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Example sentences for: abyss

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And even though the film is full of laughs, the jokes hover on the edge of the abyss: This is a world in which lurid colors and extravagant gestures are means of filling the void.
To impute such sacrifices to a desire for speed is not only a misinterpretation of the evidence but a curious thing to say, for those who are in a hurry are scarcely likely to stop everything, pick up this (or any other book) to check something, and then resume their headlong plunge into the solecistic abyss.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta said Primakov is going without loss of face because he is already recognized as the man who saved Russia from an abyss.
In Volume 1 , Cook wonderfully described two of them, Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, as beginning a "slow slide toward that dangerous abyss they considered neutrality."
Who whisperedthe old names for love to this earthand anger and ownership as it openedthe abyss of their future at their feet?