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US
/səˈbɫaɪm/
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[ UK /sʌblˈaɪm/ ]
[ UK /sʌblˈaɪm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
an exalted ideal
argue in terms of high-flown ideals
a grand purpose
a noble and lofty concept -
inspiring awe
well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity
empyrean aplomb
the sublime beauty of the night -
greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
supreme folly
the supreme confidence of youth
His face assumed an expression of sublime conceit
the sublime absurdity of the creative process - worthy of adoration or reverence
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lifted up or set high
their hearts were jocund and sublime
VERB
- vaporize and then condense right back again
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change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
some salts sublime when heated
sublime iodine
How To Use sublime In A Sentence
- A great deal of literature is only the obvious transformed into the sublime.
- In 1971, the recording centre moved to a beautiful carriage house in Baarn, which was soon christened 'Polyhymnia', after the muse of sublime and sacred hymn. Audiophile Audition Headlines
- This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears _a good deal less innocent_ when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to _destroy life_. The Antichrist
- His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
- He says the most sublime things without effort and he often finishes them by a turn of pleasantry which is neither misplaced nor far-fetched. A Philosophical Dictionary
- In Hegelian aesthetics, the sacred art of the sublime can only be the art of poetry.
- The rapture effected by an aesthetic of the sublime is often more persuasive than any rational argument in its direct exploitation and manipulation of the audience's sense of actualities, possibilities, ethical duties and emotional affinities/antipathies. On the Sublime
- Mr. Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.
- Senator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed by the ardor of battle. The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
- Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality