(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.
Underworld
Definition:
(n.) The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
(n.) The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
(n.) The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
(n.) The inferior part of mankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(2) He says he approached politicians, police officers, lawyers, even members of the city's underworld.
(3) Last year saw a slew of shootings involving members of the Yamaguchi-gumi - Japan's biggest underworld organisation - and a rival gang as they battled for control of lucrative districts in Tokyo.
(4) Many among this group drift into the criminal underworld or prostitution.
(5) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(6) Sumo wrestling , already suffering a tarnished reputation, is facing its greatest scandal in years amid revelations of extortion, illegal gambling and ties with the criminal underworld.
(7) Officials from the defence ministry, run by Rajapaksa's brother, Gotabhaya, have said many of the abductions since the end of the conflict were of "underworld characters involved in organised crime, drug trade, extortion, kidnapping and such antisocial activities".
(8) For yet others, the key trigger was a series of high-profile arrests beginning in 2002 that destroyed the underworld equilibrium.
(9) Others, from the drug underworld, seem inherently unreliable.
(10) You couldn’t go home because your head was buzzing”: It was in the Flying Squad that Malton was first to come across those members of the underworld's aristocracy.
(11) With one foot in the underworld and the other in the entertainment business, he is straddling two camps and ultimately has two systems working in his favour.
(12) Decades of government intransigence over calls to liberalise the marijuana sector means that Jamaica is light years behind western Europe and the US in terms of establishing laboratory and research infrastructure, official distribution networks, finding merchants untainted by the criminal underworld, and an organised framework of governance.
(13) Not far away lies Cape Tenaro, where Hercules is said to have descended into the underworld and tamed Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
(14) It was she who refused to believe the Goan police's assertion that her daughter had merely drowned in an alcoholic, drug-induced stupor, one more hapless victim of Anjuna's dark underworld.
(15) It's a smart, cold film, with a sub-Tarantino outlook but with flourishes by director Dominik, whose ace is to mirror the financial crisis and the underworld.
(16) And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history."
(17) The concept of "professional" theft is reviewed, the use of drugs by professional thieves is discussed, and the interaction between this underworld group and the early Federal Bureau of Narcotics is examined.
(18) But those who enforce these rules have made it clear to the court that an underworld influence still threatens cricket.
(19) At the time, corridistas told their stories in the playful tone of a comic book or action movie, but he revelled in the savage reality of the underworld, peppering his songs with gory details of torture and execution.
(20) One notorious underworld figure, Salvatore Buzzi, ran a vast cooperative that provided food and language courses for migrants and his combined business was said to be worth £30m.