(n.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
(2) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(3) He ushered me into the front room, told me to wait there, and shut the door, leaving me with just his whippet, Pluto, for company.
(4) Extracted from Our People by Iain Banks, from Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, published by Pluto Press.
(5) "When I was asked to do Pluto I was a bit dubious, first because as an astrophysics amateur I was well aware that Pluto wasn't technically a planet, and second because The Planets is a perfectly satisfying whole.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) PLUTO, ORTEP, and MMP2 input files are set up automatically.
(8) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
(9) And while there is plenty of interest in unmanned expeditions, like the New Horizons probe that sent dramatic pictures back from Pluto last year, what has always fired the public imagination is the human component.
(10) Now imagine a Justice League film with Christian Bale's tortured Batman and Henry Cavill's navel-gazing Superman suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a completely unheralded Martian Manhunter, who's nipped round for a coffee to show off holiday snaps of his recent trip to Pluto.
(11) "Solar wind, and the possible impact by a Pluto-sized body is thought to have stripped much of the initial early atmosphere from the planet, and since then the atmosphere has developed as a balance between volcanic injection and loss to space."
(12) He asked for a trade in 2007, saying he’d “go play on Pluto right now” in lieu of suiting up in the purple and gold.
(13) Holst wrote The Planets during the first world war and before the discovery of Pluto, the "ninth planet", in 1930.
(14) The ones with the yoga lessons, the constant preaching about saving the rainforest, the overly earnest attempts to paint himself as some kind of eco-warrior when his carbon footprint must be the size of Pluto?
(15) He and co-writer (and director) Robert Zemeckis started drafting in 1980 – initially the time machine was not a car but a fridge (changed in case children started clambering into them), Doc's pet Einstein was an ape, not a dog, and the title was Spaceman from Pluto.
(16) Eddie Murphy's recent career has been plagued by flops but The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) is by far the biggest – it made just $7m, a net loss of $144.1m (£93m).
(17) Robin Yassin-Kassab is the author of The Road From Damascus, a novel, and co-author with Leila Al-Shami of the forthcoming book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, January 2016)
(18) Patrick McCabe read from his novel Breakfast On Pluto.
(19) Breakfast On Pluto But he's undercut this boyish charm to brilliant effect in some bad-guy roles, such as plane thriller Red Eye, or as Batman's Scarecrow.
(20) Eddie Murphy had one in the early noughties with Showtime, The Adventures of Pluto Nash and I Spy, and then all over again with Meet Dave, Imagine That, and A Thousand Words, which seems careless.
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.