“There seemed a gulf impassable between them.”
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.”
“It is fear that turns minor difference into major, that makes the gulf between ethnicities into a distinction between species, between human and non-human.”
“There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.”
“The air between them seemed to accumulate energy.”
“There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.”