In this age of advanced gene technology, the true abyss of renunciation from which we speak “I” is only now becoming obvious to us.
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Big names use their longevity, time-tested popularity, and a fat purse to create a monopoly and call the market shot — and having earned proprietary eponyms, they push low-budget upcoming competitors into the abyss.
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But, Ali warns all that can change quickly if Anbar continues to crumble, “right now, we are looking into the Abyss.”
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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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But a few deer and mussels and a half dozen hills of squashes could not fill the abyss of the Indian appetite.
Hunting in Many Lands|Various
He seemed to see two genii seeking, the one to drag him towards heaven and the other towards the abyss.
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It is never too late to draw back from such an abyss of shame.
The Laughing Cavalier|Baroness Orczy
And the horror of that abyss into which he looked, flashing from his mind to my own, left me silent and helpless before him.
Cecilia de Nol|Lanoe Falconer
"We all have our pastimes," went on the marquis, deepening the abyss into which he was finally to fall.
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British Dictionary definitions for abyss
abyss
/ (əˈbɪs) /
noun
a very deep or unfathomable gorge or chasm
anything that appears to be endless or immeasurably deep, such as time, despair, or shame
hell or the infernal regions conceived of as a bottomless pit
Word Origin for abyss
C16: via Late Latin from Greek abussos bottomless (as in the phrase abussos limnē bottomless lake), from a-1 + bussos depth