Sentence examples for At the abyss from inspiring English sources
Gold described West Ham's situation as "looking at the abyss".
Now we are staring at the abyss of civil war.
Book publishing always seems to be at the abyss.
Now we are staring at the abyss of civil war. 1. TRAPDOOREarly morning, March , 2012
"We were at the abyss," said John Nolan, the Saratoga County Republican chairman.
Coward's genius was in skating over bright and brittle surfaces while winking at the abyss beneath.
Dec. 5 at 6 30 and Dec. 8 at 3: "The Abyss" and "Towards the Light" (1919, Holger Madsen; silent).
That deleveraging that took place rapidly in the fourth quarter of 2008, and I think the Federal Reserve, to a lesser extent, the ECB, have been very successful at avoiding the abyss.
Rufus Norris's 2006 revival of this Kander & Ebb classic blew me away with its dark, fiercely energised and full-frontal vision of Weimar Berlin as a society gyrating its crotch at the edge of the abyss – at once a drug-fuelled hotbed of rampant, polymorphous perversity and a fertile seedbed for Nazism whose rise emerged in pointed conjunction with the spread of neurasthenic kinkiness.
Their faces look back at us from the abyss.
Yet even at the pinnacle of autonomy, he hovers at the edge of the abyss: a man yet still a boy, a law unto himself yet, to his credit. of "woman's tenderness" in the face of the wife and son he has tried in vain to banish from his heart.
