Nautical measures

Usage examples of depths.

Surfaces can be seen but depths must be interpreted, and in that interpretation, you and I can be mistaken, and thus some sort of the hermeneutics of suspicion will always accompany us into the depths.

I believe, a million years of physical dominance rumbling from the depths, and not one of them likes what she hears.

From the depths, it cries out to gods no longer there, searches for a meaning not yet disclosed, still to be incarnated.

Die-hard materialists can have these experiences as easily as purebred idealists, and both are completely stunned into awestruck silence: the depths of the Mystery are disclosing themselves, and a muted mind must only bend in reverential awe.

Plotinus to Hegel, from Asanga to Aurobindo, from Schelling to Shankara, from Abhinavagupta to the Lankavatara Sutraare all attempts to take into account that the depths of the higher structural potentials are already present but not seen.

With no depths to be accessed, there are only surfaces to calculate: the more, the merrier.

System of Naturelook beneath the surfaces, look into the depths or heightsand you are not only guilty of pride but doomed to wretched unhappiness.

Divine, and thus participates in the depths of the All, embracing Each as a perfect manifestation of the One.

Descended worldviewa world where there are no depths to be interpreted, only surfaces to be seen.

The pump, at deeper depths, would suck the water overboard and allow the space to be filled with air.

There was no target ship in the vicinity to vaporize, just endless depths of ocean water.

I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit, right through to the very depths of your soul.

Seated on the poop, Ned Land and I were chatting of one thing and another as we looked at this mysterious sea, whose great depths had up to this time been inaccessible to the eye of man.

When this stranger fixed upon an object, his eyebrows met, his large eyelids closed around so as to contract the range of his vision, and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened by distance, as if he pierced those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes, and as if he read the very depths of the seas.

Plunged in the depths of the waters, it belonged no longer to earth: this silence was dreadful.