The world they depict is neither hellish nor depraved, but it is decidedly egoistic and provincial.
Every one was looking for an exit from the hellish place.
The other one will have the kind of hellish life that is commonplace in this world.
To take another example : the monotheistic religions generally hold that after death there is a judgement, with some going thence to a heavenly reward and others to a hellish punishment.
This situation need not be considered typical however, and it is no part of my view that those who are unredeemed must exist in this shadowy, hellish state.
What followed was a "rectification" movement that, for most, made work impossible and life hellish in the late 1950s, and then from 1966 more or less until 1981.
I fear that hellish travel and traffic problems also occur.
Like angels dancing on the point of a needle, small though it is, a hellish number of speculators can dance on the sugar market.
