Karan Mahajan

American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.

Indian Novelist

David McCullough

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

American Historian

Martin Jacques

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

British Journalist

John Malkovich

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

American Actor

Len G. Murray

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

Scottish Lawyer

Diablo Cody

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

American Writer

Often used metaphorically to describe a very low or unsuccessful period in life or business.

Metaphorical Use

'Nadir' in non-astronomy contexts doesn't refer to a physical location, but to an abstract sense of being very low.

Not Literal

Carries a strong negative emotional weight, suggesting deep pessimism or failure.

Emotional Weight

Used scientifically to describe a precise astronomical position directly opposite the zenith.

Astronomical Specificity

Relevant in contexts related to observing or studying the night sky and celestial events.

Observational Context

The term has specific technical use in astronomy and might not be understood outside scientific contexts.

Technical Usage

 if he knew that what he'd done was against the law I did anything the nadir you know what it in boonton a ton ami del maguey wipe it would be a lie if I said I didn't know if I let it slip wet and oily moody an Elohim wallet thought my wife was pregnant at the time so she told me to bring some eggs home if I

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 gets more and more and more and more famous except if you look in German you live in German you see something completely bizarre something you pretty much never see which is he cut becomes extremely famous and then all of a sudden plummets going through a nadir

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 except if you look in German. If you look in German, you see something completely bizarre, something you pretty much never see, which is he becomes extremely famous and then all of a sudden plummets, going through a nadir between 1933 and 1945,

 He actually met his nadir when he decreed that all school children had to buy their school uniforms from his, a company that he owned. And when they had... a rebellion, when there was a protest, he had a hundred of them arrested,

Nadir

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