abyss

While everyone around her is losing their heads, her Taverner can look directly into the roiling abyss and calculate a way, if not to fix it, then certainly to cover it up.

The UN warned last week that Myanmar was "sinking into an abyss of human suffering".

"There's a reason why it's called Alive. We came back to life. This project has pulled many of us out of the abyss."

The place I grew up, once ringing with songs and laughter, had mutated into a black abyss strewn with the wiry corpses of oak trees.

“I think we all have to walk ourselves back from this abyss that we’ve looked over in our politics and work together to build a better future for this country.”