But the solar flares increased and the hellish environment was so harsh that the ships began to overload as they tried to take the refugees to safety.

With its fiery metal casting lines, it was a hellish environment for many workers, and relations between management and the union were often tense.

Some enslaved mothers appear to have committed infanticide, rather than bringing their children into what was clearly a hellish environment.

His universal curiosity was in full operation as he worked all day, week after week, in a hellish environment.

For others it is a hellish environment fraught with homesickness and feelings of not fitting in.

The common theme is humor that tends toward black: the comedy workplace as a hellish, soul-crushing environment, but with laugh lines.

He recalled how guilty he felt--how it tore him up inside to leave his friend in such a hellish environment.

By taking advantage of its geological and human resources, DesPlaines had turned a hellish environment into a prosperous and comfortable place for its natives to live.

Far from being a paradise, Long Island, particularly Nassau County, is a hellish environment for dogs and their owners.

The majority of the levels are set in a hellish environment where monsters include demons and giant eyeballs and later in laboratories.