bottomlessness

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Occasionally, he makes an arrest for indecent exposure or public lewdness; toplessness is legal, but bottomlessness isn't.

One single step beyoud the strict legal limits, and I am back on my red-hot throne, in that pit whose bottomlessness I shall heartily envy.

One has to invoke, he writes, "the boundary between physics and metaphysics in trying the characterize this strange experience of deepening into bottomlessness" with each new reading or performance.

Thoreau was confident he could distinguish once and for all between nature (the pond, which he determined had a depth of exactly 102 feet) and culture (the "mud and slush of opinion" about its bottomlessness).

There must be something monstrous, methinks, in a vision of the sea bottom from over some bank a thousand miles from the shore, more awful than its imagined bottomlessness; a drowned continent, all livid and frothing at the nostrils, like the body of a drowned man, which is better sunk deep than near the surface.

In his besotted, passionate new book about contemporary Shakespeare studies, "The Shakespeare Wars," the literary journalist Ron Rosenbaum sets out to do what my teacher tried and failed to do: explain and transmit a sense of ravishment, "unbearably pleasurable," brought forth by the "bottomlessness" of Shakespeare's writings.