He was a dinosaur who, instead of crawling off to some distant tar pit to die, took an entire industry with him into the abyss. |
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The tyrants, who would have disgraced the society of gods and men, were thrown headlong into the Tartarean abyss. |
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The first dealt with Canada's creeping demographic abyss, the so-called baby bust. |
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But already, they have caught up with the Dutch in their freefall into the moral abyss. |
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Alongside Faye Dunaway, Rourke trashed his glamorous image to drag the audience into an abyss of dipsomania. |
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Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss. |
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Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color. |
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And perhaps that new glow about the city is the lost sense of pride emerging from the deep abyss it fell into. |
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Instead, we have had the usual farting around, and now here we are with 1,000 people staring into the abyss. |
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He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober. |
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With equal imperception it bent down and down, closer and closer to the lake waters, murky with the samba of subaqueous weeds and the abyss. |
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Making my hair turn gray were scenes of daredevils leaping across yawning gorges, hanging by one hand and an axe over the abyss. |
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The tremor in his voice reflected a man looking over the edge of a very deep abyss. |
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So I end that 2 o'clock in the morning mood on the abyss actually dancing, just beginning to tremor with dance. |
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Mankind, divided and confused, still hesitates, vacillates like a sleepwalker on the edge of an abyss. |
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There was a horrible sensation of plunging into the abyss, falling, falling as swiftly as a falcon in stoop. |
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Standing in this forest, in the shadows of the mountains, at the edge of the oceanic abyss, I can't help thinking about Judas Iscariot. |
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January was dimming into the equally cold, bleak abyss of New England weather that was February. |
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Then suddenly he felt a blinding hit at the base of his skull, which sent him back into a black abyss. |
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Every circumstance in church life offers an opportunity for the forces of the abyss to disrupt and destroy. |
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No one ever goes to the abyss because it's too wide and deep and creepy and cold. |
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We covered our faces to shield ourselves from the nausea and traversed deep into the abyss. |
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It's a picture of all-knowing Newton, the defining scientific mind of world history, staring into the abyss of unknowing. |
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After a gasped curse, a word that a six year old shouldn't know, she picked herself up and sprinted deeper into the dark abyss. |
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The vindictive politics of the period may have pushed the nation over the abyss, but at least the cadres were squeaky clean. |
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The only thing that stands between us and the deep abyss of arbitrary executive power is the Rule of Law. |
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The abyss was stagnant, a body of water under massive pressure, barely warmer than freezing and utterly without light. |
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The dark abyss of the mind and its complexes and obsessions must be conquered. |
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Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss. |
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There is an abyss between such rhetoric and the world we actually live in, an abyss called power. |
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What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us! |
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An abyss separates those who have served and sacrificed their blood for our freedom and those of us who have reaped the benefit. |
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The result, when successful, is a welcome bridging of the sometimes yawning abyss between writer and critic. |
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It sets these individuals on a separate plane, creating an unnatural abyss between the organizer and the people for whom one works. |
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Although there is an abyss of difference between the means of the two campaigns, there are also a few notable similarities. |
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In the late twentieth century, this schism would finally open into an abyss. |
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Staring into the seemingly deep and empty abyss some imagine enormous sharks or the legendary giant squid. |
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There are 170 miles and an abyss of sectarianism separating Glasgow and Inverness. |
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The cultural abyss had grown too wide to be crossed using traditional methods. |
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There remains an abyss between man and God, but this abyss inspires wonder and praise. |
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There shall beam forth shining rays from Thee, the true and fontal light, into the abyss of my heart. |
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The abyss between the generic business and the tight, small world of the famous classified growths is vast. |
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Like Ignatieff, McEwan explores the abyss between middle-class lives shrouded in material comfort and the demands of sudden human suffering. |
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There is, at first glance, an abyss between saying that one has had an experience of God and trusting that one can experience God in one's life. |
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These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may. |
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And all the while people suffer, the abyss between rich and poor yawns, and exploitation continues as the bitterest fact of everyday life. |
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He navigates through that abyss that few artists dare to explore, culling from the far reaches of jazz, lounge, disco, and even classical music. |
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A rare sight in the streets of Monrovia, Liberians know only too well they've miraculously been pulled back from the edge of the abyss. |
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What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction? |
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I may enjoy dancing on the edge of the abyss, but I will never ever topple in, comprendi? |
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Suddenly I felt like I was at the edge of the abyss again, with nothing preventing me from falling and falling. |
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It anchors itself by gaining purchase on the pitted, rough limestone, and then stretches the upper half of its body into the air of the abyss. |
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The presence of gold and silver in your portfolio will insure that you will emerge from the abyss with your capital intact. |
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Connolly drags you screaming to the edge of the abyss, then calmly pushes you in. |
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But as soon as he did so, the world turned and he was swimming downwards, down, down into the deep, dark abyss. |
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It was a lonely walk, deep into an abyss that beckoned like a black hole, a fallen star. |
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Horses rear in terror as the young Countess enters St Germain's palace and screams as she seems to be swallowed into an abyss of darkness. |
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On the other hand, because of its nature as an abyss, it's an illimitable source for the plagiarist. |
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And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow. |
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We slipped into the clear, seemingly bottomless aquamarine abyss to snorkel. |
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Starting at a climax and retreating from there, a logy middle section evaporates into a yawning abyss exactly five minutes wide. |
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The real abyss separating Deutscher from modern historiography is a moral one. |
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Glide into a deep blue abyss alive with bright small fish species, moray eels and madrepores. |
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After the second world war, the gap between audiences and avant-garde composers opened into an unbridgeable abyss. |
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For the second year in succession, Carlisle are staring into the abyss of relegation from the Football League. |
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This imperishable writer's works resonated among the Chinese populace, living in an abyss of suffering at that time, winning him great popularity. |
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And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship. |
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But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God. |
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And when I made the abyss, which had a giant wave scene in it, those stopped. |
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At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body. |
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To me, death was a mysterious, dark, horrible thing that would catch you and drag you down into a deep abyss, away from everything and everyone you loved. |
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Once I was passing along the side of a deep abyss that seemed to spiral down forever and a strong wind started to blow, as if it were trying to push me in. |
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The ship turned sideways, with its right side overlooking the deep abyss at the center of the Maelstrom, slowly traveling in the water's currents. |
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He figured that the deep abyss he was falling into must have a bottom. |
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His attempts to conceal these secrets push him deeper into the very abyss. |
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When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation. |
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The companions walked in a huddled group as each of them kept looking over their shoulders and deep into the dark abyss, unable to close their eyes even for a second. |
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These conditions create the possibility for a new political force to arise quickly and fill the abyss between the ruling regime and popular aspirations. |
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The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged. |
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This created the abyss between the real world and the supernal world. |
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Admittedly, there is a huge abyss between thought and words. |
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And it felt as if leukaemia was nudging me towards the edge of the abyss. |
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He succeeds in part here, but there's the sense that he could have gone closer to the edge of the abyss, to show what it is really like to take the Road To Perdition. |
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They then hang over the gallery rail and stare into the abyss. |
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Reluctantly, my left hand on the railless wall on that side, my right hand extended out into the blank abyss in the other direction, I began the descent. |
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Our lights barely reached the top of this dramatically sculpted abyss, and we sat in awe for a good ten minutes just peering up into its lofty heights. |
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A cynic might question the use of religion as a landing pad when one is tumbling from a place of power into the abyss of iniquity. |
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Fortunately for civilization, none of these conflicts, with the possible exception of the Cuban missile crisis, pushed the world to the abyss of global thermonuclear war. |
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Unaware of their own strength, they teeter on the edge of the victim abyss. |
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In the month since elections produced not one but two presidents, the country has teetered on the abyss of violence. |
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If the water is low and the wind favourable, they will be treated to a magnificent view of the falls and the yawning abyss below the Zambezi Bridge. |
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To the top of the crumbling Gormenghastian edifice we climbed, leaned backwards over the abyss and landed a big old smacker on the legendary stone. |
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The abyss is not an empty void, but full of nature's wonderful mysteries. |
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Then time seemed to become an abyss a perpetual fall that would never end. |
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Out of the abyss came mafia mobs, large-scale bribery and corruption. |
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Slowly the sand crept over him and he gave in to the cocooned abyss. |
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There are seven movements, the first six slow, sparely scored, and pregnant with anticipation before the finale explodes into a furious fugal dash to the abyss. |
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This means the descension of this country into an economic abyss. |
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If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution. |
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Biologists looked into the abyss and the abyss looked back, with lots of little compound krill eyes. |
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Theatre of the absurd denies rationality, and embraces the inevitability of falling into the abyss of the human condition. |
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An incomplete or incorrect URL can leave you lost in an abyss of unsuitable sites. |
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They are doubts from the abyss that drag their cold and slithery bodies across the soul. |
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Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth. |
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The vista is fine, with all of the major fell groups well seen and views down into the abyss of Deepdale only yards away. |
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We were contemplating Urd Werdande Skuld of 1983, which shows a vast, vaulted passageway receding into an abyss, a fire flickering at its centre. |
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Hollywood, too, became enraptured by the exotic abyss of Stanleyville. |
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Corny Littmann is the openly gay former president who led the club back from the abyss before quitting this summer having brought them back to the top. |
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Diving for the best part of 40 minutes I was treated to an overload of colour and beauty, from tiny clown fish to towering sea fans, reaching out into the blue abyss. |
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Blues were staring into the abyss before Caddis popped up to nod in from a yard after Bolton defender Tim Ream blocked a Nikola Zigic header on the line. |
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However, ecosystem structure and function at the deep seafloor have historically been very poorly studied because of the size and remoteness of the abyss. |
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The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital. |
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Gandalf faces the Balrog, and both of them fall into the abyss. |
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From here ground falls away into the profound abyss of upper Wasdale. |
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We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss. |
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It can take you to faraway places, probing the ice caps of Antarctica, studying the tribesmen of Amazonia or diving to the depths of the oceanic abyss. |
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Conservationists say the combination of tropical islands, unspoiled coral reefs and adjacent oceanic abyss makes the area a biodiversity hotspot of global importance. |
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