(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
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”.
Unfathomable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(2) Told of Pistorius's denial, Levitt replied: "Not only is she standing by what he said, but she finds it unfathomable that he denies it in front of a number of witnesses.
(3) A man with a machine gun chatting to a protester about midgies might seem delightfully British, but it also emphasises the surrealness of Trident and how we resort to small talk because its destructive potential is so unfathomably big.
(4) Given that Solskjaer, who is in charge of Molde, has spoken in the past about Sir Alex Ferguson advising him to choose an owner rather than a club when it comes to management, it seems difficult to believe that the former Manchester United striker would warm to the idea of working under Tan, whose reputation for interfering and making unfathomable decisions now precedes him in the world of football.
(5) Unfathomable, futuristic madness: that's what made me want to visit Japan.
(6) I had no idea what I was looking at: the one thing I did know was that this unfathomable futuristic madness was precisely the sort of thing I'd come to Japan to see.
(7) For reasons which are unfathomable Daniel became a target for derision, abuse and systematic cruelty."
(8) Cutting that $9bn spent on private schools – or transferring that money to public schools – would end the wasteful elite private school "arms race" where unfathomable amounts have been spent on gyms, pools and the like.
(9) Gordon Brown's new bag, made - unfathomably - by shipyard apprentices at a naval dockyard, is actually made from pine, like most good coffins.
(10) Leading environmental figures, including the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, have condemned government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable".
(11) It is unfathomable - and it really all goes back to Ryan's decision to throw the ball deep instead of running the ball and killing clock.
(12) The frontrunner is a self-styled “independent”: Zac Goldsmith, the unfathomably wealthy, roll-up-smoking Tory environmentalist who was until recently Richmond Park’s Conservative MP and the party’s candidate for London mayor.
(13) Rich countries are (based on low debt vs GDP) ... Russia, China, one or two North African countries, Indonesia, some South American countries, a couple of Southern African countries, Australia and a few Middle Eastern countries, Developed countries are (based solely on GDP ignoring unfathomable debt for some of them) ... North America, Northern Europe, Japan, Australia and a few Middle Eastern countries.
(14) Clashes here with US forces were such a centrepiece of the Iraq war that the prospect of the US air force now giving cover to the group in coming weeks seemed unfathomable for many of those on the sidelines of Saturday's parade.
(15) Early single Manners, with its unfathomably wonderful chorus full of down-pitched tambourines, was the sort of song you sense would never go anywhere.
(16) During millennia, the mechanisms of procreation have constituted for man an unfathomable and irritating riddle.
(17) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(18) He finds the lack of media interest in his wife’s jazz album unfathomable, and interprets his six million votes in 2004 as proof that today’s public “want me to make music”.
(19) he marvels plaintively, pretending to find such interest in him unfathomable. "
(20) Of course, as professionals we need this signing and we expect to have that shortly.” Cellino’s Elland Road reign, which has seen him employ six managers, has been littered with unfathomable U-turns and outspoken outbursts, lending weight to the theory the 59-year-old could decide to sell the club to someone other than the fans.