(n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
(n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
(n.) The center of an escutcheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
(2) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
(3) Updated at 7.42pm BST 7.19pm BST Summary Here's a summary of Obama's statement and Q&A: President Obama said that to avoid 'the abyss', Iraq must form a new, inclusive government.
(4) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
(5) One path, to be honest, leads to an economical abyss.
(6) Until May there had been hopes that Winehouse might have been finding her way back from the abyss.
(7) He also imagined himself sitting on a grassy knoll in Poland, a country he had never visited, surrounded by rolling hills as dawn broke over the roof of the world on 26 May to reveal not a bucolic scene but the reality of his position – perched over a white abyss.
(8) The Bethnal Green schoolgirls, however, appeared to vanish into the abyss after they landed in Turkey, never starring in propaganda videos or demonstrating what they were doing there.
(9) However, it is also home to pressure-preferring or barophilic bacteria, believed to be functionally dominant over shallow-water intruders at abyssal depths.
(10) He accused the Ukrainian authorities who took over after the fall of president Viktor Yanukovych of driving the country to the abyss.
(11) Nigeria has been poised over an abyss for a long time.
(12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(13) After millennia of crossing the oceans in ignorance of what lies beneath, there is no longer any part of the abyss beyond our reach if we can find the will to go there.
(14) The question for those Labour MPs and others who can see where all this is leading, and want to stop Labour heading over the abyss, is what to do about it and when.
(15) Europe took a small step back from the moral abyss today, but it needs to do much more to provide clarity and turn this momentum into lives saved at sea.” The summit was called at short notice in reaction to the deaths of an estimated 800 migrants off the coast of Libya last weekend, drowned when their fishing trawler capsized in the biggest single tragedy in two years of attempts to flee sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East for southern Europe .
(16) "There was also no place that was covering music in the way that if you follow sports you go to ESPN, or like CNN with news, but with music you were just thrown into the abyss.
(17) "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over" ... "Amen" from the crowd, " ... and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair ... " " Yes, Lord."
(18) Methanopyrus kandleri is a novel abyssal methanogenic archaebacterium growing at 110 degrees C on H2 and CO2.
(19) When exhausted European leaders emerged from all-night negotiations in Brussels last month with a "comprehensive" plan to claw the euro back from the abyss, they could have had no inkling that, less than a fortnight later, it would have so comprehensively collapsed.
(20) Putin said Kiev was pulling the country into an “abyss”.
Perdition
Definition:
(n.) Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
(n.) Loss of diminution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition.
(2) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(3) AW: And shot by the late, great Conrad Hall, who passed away just recently and got the posthumous Oscar for Road to Perdition.
(4) Among the war's real lessons are that empire, in all its forms, always leads to bloodshed; that state violence is by far its most destructive form; that corporate carve-ups fuel conflict; and that militarism and national chauvinism are the road to perdition.
(5) Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition."
(6) I have made a Beckettian war movie ( Jarhead ), a $100m gangster movie like an arthouse film ( Road to Perdition ) and relationship dramas that are dark as they come ( Revolutionary Road ).
(7) There were many staging posts along the road to its perdition; each of them carried a stark warning to turn back from this path they had chosen and each was ignored by London party chiefs.
(8) Over a decade ago, at the time of the film Road To Perdition, I interviewed Daniel Craig and asked him if he’d turned down anything interesting lately.
(9) Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the Eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition.
(10) He recruited Sam Mendes to direct Skyfall, having worked with him on Road To Perdition, and persuaded him to return to direct Spectre, on which the actor also takes a co-producer’s credit.
(11) "It's hard to find anyone in Las Vegas, friends or enemies, who doesn't admire him for the sheer feats he has pulled off," says writer and journalist Marc Cooper, whose book, The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas, will be published next spring.
(12) In 1987, his production of Jim Allen’s play Perdition , which examined an alleged collaboration between Zionist leaders and the Nazis, was cancelled by Max Stafford-Clark at the Royal Court theatre just 36 hours before opening night.
(13) The Dutch might pass the ball to perdition but seldom were they allowed to find the routes through the middle which against Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals might have been motorways but which yesterday became culs-de-sac.
(14) Steadily became a fixture of British theatre - Angels In America, A Number - and cinema - Love Is The Devil, Elizabeth, The Trench, Some Voices, Enduring Love - progressing towards Hollywood - Road To Perdition and Munich.
(15) Bateman is the damned creature of a satirist's place of perdition.