Definition of "abysses" []

• Plural form of abyss. (noun)

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• ""Driving Miss Daisy" ought not to be as good as it is, for it marches repeatedly to the brink of the twin abysses of preachiness and sentimentality."
• "One of the most arresting "truths" that emerge, like silvery fish, at the end of the line of this Fisher in the abysses is the "truth" that any kind of departure from the Normal may become a means of mystic illumination."
• "If we are led up to none of the enkindled summits of the soul, and plunged into none of its abysses, that is no reason why we should fail to be struck by the pale flame of strenuous self-possession, or touched by the ingenuousness and simplicity of the speaker's accents."