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Sentence Examples The mix is astonishing, from the kitsch to the majestic, from the grotesque to the sublime. It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime. The closest this sublime chimera ever came to being realized was during the days when his body lay on its bier. There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights. Here we have medieval Augustinian evangelicalism at its most pure and sublime. Coltrane was also a sublime melodist, who in later life became obsessed with the untapped possibilities of rhythm. A sublime combination of a luscious honey and apricot succulence with crisp, cleaned-edged acidity explodes onto your palate. At pressures substantially below normal atmospheric pressure, more substances can be made to sublime. Although neither show lives up to its hype, both include some of the most sublime paintings by two of art history's big names. Despite the disastrous night prior, Devin still dwelt in a sublime state, mesmerised by tantalizing blue eyes and a rosebud mouth. It can be obtained from mispickel by heating, which causes the arsenic to sublime and leaves the iron sulfide. The result is a sublime and surreal saga of self-discovery and personal growth, of existential doubt and doubtful existences. I simply served fig halves with plain mascarpone cheese with a few fresh grinds of black pepper, and it made indeed a sublime dessert. The snow-capped mountain ranges, the sheer sensuousness of the sublime peaks and their changing hues provide a serene touch to the exhibition. British romanticism transformed the landscape aesthetic towards seeing mountains as sublime and picturesque. The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance. The scrums are going forward, opposition scrums are going back under sheer power and sublime technique. The encounter with Persians and Arabs infused a new vitality into Indian music, resulting in the sublime form of khayal. The real opposite of the sublime is, of course, the intransigently banal and commonsensical. Visitors cannot help marvelling at the sublime natural landscape, deeply enchanted by the tranquil and leisurely life of the village. Show More Sentences These housing projects are cruelly juxtaposed amid the sublime beauty that surrounds Nuuk. When Beethoven is out of fashion, that is because people are afraid of drama and of sublime emotions. The park also presents a curious mix of the sublime and ridiculous, and sometimes, quite bizarre, so you really do need a receptive mind. He dropped one scoring pass and shortly after the full-back went from the sublime to the ridiculous in a matter of minutes. Themes varied from the sublime to the ridiculous but citizens supported it in force. And given the opportunity for sublime spectacle, shipwreck was a main-stay of visual culture. They may not all image it directly, but a sense of space and the sublime seems to find its way into the visual art on some level. They are pictorially beautiful, but I think they lacked the sense of the sublime grandeur that they were supposed to evoke. Utzon is, of all the great modern architects, the least afraid to admit a sense of the sublime into his architecture. I've talked with many expats and their suggestions run from the sublime to the subversive. While Turner was a complex and eclectic artist, much of his work is suffused with a Romantic sense of nature's sublime power and wonder. These higher, most truly profound realms of sublime human emotional experience are closed to the monkey. It is, however, perceived as pure and religious, mythical and, in a banal sense, sublime. And hearing it played on the radio by the finest exponents remains a sublime experience for thousands. Golden light flooding up the valley creates the sense of the sublime so often invoked by Bierstadt. When we relate this reverence to our experience of the sublime, we have a sense, however fleeting, of the transcendental. If the latter, because the artwork is a representation rather than a direct experience, the sublime could be mitigated. The distanced position of the spectator obviates the emotional experience of the sublime. Come and enjoy a mixture of sublime acoustic and pop music, punk, electronic wizardy, hard-rock and funk. The bit where Shaun arrives to rescue his mum from his soon-to-be-zombified dad is just sublime. Show More Sentences Mary inquired in order that we might learn from the angel concerning that conception which is a sublime matter beyond understanding. A signature dessert is coffee and doughnuts, only the coffee cup and spoon are made of chocolate and the doughnuts are tiny and sublime. That crisp moon was so beautiful, so sublime, so utterly perfect, that it ordered my thoughts and gentled me into a deep rest till morning. The most famous kick that Cantona ever delivered wasn't a sublime chip or a match-winning penalty, but a two-footed karate kick. With their silvery outlines and flashes of colour, the drawings have a sublime grandeur. It may be stranger and more sublime to hear a polyphonic impression of George Michael's voice than to listen to the real thing one more time. Why subject yourself to an irksome book when so many sublime ones are available? The initial twelve-minute aerial dance found them on a rope suspended from the ceiling, executing arabesques while spinning with sublime grace. Some examples of those that do sublime readily are carbon dioxide and iodine. But where can you go to find sublime destinations and premier lodging when you really want to go first-class? Nothing more need be added because, by inference, nothing could be more sublime. His skyward-looking subject matter suggests an indirect tribute to painters who used the form to enfold the sublime. All in all, though, this CD contains provocative and often sublime pianism. My favourite ever piece of digital art is an excellent example of this kind of sublime infinity. Nuclear detonations invariably and disturbingly raise issues about beauty and the sublime, as well as a multitude of other vital issues. Jenkins ability to wield these performers into ensemble and groupings at moments touched the sublime. But the feeling of sublime indebtedness, defining what is expressly human about humanity, is larger than religion. The sublime sounds of this local jazz ensemble will make you stop and listen closely. It was flanked by a sublime gratin dauphinois with a cheesy, sabayon-like crust. The fact it is priced at less than half the going rate for a CD single makes it both sublime and ridiculous. Show More Sentences Warming from the sun causes frozen organic compounds on a comet's surface to sublime, or vaporize. The garden's structure and proportion are flawless, the colour combinations sublime. Hikers as well as idlers are particularly blessed, with sublime day-walks and longer trails soaring into the White Mountains. However, the majority of the film was smooth, multi-layered, and tight, like sublime lyrics over a hypnotic beat. In An Allegory, for example, the composition invokes the sublime order of classical art. The cod was excellent, as was the superb oyster, and the explosion of sweet, bright flavour from the cherry tomatoes was sublime. We learn, for instance, how his wife played a crucial role in the composition of the sublime trio at the end of Der Rosenkavalier. Yet much of what we call poetry consists of trite or false ideas in sublime language. Handelian arias were either brilliant vocal displays or sustained sublime showstoppers. Tucked down a Palma side street, the hotel combines a reserved, almost buttoned down elegance, with sublime food. It offered some sublime contests and changes of fortune and also some monumental individual efforts from both teams. In a sense, Watkins's images blaze a trail for the tourist at the expense of the adventurer and hollow out the sublime, leaving only spectacle. And it goes without saying the bathrooms were sublime, with Moorish influences also detected here. My mother used to render a sublime schmaltz, drawing forth globules of fat and the skin thereunto attached from well-bred chickens. In Hegelian aesthetics, the sacred art of the sublime can only be the art of poetry. Fashion is the sublime deformation of nature, an unceasing and repeated effort to reshape it. Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses. The Kantian concern with the beautiful was eclipsed by his notion of the sublime. From the sublime you can go to the ridiculous, such as fishing for blue-water pelagics off wind-surfers and jet-skis, as they do in Hawaii. The sublime views are definitely worth the climb but sadly, the further up we go the more my vision is blurring. Show More Sentences It is a songwriting career of underachievement perforated by sublime moments. Frenzied moments of impulsive violence and sexuality lend the movie the sublime naughtiness of a hand-cranked skin flick. His goal was struck low past Pauric Kelly after Ian Fitzgerald slid through a sublime ball to find the Arles-Kilcruise man unmarked. This is where the smart money goes for gentle breaks savoured over sublime afternoon latte and delicate cakes. Here is a typically maddening and illuminating specimen of Pasolini's sublime, crackpot antimodernism. The young Ali was pure boxing brilliance, backing up his bravado with breathtaking speed of hand and foot and sublime skills. Four and eight years ago, the Kiwis were producing sublime attacking rugby that was unstoppable in full flow. Now, recording under the moniker Microbunny, Okada creates sublime atmospherics that would no doubt please his mentor. There are conditions under which some materials can either be caused to sublime instead of melting, or liquefy instead of subliming. Our waiter brought us a basket of fresh baguette, warm onion rolls and some sublime spiced, herbed breadsticks that were baked on the premises. In keeping the focus strictly on sublime songcraft, the Kings of Convenience have drafted a love letter to solid pop tradition. There is something vertiginously sublime about contemplating timescales that are exponentially longer than our own lives. By implication, the realist who meets force with force without vexation or anxiety is the one who fails to experience the sublime. In the postmodern text, experiencing the sublime by vicariously transcending the self is an object of satire. I refer to it as the sublime, in a Wordsworthian sort of sense, entering everyday living. In great vintages their wines are sublime and in lesser years forward and delicious. But don't look for any sublime vistas or sweeping landscapes in this volume. The fantastic views, fresh air and amazing sky, plus the generous drams of whisky, combined to produce a truly sublime atmosphere. The nutmeg as Mills tried to shield the ball at the corner flag was a sublime example of justified arrogance. Fittingly, then, panic for theoreticians is not strictly a sublime emotion. Show More Sentences However, he has immense pace, is a cool and clinical finisher in one-on-one situations and has the ability to score sublime goals. If only the director trusted her audience, this could've been a sublime forage into the netherworld of the human psyche. His weighted return ball in the one-two with Goodman for the opening goal was sublime and set the tone for his afternoon's work. In the Upanishads, the veritable storehouse of Indian philosophy, the sublime and the mundane, occasionally even the ludicrous, co-exist. Yet this last, the cultivation of sublime indifference, may not be the easiest but the toughest way of all into the snob-free zone. His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory. New Orleans was a failure of down-and-dirty management as much or more than a failure of sublime leadership. So, the principle of the sublime depends upon, like Jeanne d' Arc, the sense of a lack of fear of immortality. It sounds simple, and it was, but washed down with red wine it was sublime. At the same time, Buddhas have the power to manifest themselves in a sublime celestial form in splendid paradises. And here we are, waterbussed to Academia for a sublime platter of Venetian antipasti. And the second book follows Bourdain as he criss-crosses the world sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre. This valley of hellish heat and human misery is also a place of stark, sublime beauty. In the ensuing furore, the arguments put forward on both sides have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. This is an unashamedly bombastic work but one cannot help being moved by the grandeur and sublime beauty of the piece. Relying on his emotions as a stimulus, Lepe's work is both sublime and intuitive. His final album is a masterpiece of raw emotions, sublime melodies, and achingly beautiful lyrics. The sublime jostled with the ridiculous for attention as Edmonton's Thespians donned their finest plumage to dazzle, bewilder and delight. I have heard and reviewed many great performances of this sublime work but this must take the cake for emotional intensity. Dazzling ingredients, such as liqueur, fresh raspberries and amaretti cookies, are what lift these sweets from simple to sublime. Show More Sentences From the sublime to the ridiculous and truly perplexing I thought I'd share them with you. It is imperative for the parents to cultivate good qualities and sublime norms so that the children may also mould in their hues right from their childhood. The Renaissance repertoire ranges from the whacky to the sublime, and it's possible that we gave some pieces their first Scottish performances in hundreds of years. Ragtime was as sophisticated as Stravinsky, Van Vechten asserted, blues singer Clara Smith as sublime an artist as any opera diva. When I hit the whammy bar, it was like it the most sublime experience. Since this nature is rational and spiritual, reason is understood to be both ratiocinative and contemplative, but contemplation is the most sublime function of the soul. With a mid-engined layout, a fat tyre at each corner and your own bulk almost as low as it can go, the weight distribution is perfect, and the handling truly sublime. If it has a mouthpiece or a reed, Al can produce sublime music on it, often switching effortlessly between trumpet, saxophone and clarinet on the same gig. We sit and he orders sake and yakitori for the 3 of us, and this sake is absolutely sublime. Delicious, melt in the mouth, like drinking liquid velvet. The arguments for genetically modified organisms that have been dinned into us for 15 years are based on an almost sublime misreading of the world's food problems. Some of my favorite albums in recent memory used exotic instruments, indecipherable lyrics, and amorphous structures to create a sublime aura of the unreal. He can do most things on the golf course drive it for miles, hit the most precise of irons shots, pitch and chip with the most sublime touches, putt like an angel. From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note. Then, we have the pulse-pounding Captain Phillips, the sublime Nebraska, and the insane The Wolf of Wall Street. And credit for that goes to the sublime Jean Stapleton, the actress who brought Edith Bunker so vividly to life for so long. The view is sublime, and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bareheaded, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them. The baroque of Purcell, Bach and Handel is never going to stick you to your seat a la Ludwig but there were times when I though I would levitate so sublime was the music. The event was a humdinger of a house-warming, with sublime moments and a mood that veered between a classical music concert and a beery knees-up at a wedding. He is by far the most sublime player in the world today, despite his semi-final loss in the Australian Open, but topping Pete Sampras's silver collection is a long way off. All of this is illuminated by the sublime radiance of the midnight sun. Show More Sentences The body is the sign not of sublime animation betokening inspiration, and thus of legitimating truth and divine authenticity, but a means of emptying truth from the image. Putting metaphor and other tropes in a rather remote place, he propounded another aspect of figurative language as absolutely essential to the sublime. In another, we upload our brains, convert them into software, and experience sublime adventures in virtual worlds. But if I ever harboured doubts about why I stayed with the project for this long, then they were blown away completely by the sublime moment last Wednesday. Surprisingly unconfined by this genre, he continues to produce startling new works that offer a range of effects, from the self-referential to the humorous to the sublime. Jean-Francois Lyotard famously defined postmodernism in terms of the sublime and posited it as presenting what is unpresentable, excessive, regardless of order and perfection. It's difficult to do justice to this sublime combination of smoked fish, tangy cheese and beautifully unsmoked bacon, but the result was stunning. When he was at his most sublime, he was unstoppable and irresistible. We'll take just our day packs up these ridges during our seven-day circuit of the mountain, when lingering snowfields add drama, and wildflowers are at their most sublime. Instead, I embarked on a vinous calling to seek out and taste the great wines of Burgundy and the sublime but tantalising magic of the Pinot Noir grape. Oslo is a vast city, sprawling up the sides of its bowl from the old Danish centre into the hills and forests of a gentle, though still sometimes almost sublime landscape. I felt like Alice through the looking glass, enjoying the sublime sea's surreal realm, a marine dominion ruled by stingrays, dolphins, Napoleons, moray eels. And finally, the sublime constantly mixes with the ordinary. The works of the Orphic artist must simultaneously give a pure aesthetic pleasure, a structure which is self-evident, and a sublime meaning, that is, a subject. The sublime is not primarily a matter of reflection and comparison. Where can one who rejects the alternative of the sublime horror or the ridiculous degradation seek the image of a man with a reason to fight for a this-worldly ideal? In each religion we discover the interweaving of the sublime and the ridiculous, the liberatory and the oppressive, the radical and the conventional. The sublime transformed itself into feminine agency, the ability to occupy a space in an active way so as not to be utterly overwhelmed by the sublime effect of nature. Echoing Cole's sense of the sublime, geologists saw the landscape as a dynamic expression of inhuman forces operating over vast stretches of time. Her athleticism was superb and her cross-court backhand was sublime. Show More Sentences There is a sublime sense of entitlement around these three young women. With his hauteur and chequered disciplinary record, as well as his sublime talent, he dominated the emerging celebrity culture of English football. We used to introduce heroic figures with sublime intentions to Chinese youth as role models, but the extra-grandeur of the figures was too much for them to believe. Her demeanor was sublime to behold in the torchlight that glowed upon her. And the warm sweet-potato pie with Chantilly cream is sublime. Swimming in the clear, fresh, subterranean water was sublime. He is moody, brilliant, sulky, a cheat, and intermittently sublime. This debut EP features six cuts and is sure to appeal to all those who love their music chilled to the point of sublime down-tempo sophistication. Tourists, inspired by the Picturesque movement, started coming in the 18th century, peering at sublime mountain scenery through their Claude glasses. Although I really don't like Jazz, I do like the way Gershwin uses the jazz idiom to create sublime music, that sounds fresh and modern eighty years after it was written. The combination of the setting and the architecture is sublime and the best description I know is, appropriately, in John Hemming's classic, The Conquest of the Incas. Deliver intelligent and incisive points, well made and expressed with sublime brevity, with great import for the organisation and relevant to all present. He could mix it physically in games if needed but he was most comfortable when given the space and capacity to show his full range of passes and sublime skills. The postmodern emphasis on sublimity has tended to stress the sublime as an unreachable beyond, contemplation of which induces a pathos of finitude in any human subject. The sublime landscape of the American South West is being slowly corroded by a tide of faux Spanish Colonial dream homes and equally banal commercial development. That said, it's a very good engine, which is coupled to a sublime gearbox. I could imagine the sublime Rita Heywood or Julia Roberts both have been regular visitors to the island over the years dallying over a shore side breakfast. My abiding memory of their performances of these two great works is the Quartet's total dedication to the task of recreating the sublime ideas of both composers. It is deep time that opens a new view of nature, which if it lacks the Divine fiat, the miraculous and providential, is no less sublime in its own way. It deserves a golf clap for providing sublime hi-fi liquidity. Show More Sentences The Scots, however, had lost the dash and elan of the first half, and it took a sublime one-two from Taylor and Paterson to strike the killer blow. It remains, indeed, a sublime mystery that Bach's exalted creative ideals appear to have been so little constrained by the limited means at his disposal. He poured his heart out in soaring songs of praise, in searing prayers, in sublime thanksgiving, in words infinitely more exalted than any I could conjure up. The Black Rock Desert is a place of sublime expansive space. It is, certainly, painfully lovely, achingly gorgeous, exasperatingly lyrical, sumptuously spellbinding, ethereally hypnotic, and, above all, transcendentally sublime. Indeed, his sublime, angular downstrokes follow the smooth confidence of his basslines, and he sings with his downcast delivery and dramatic flair. Stewart was not just a do-gooder, though, he was also a superb driver able to test his sublime one-time team-mate Jim Clark. Her silky, sexy voice lends itself perfectly to crossover club throbbers such as Take It Like A Man and the sublime I Get Around. Politically incorrect, lowest-common-denominator comedy and body horror humor can be sublime when the timing is sharp and the staging inspired. The Villa Lante garden is one of the most sublime creations of the Italian villa in the landscape, completed in the 17th century. Using the rhetoric of the sublime, Wollstonecraft explores the relationship between the self and society. The pistachio mixed with the tartness of the raspberries and the sweetness of the panna cotta was sublime. Its exquisite mixture of the sybaritic, the sublime and the sinfully delicious make it the nation's premiere destination for oenophiles. In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another. Many of the artists exhibited here portray the synaesthetic confusion of trench combat as something approaching the sublime. In France, sublime descriptions of Celtic landscape were found in the works of Jacques Cambry. Now, when a movie franchise is said to have nuked the fridge, it has officially gone from the sublime to the absurd. In the former case, it is the brand name of commodity culture, while in the latter it is the sublime name of High Art's aesthetic introjection. Nosh and Quaff is, I think, the only restaurant in Birmingham to serve the sublime Danish beer Mikkeller and the flavourful Crate lager. Minimalism argued that extreme simplicity could capture all of the sublime representation needed in art. Show More Sentences John Dryden, an early enthusiast, in 1677 began the trend of describing Milton as the poet of the sublime. But Ronaldo has dipped below his sublime best this season, often looking sulkier than Laughing Boy Berbatov. Elgar's sublime The Music Makers actually filled the bill perfectly, but George Dyson's Nebuchadnezzar seemed a rum choice. The highlight was his spellbindingly accurate crossfield pass that set-up to Robin van Persie for his sublime equaliser from a diving header. They serve some of the best traditional Greek food in the area, and we feasted al fresco on sublime keftedes and stifado. For figures from John Muir to Ansel Adams and beyond, the Sierra Nevada has long been a locus classicus of the American wilderness sublime. Wollstonecraft promotes subjective experience, particularly in relation to nature, exploring the connections between the sublime and sensibility. Julia Holter, May 2013 A sublime exercise in songcraft and charming a crowd. When that crust is nubbly and evenly browned, and the chicken meat is cooked through, the chicken is sublime. It began to attract increasing numbers of tourists, among them Romantics beguiled by the sublime landscapes of its mountains and alpinists who wanted to climb them. Joan's sophomore set is sublime, whether it's the moody piano lament of Honor Wishes, the angry political rant of Furious or the intimate soul-searching of To Be Lonely. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the ruined castles started to be considered picturesque and sublime, attracting visitors and artists from across a wide area. But Arsenal dug themselves out of that deep hole, forcing extra-time through Santi Cazorla's sublime free-kick and Laurent Koscielny's scruffier but equally valuable finish. With the exaggerated boobies and bawdiness of a drag queen and immunity to even remedial glamorization, Bette Midler exemplified the Jewess as sublime grotesque body. Kora player Ballake Sissoko and master cellist Vincent Segal present At Peace, a sublime selection of songs composed by Sissoko and produced by Vincent Segal. Atypically sublime first-half strike and a coolly-taken penalty two minutes from time took Ronaldo's goal tally this season to a remarkable 16 in 16 games this season. It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time. They closed with a brace of non-album hits like the attitude-laden Really Stupid and Way Behind Me's sublime mix of jangly indie pop and Spector girl group melodies. That iconic image of the fringed star holding a cigarette told you all you needed to know about the femme fatale in Tarantino's slick, sublime masterpiece, Pulp Fiction. The path that leads, where, hung sublime, And seen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite His wingy nerves to climb. Show More Sentences Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity. Jack Rodwell was penalised for handball, and Suarez stepped up to bend a sublime free kick low around the City wall, and inside Joe Hart's near post, from fully 30 yards. Elegant surroundings, immaculate grounds, and rugged meandering lava tide pools allow you to take in the wonders of raw Hawaii while enjoying sublime luxury. An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment. What happened to the Merry Band on its trip during the summer of 1964 ranged from the cosmically sublime to the ridiculous, from peak ecstasy to full-tilt satori. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. Lateral moraines stand high because they protect the ice under them from the elements, causing it to melt or sublime less than the uncovered parts of the glacier. The figure of the Divine Body of Jesus, which Blake develops as one of multeity in unity, thus becomes a sublime object, and, indeed, the sublime object of this poem. Examples from Classical Literature The remote and esthetically sublime is to be scientifically described and explained in terms of homely familiar events and forces. We cannot apprehend an object as sublime while we apprehend it as comparably, measurably, or finitely great. Such is the first and general sense of what is called the sublime, epic, allegoric, lyric substance. In imagery, there is that floridity that goes dazzling to the sublime with a brilliancy that is captivating. Genius explains all sublime achievements and genius is, so to speak, its own fons et origo. For an object to be called sublime it must be in opposition with our sensuousness. The halogen compounds of mercury, we should have mentioned, also sublime, the red iodide giving a yellow sublimate. There were all kinds of speculations, ranging from the mystically sublime to the broadly comical. The battle of Malvern Hill presented, by far, the most sublime spectacle I ever witnessed. If this piece be not Rais'd to the sublime, let me henceforth be stigmatiz'd as a reptile in the dust of mediocrity. A sublime utterance, full of humoursome matter, if it had been a time for humours. And how sublime the uprushing flood of hymnody from an assembly of men of like mind! The hypostatic moment is the sublime and transcendental answer which God has given to the problem. The answer of the son came with an immutable finality, the sublime faith of love. The stone pine and the cypress are typical instances of the sublime associated with the vertical in nature. The moaning of the wind in the great mountain gullies and cwms rendered the scene both awful and sublime. The outlines of strange and sublime revolutions are imprinted on her rock-ribbed bosom. Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime Jenkins, is made up of nothing else. The sublime plan which La Salle thus proposed, could only be carried into execution by the continuous labors of many years. Many of them surpass it in grandeur, and this belittlement of our globe shows a more sublime ideal of God. Show More Sentences The iron-hearted father, whose soul this sublime tragedy had-melted, sat at his side weeping like a child. In the side caon down which we worked our sublime and toilful way it was easy to see the work done. Flatness is a sublime quality in certain landscapes, just as rockiness is a sublime quality in others. It is a species of toadyism that is invariably omitted from textbooks on the sublime art of sycophancy. His opponent, Tezcatlipoca, was the most sublime figure in the Aztec Pantheon. Religion is not discovered, but self-created, a sort of sublime expediency. By the road of self-study, she reached that sublime height of metaphysics, the intellectual vision of the Absolute. Lofty mountains, sublime in their grandeur, overtower and surround this place, and its only exposure is southward toward the sun. I can only say that he had the sublime indifference of a Brahmin from the Ganges. High and long sustained, the sublime anthem rolled above the battle and its brutalism. One stanza of this canzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime. There is something sublime in your abnegation if, indeed, you have had no other client this week. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. From the sublime to the arabesque is but a semitone in his antic mind. If antiquarianism pored, genius too meditated in this sublime industry. It is sublime in its similes and exquisite in its antitheses. It lacks all that makes the skirts of Alps and Apennines sublime. She is an apologist of sublime lewdness, of emancipated human caninity. It is for them to put the capstone upon the sublime structure. But they were in a state of frenzy, perhaps because of forgotten vanities, and it made an exhibition of sublime recklessness. Show More Sentences The appearance of these relics of wild dissipation, however, had lifted Christie out of her sublime resignation. For a moment love had lifted him to sublime heights of honor and renunciation. They range from the sublime to the downright ridiculous, with rank covers of Great Balls Of Fire and Help. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime. We confess that we are edified by this simple, yet sublime and holy piety. Little wonder, because this is a sublime set of songs evoking the spirits of classic country, folk and swing. Life is working here as elsewhere, for some sublime purpose. Pugin, the sublime neo-gothicist and Ramsgate-based looter of wrecks is actually at www. I succeeded a man of the most sublime genius that ever upheld the sceptre of France. I would e'en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady. The beauty of the canyonlands, like all landscapes that inspire the emotion of the sublime, is its terribleness. How sublime was the stoppage of a mail as the index of rebellion. Great was his confidence, implicit, sublime, ineffably Irish. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. And with this selfish, there mingled a generous and sublime sentiment. Five minutes afterward the officer entered and the duke seemed to be immersed in the sublime combinations of chess. She ran away to indulge the inclination, leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to Harriet's share. Announce the sublime and solacing doctrine of theocratic equality. We called ourselves 'Holy Rus' because the most sublime, authentic, unfading ideal of human life was the ideal of holiness. Nor is this too sublime a test for the trivialities of every day. Show More Sentences Bass would have been more sublime, mezzo-soprano more piquant. What was Moses in Egypt but a sublime oratorio, which was acted on the stage instead of being coldly sung in a concert-room? The great object has been to popularize the works of this sublime master. We look forward with impatience for some able geologist to explore this sublime but almost unknown region. Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Does the sublime voice issue only to overbear and reduce him to silence? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. It is too long to quote, too sublime to be marred by abbreviation. I was raised a Calvinist, which is to say that I was raised to believe that God is sublime and immense enough to break our senses, and we are as small and helpless as worms. He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike, and from sheer exhaustion sinking to the vilest and most indecent abuse. Then, again, from time to time, this mass of sublime noises opens and gives passage to the beats of the Ave Maria, which bursts forth and sparkles like an aigrette of stars. She saw herself sink from the sublime height of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery, the abyss of separation between her and her boy was complete. Find more words! 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