(a.) Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as Smallwood points out, efficiency savings are not a bottomless pit.
(2) But at the centre of it all, Pistorius remained utterly isolated, plunged into a seemingly bottomless pit of despair.
(3) With bottomless cynicism, Cameron relies on public ignorance on tax.
(4) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
(5) It’s because his is a spirit of fear and emptiness, that seeks only to fill his bottomless insecurity with worldly affirmations and idols, instead of humbling himself before the only One who can make him whole.
(6) Full disclosure (ahem): Vrulja Cove is also a haven for toplessness, and sometimes bottomlessness.
(7) Expired gas was collected by a bottomless metabolism chamber while the rats were on the treadmill for 120 min.
(8) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
(9) There’s nothing good that comes out of the death of someone you love, but I have learned this: the magnitude and bottomlessness of the pain you feel is a testament to the love you shared.
(10) It is also a further indication that, given the £5.1bn they shelled out between them on Premier League football, neither Sky nor BT have a bottomless pit of funds .
(11) The pancakes came accompanied by "whipped butter" and a mysterious "maple-style" syrup and "bottomless" coffee, which the waitress flung into my cup from a glass pot with a practised jolt of her shoulder.
(12) Lord Smith said "difficult choices" would have to be made over what to protect because "there is no bottomless purse" to pay for defences.
(13) On Monday morning, before the demonstration, Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the powerful CGT union, told RTL radio: “For several years now, successive heads of Air France have suggested rescue plans … each time, it’s a bottomless pit with the same suggestions.
(14) 2) A duet makes fiscal sense during these tough times Because when you've got a bottomless bucket of talent and a finite amount of time (not finite enough, some may argue) you have to duet right (Geddit?
(15) But there’s nothing more for the NHS, which is not a “bottomless pit”: it just needs the scale of funds per capita of an ageing population that it had 10 years ago.
(16) But even with expensive lawyers and bottomless pockets, this was a clear case of users’ rights – so we felt it was the right time to stand up and draw a line in the sand.
(17) "Ministers have a responsibility to retain a high degree of budget control, not least because the LCF is not a bottomless pit of money, it is paid for through the energy bills of households and businesses and as such excessive deployment of subsidised projects could and would lead to higher bills for the public."
(18) Michael Hewson of CMC Markets said Monte dei Paschi seemed like a bottomless pit: “With the Italian economy continuing to contract, and 18% of the bank’s loans being problematic, it is hard to envisage a scenario where the bank won’t end up like Oliver and coming back and asking for more.” By contrast, Germany’s Commerzbank gained 9% and Austria’s Raiffeisen was up 7.3%, after passing the tests.
(19) Arnett may say he’s looking to get more serious, and I hope he does, but BoJack proves, happily, his reluctance to kill that old creepy Arnett I love so much, and for that I’m bottomlessly glad.
(20) She writes: With its European partners reluctant to ‘throw money into a bottomless pit’ Samaras’ insistence that Greece requires no more money is supposed to reassure.
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.