Forests of middle-aged men in dark suits†all slightly redfaced from eating and drinking too much†a nightmare of elderly white males.

-Abbott, DianeJulie
  Of the House of Commons. In the NewYork Times, 3  Jun.

   In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of  W.B.Yeats', pt.3.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
 Ulysses.