But now, the Obama campaign has created what may be the perfect Kafkaesque apotheosis of over-caution.
"These are not just technicalities, " he said, adding that it had been a "Kafkaesque experience for many".
Kafkaesque justice, even for noncitizens, has no place in the American justice system.
By providing a drier environment, silk reduces that Kafkaesque tendency a nice blowout has of morphing into a nest of frizz overnight.
The lawyers for the detainees contend that the process at Guantanamo may look good on paper, but in reality it is a Kafkaesque farce.
If the details are not being grossly misrepresented here, Amazon (UK) appears to be basically subjecting a Kindle customer named Linn to a Kafkaesque Trial.
Mr Lodder, chairman-elect of the Bar Council, said there were fears prisoners could face a "Kafkaesque" situation where they had no idea when they would be released.
Previously the local authorities mockingly suggested that the church construct a new building in a protected nature reserve in which all construction is illegal, a humorously Kafkaesque solution.
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As an importer and distributor of exotic natural products in America and Canada and a dual national, I frequently encounter Kafkaesque situations in dealing with officials who have the power to lock me up.
Certainly there is the dead weight of the prison bureaucracy, a Kafkaesque interleaving of public service boondoggling and private sector lobbying, whose raison d'etre is not the reduction of the prison population but its increase.
Empowered by new IT, that is exactly what Indian entrepreneurs like Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Ajim Premji and Shiv Nadar began doing about 30 years ago, breaking through the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the Indian License Raj.
Every time some random oppositionist like Nemtsov is harassed in a decidedly Kafkaesque way, Western investors, justifiably, get that much more wary and the share price of the assets Medvedev et al. are trying to sell goes down a little.
Especially since Sept. 11, 2001, applicants and visitors (and their would-be hosts) have been screaming about the barriers put in the way of legitimate entry to the U.S. and the sometimes Kafkaesque experience of being caught up in the process.
Mr Kejriwal's party promises an independent and powerful ombudsman to punish graft (essential, though there are concerns that it could become a bloated, Kafkaesque anti-corruption bureaucracy), and sweeping electoral, police and judicial reforms (all of which India desperately needs, but reforms that politicians seem to be averse to), among other things.
But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.
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