What's the difference between netherworld and perdition?

Netherworld


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
  • (2) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
  • (3) When called up by Jurgen Klinsmann, "Jack Mac" couldn't wrestle playing time away from Chris Wondolowski, a player who embodies that netherworld between Major League Soccer significance and national team relevance.
  • (4) Glazer shoots everything - from the rainy streets of Glasgow to the barren netherworld of the alien lair - with a tear-jerking sensitivity to beauty.
  • (5) Many exist in an illegal netherworld in the sprawling city itself.
  • (6) On the downside, the film superseded L Frank Baum's book, which followed Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories for boys into the netherworld of semi-obsolete children's fare.
  • (7) The style and substance will be familiar to readers of pop psychology bestsellers such as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink or Jonah Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist: for Brooks the unconscious isn't a seething Freudian netherworld of sexual urges, but where we make the key decisions of our lives – whom to date and marry, how to vote.
  • (8) Sundar has a talent for creating products that are technically excellent yet easy to use – and he loves a big bet,” Page wrote when he promoted Pichai and moved Andy Rubin, the company’s former head of Android, into the robot-and-drone-filled netherworld that now comprises Alphabet’s non-Google divisions.
  • (9) I was cleared of my "crime" – but not before I'd lost two years of my life in a netherworld of prisons, police, tags and harassment.
  • (10) Superheroes operate in a netherworld just this side of fascism.

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.