more, although finding a true definition for “Kafkaesque” may be a futile task, it’s also an enjoyable and enlightening occupation. Reading group: searching for meaning in Kafka 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z I raged about benefit sanctions that show our current beloved government at its “Kafkaesque worst”. Reading group: Has ‘Kafkaesque’ metamorphosed beyond all meaning? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z When my son recently wrote a story for English class, his teacher called it “Kafkaesque.” Saying exactly-ish what we mean The exteriors were sort of this gray, Middle European, Kafkaesque kind of world. 'The Zero Theorem' director Terry Gilliam says the devil convinced him to join Twitter 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The agencies secretive rules for the No Fly List were recently called “Kafkaesque” by one federal judge and ruled unconstitutional by another. Homeland Security was built to fend off terrorists. Why's it so busy arming cops to fight average Americans? 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Many of the definitions of “Kafkaesque” that we hit upon earlier this month can be seen clearly in the stories. Reading group: searching for meaning in Kafka 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Since that started me thinking about my own writing, I couldn’t resist a vanity search on Google for “Sam Jordison” and “Kafkaesque”. Reading group: Has ‘Kafkaesque’ metamorphosed beyond all meaning? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Turning on a TiVo for the first time is invariably a negative experience, because you are thrust into a Kafkaesque universe where each completed update or boot sequence is immediately greeted by another. TiVo minus TV: testing the cable box for cord cutters 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z This is perhaps Gilliam’s most Kafkaesque film ever, but Kafka himself would never have been so blatantly obvious. 'The Zero Theorem' review: nothing for everyone 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z “Kafkaesque” has become such a ubiquitous blanket description for multiple varieties of murky, irrational administration that it no longer adequately implies the specifically nervous qualities of Kafka’s own work. The 10 best Dystopias 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Now that he’s had to flee his home after an attack by ISIS, and is waiting as a refugee in Kurdistan, this ordeal—sluggish at best, more often Kafkaesque—will become even more difficult. The Visa Crisis in Iraq 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In that last piece, the author declared: “If it were any other writer, today’s unfolding of events in an anonymous bank vault in Zurich would be described as Kafkaesque.” Reading group: Has ‘Kafkaesque’ metamorphosed beyond all meaning? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Bravo to Randyn Charles Bartholomew for sticking with his case through the District’s tortuous and, as he aptly described it, Kafkaesque small claims court system. A small claims court win can mean a big moral victory But in this Kafkaesque world, it's not just people who want more work from him who are adding sheets to the pile. Android Wear review: the everything inbox 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Hobbled but determined, she began a ten-month Kafkaesque journey through the insurance jungle that only ended this year when new Obamacare rules banned insurers from excluding patients with pre-existing conditions. In the battle for North Carolina, it's 'all healthcare all the time' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z But it was GM’s culture, in which silence and buck-passing were raised to a Kafkaesque art form, that kept these silos in place. We've All Got GM Problems 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr Petkoff, the exemplary democrat, must defend himself in a compromised court against Kafkaesque charges. Venezuela’s progressive conscience 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z “Still, I have found the paperwork and frustration involved in this process to often rise to Kafkaesque levels.” State Department approves more visas for Afghan interpreters 2014-05-07T12:36:00Z But the judge said she did not have the authority to grant the two men stays of execution while her decision was litigated, sending the inmates into a Kafkaesque legal maze. Oklahoma Set for Double Execution Amid Storm Over Lethal-Drug Secrecy 2014-04-29T18:31:30Z Mrs. Huang, 36, described it as a Kafkaesque journey in which neither of them could fully understand what was happening. After the Death of Their Daughter, a Verdict Looms 2014-03-24T23:56:12Z “The system is Kafkaesque,” Mr. Breed, 60, said this week in an interview. Health Care Exchange in Oregon Not Meeting High Hopes 2014-03-21T01:42:37Z They are trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare where each day brings a strange, disorienting, twist. MH370: For Families of the Missing, the Nightmare Never Ends 2014-03-19T09:34:44Z In her work as a human-rights activist, Ms. Kennedy has dealt with Kafkaesque legal persecutions in places like Western Sahara. Impaired-Driving Case Took Toll, Kennedy Says 2014-03-05T04:12:22Z Even in China’s highly politicized judicial system, where political offenders almost never prevail in court, charges of separatism are notoriously Kafkaesque and especially difficult to defend, experts say. China Charges Scholar With Fomenting Separatism 2014-02-26T13:55:51Z “It’s Kafkaesque. ...And bad things happen when there is no sunlight.” Scott Walker, eyeing 2016, faces fallout from investigations as ex-aide’s e-mails are released 2014-02-19T11:00:00Z With spare dialogue and a nonlinear narrative, it presents a Kafkaesque picture of authoritarianism on a small scale. Miklos Jancso, Who Directed Stylized Films of War and Tyranny in Hungary, Dies at 92 2014-02-02T04:57:43Z The money is now under the control of Dutch foundations, run by boards known by the benign, if Kafkaesque, term of benevolent interveners. Tycoon Is Free, but His Money Is Still Tied Up 2013-12-31T00:59:16Z Jang’s downfall looked all but certain after he was arrested earlier this week in front of top party members for, among other things, the Kafkaesque crime of “dreaming different dreams.” Kim Jong Un's Brutal North Korea 2013-12-13T16:05:35Z They also described a Kafkaesque trail of botched police operations, arrests, "truth serum" tests and contradictory rulings by different investigative bodies. Parents guilty of killing daughter in case that captivated India 2013-11-25T13:15:54Z Still, Zobel said class certification was improper because of a "nearly endless series of individual questions" affecting the various borrowers, amid a "Kafkaesque bureaucracy that decided which documents were required of which borrowers." U.S. judge rejects BofA mortgage modification class action 2013-09-05T18:24:25Z “The judge told me I would have to go home,” he said, speaking English as he described a Kafkaesque detention. Russia Steps Up Raids Against Migrants 2013-08-13T00:51:47Z “It’s a Kafkaesque situation, where they didn’t know why they were there or when they were going to get out.” California Is Facing More Woes in Prisons 2013-07-15T03:08:34Z The entire trial is a Kafkaesque show trial. Russia wants whistleblower's ex-boss jailed for nine years 2013-07-03T14:56:20Z But "Kafkaesque" seems more appropriate to the situation in which we find ourselves. GCHQ: this is a pivotal moment: democracies are becoming national security states 2013-06-22T18:30:00Z While expressing sympathy for borrowers facing a "Kafkaesque bureaucracy" and saying their claims "may well be meritorious," U.S. U.S. judge rejects BofA mortgage modification class action 2013-09-05T18:24:25Z Her gripe was with the familiar characterization of the private sector as the sole source of innovation and creative thinking and of the state sector as a Kafkaesque world of inefficiency, bureaucracy and frustration. Way of the World: Eye-Opener for the Elite on Inequity 2013-06-13T15:22:18Z Wouldn't it be Kafkaesque for the girls to walk out of court as a "legal" couple after a trial where Kaitlyn was just convicted of a felony sexual crime against her girlfriend? Underage Sex: Will a Girl Be Prosecuted for Being Gay? 2013-05-30T10:50:24Z The word “Kafkaesque” is often used to describe something needlessly complex and labyrinthine. What is it about Penny Pritzker? 2013-05-23T23:56:59Z In fact, the word “Kafkaesque” is often used to describe something that’s needlessly complex and labyrinthine. Mitch McConnell drops a Russian-lit reference 2013-05-23T15:44:00Z All of them appear to be in some Kafkaesque bureaucratic limbo that allows no closure in the matter. Has anyone been ‘fired’ because of the Benghazi attacks? 2013-05-22T10:00:00Z But there’s little expectation of strong language to confront the reality of the Palestinians’ Kafkaesque predicament. Obama is missing the real Israel 2013-03-21T14:18:00Z There is no small irony that, in another Kafkaesque twist, people who are prevented from flying can still legally buy weapons and many of the politicians supporting security theater oppose gun control. Drug Screens-and More Security Theater (Part 2) 2013-03-05T15:15:00.603Z But in this Kafkaesque season, that's a veritable bounty of success. Can Kobe Bryant's Lakers turn around the season that stank? 2013-01-29T19:01:45Z I am also reminded of other witch hunts that were equally misguided and also led to perverse and Kafkaesque results. Prosecutorial Excess: A Pattern of Abuse 2013-01-24T15:45:08.073Z Trying to get a photo-ID in the name of Raymond Rutherford—the name on his tax returns, pay-stubs and school records—led to a Kafkaesque ordeal of record searches and large lawyers’ fees. Access to the polls: Counting voters, counting votes 2012-10-25T15:00:59Z The exit visa requirement became a hated symbol of the communist government’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy and Orwellian controls on personal freedom. Mass exodus in store for Cuba? 2012-10-19T22:07:00Z In a Kafkaesque incident, however, the dark side of phi emerges: manipulation of our neural circuitry is shown to elicit the most excruciating pain. MIND Reviews: Phi 2012-10-12T16:15:00.590Z A Kafkaesque literary thrust at the bitter, age-old struggle between power and freedom? IHT Rendezvous: The Writer, the State and the Nobel 2012-10-12T07:13:21Z MSPs also heard the benefits system described as a "Kafkaesque" machine that used "lies and misinformation" to deprive people of their benefits. Reforms 'force blind man to beg' 2012-09-18T14:36:34Z The report depicts a system that saves lives in miraculous fashion, but is also expensive and outmoded and in some cases downright Kafkaesque. Waste and Promise Seen in U.S. Health Care System 2012-09-12T02:06:29Z It's a Kafkaesque nightmare you're in: you say you didn't close the account and the bank can't supply proof that you did, but still refuses to hand over your money. Santander and a nightmare out of Kafka 2012-08-11T21:59:01Z Struggling homeowners looking to get their mortgages modified often describe the experience as frustrating and Kafkaesque. Mortgage Help Turns Macabre For One Homeowner 2012-07-31T10:00:12Z This is a long story, and the longest parts are painfully Kafkaesque. | Townies: I'll Cover You 2012-07-19T16:26:20Z Soon the innocent man is the star of his own Kafkaesque nightmare: the townspeople think Lukas is a cockroach that must be stamped out. Palme d'Or Preview: Handicapping the Five Top Contenders at Cannes 2012-05-27T15:05:44Z Indeed, that description — part Orwellian and part Kafkaesque — applies to much of Mr Ai’s experience over the past year. IHT Rendezvous: Ai Weiwei on the Pen and the Gun 2012-04-16T03:30:00Z A recent, Kafkaesque example of such arrests came early on Sunday morning, as demonstrators marched on sidewalks through the East Village toward Tompkins Square Park. City Room: What's a Protester to Do? 2012-01-05T20:00:23Z Industry executives credit government policies with India’s solar boom, unusual praise because businesses usually deride Indian regulations as Kafkaesque. In Solar Power, India Begins Living Up to Its Own Ambitions 2011-12-28T19:32:43Z She also has the ability to go straight to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with whom she has an extraordinary rapport, bypassing India’s often Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Ambassador Nirupama Rao, India?s new woman in Washington 2011-11-03T00:17:31Z In an angry, despairing essay for Newsweek, Ai Weiwei, a prominent Chinese artist and dissident who was released from detention two months ago, described life in the Chinese capital as a Kafkaesque “nightmare.” The Lede Blog: Dissident Chinese Artist Calls Life in Beijing 'a Constant Nightmare' 2011-08-29T17:09:13Z Abbas describes the security bureaucracy as Kafkaesque, a labyrinthine maze of overlapping agencies, all of which refuse to provide answers unless they are threatened with legal action. Muslim civil rights group continues fight over government?s implementation of no-fly list 2011-08-15T18:36:15Z This is exactly the Kafkaesque world that the pro-democracy protesters were trying to abolish. Op-Ed Columnist: Release My Friend! 2011-06-09T04:18:02Z Alas, Kafkaesque bureaucracy and a thicket of often-opaque regulations have survived the changes. Funding: Russia revitalizes science 2011-05-25T17:20:22.657Z Consumers who have trouble fixing errors through the dispute process can quickly find themselves trapped in a Kafkaesque no man’s land, where the only escape is through the court system. It Pays to Be on the V.I.P. List When Resolving a Credit Error 2011-05-14T22:00:03Z “I’m not going to mess with this Kafkaesque system,” he said. Manhattan?s Parking Court Mixes Anger, Officialdom and ?Next!? 2011-03-24T03:20:39Z The resolution: After a Kafkaesque process to secure the property, the Halls faced challenges in construction. When innovation is a risk for small businesses 2011-02-06T02:18:00Z "The last thing I want to read is a 40-page proxy full of algorithms or a Kafkaesque description of process," he says. A Chance to Veto a CEO's Bonus 2011-01-29T02:07:16Z The second cause was the Kafkaesque case of Feng Zhenghu, a lawyer and activist who spent more than three months in Tokyo’s Narita Airport after Shanghai officials denied him entry to the country. Prominent Chinese Artist?s Studio Torn Down 2011-01-12T13:42:03Z The term Kafkaesque is a reference to the nightmarish world portrayed in the work of Czech novelist Franz Kafka. MI5 spy claims 'truly Kafkaesque' 2010-12-24T13:01:12Z The danger of calling the justice system Kafkaesque or comparing democratic Britain to Stalinist Czechoslovakia is that you risk repeating the exaggerations of hysterical writers. Twitter and a scary tale of modern Britain 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z They enter a Kafkaesque dream in which they are sure they have woken up inside a pinball machine. Mancini finds that 25 into 11 won't go 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z It's a Kafkaesque world where the credit agencies absolve themselves of responsibility for their material, saying it is how the banks and other organisations use it that counts – and that's beyond their control. Credit agencies are no way to catch benefit cheats 2010-08-10T15:00:00Z It was the most hideous of possible scenarios, Kafkaesque really: I found myself sitting in a strange doctor’s office asking the same questions over and over again, as though persistence would yield up answers. My Life in Therapy 2010-08-06T12:00:00Z "I wish they would" make a clarifying statement "so I could be out of my misery," Paterson told King, adding, "It's like a Kafkaesque scenario." 2010-02-12T04:17:00Z In his spare time, English, 46, even started a website, gethuman.com, to help consumers circumvent the Kafkaesque automated phone systems of large corporations. 2010-02-01T17:00:00Z All too many find the perverse incentives and Kafkaesque atmosphere of Dilbert's mythical workplace reflective of their own experiences. :rave: /vi./ The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 The EU's faceless and Kafkaesque bureaucracy in Brussels - Moscow revisited - should prove to be a relief compared to the IMF's ruffians. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism It is a Kafkaesque, sealed universe in which nothing is, as it appears to be. After the Rain : how the West lost the East All too many find the perverse incentives and Kafkaesque atmosphere of Dilbert's mythical workplace reflective of their own experiences. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 |
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