abyss

"Each new format seems to bring us closer and closer to that abyss."

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

This whole Western Conference semifinal series against these defending champions has been a lose-lose proposition for the Lakers, who are now down 3-0 and staring into the elimination abyss in Game 4 on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

"There is no such situation; instead, what we realise is that the country is going further into an abyss."

From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026

Elsewhere, “Navalny” filmmaker Daniel Roher also tries to look at the bright side in his latest, “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” but only after gazing into the abyss.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

As though he is about to ride in some black chariot at a forty-five-degree angle down into the abyss.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

After all the abysses we’ve looked into over the course of the book, that’s not much of a blueprint for optimism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023

It’s full of dire scenarios, deep bass abysses and floating soprano refrains.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2020

Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa.

From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2019

Thou alone know'st the splendor of winter, Mid thy snow-silvered, hushed precipices, Hearing crags of green ice groan and splinter, And then plunge down the muffled abysses In the quiet of midnight.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell