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
Sublime with both feet, he went from prolific striker to one of the best midfield players in the world. The Sun
And the second book follows Bourdain as he criss-crosses the world sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre.
Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe -- Life of Robert Browning
You spend four or so years in "blocked" college time, serene in the knowledge that nothing will change (short of failure, which is of the catastrophic/sublime mode). Archive 2003-05-01
Tarkovsky sublimely prefigures space exploration with a five minute sequence of cars winding through the tunnels and overpasses of a modern Russian city.
There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. Les Miserables
Among the other Buddhist works is Suzuki Kiitsu ' s sublime 19th-century scroll painting of Sho-Kannon, who sits tranquilly on a floating lotus, backed by a golden moon and brilliant blue sky. In Search of Beauty
Pentham charged forward like a runaway Rhino and, roared on by the vocal Thwaites fans, finished with a sublime dink over the keeper which defied a man of his size.
The Dorian worship of Apollo ..., always opposed to the sad Christian divinities, is the aspiring element, by force and spring of which Greek religion sublimes itself .... The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Sublime Frequencies -- the reissue label helmed by onetime Sun City Girl Alan Bishop -- has produced some of the most challenging and fulfilling reissues in the past 10 years. NPR Topics: News
Emerald Valley Unified had constructed it right before the budget sublimed like the synthetic snow at Christmastime Disneyland. High School Confidential
Interrupting an opera on television for a pet-food commercial is going from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
she remained sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused
The country of the Vaudois is the material basis of their history; and the sublime points of their scenery join in, as it were, with the sublime passages of their nation. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
In An Allegory, for example, the composition invokes the sublime order of classical art.
Chloranil (Fluka) was recrystallized from acetone and sublimed under vacuum.
It would be a concern if he didn't and somebody possessing his sublime skills is capable of producing something breathtaking. Times, Sunday Times
A few tricks and sublime passes. Times, Sunday Times
if your slave may be so honoured as to speak in your presence, a vizier should be a person of great tact; he should be able to draw the line as nicely as I do when I shave your sublime head, leaving not a vestige of the hair, yet entering not upon the skin. The Pacha of Many Tales
But today we're nonplused by the phenomenon that a good number of students, rather than enjoying the sublime happiness supposed to be provided by education, do not hide their detestation for it.
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
This simple plot is developed masterfully through a narrative technique which employs a series of vignettes giving an appropriately hazy yet sublime sense of situation and setting.
Thou art that blessed mediatress between God and men, by whom what is lowest is united to that which is most sublime. The Oratory of the Faithful Soul; or, Devotions to the Most Holy Sacrament, and to Our Blessed Lady.
Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie.
Art is about creativity, transmuting the humblest subjects into the sublime.
In a cinema, we can certainly savour our sublime ‘moment’ if what we see stirs feelings of panic; watching a video, we can replay the occasion and ‘pause’ it as many times as we wish.
The title character, with a name that recalls the famous telescope, is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.
Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman.
This sublime sphere, set amid the ordered nature of a landscaped garden, combined the functions of memorial and planetarium, conjoining the transience of humanity with the eternal celestial realm.
In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
Such sublime simplicity shines through other aspects of this short but monumental work. Times, Sunday Times
If only the director trusted her audience, this could've been a sublime forage into the netherworld of the human psyche.
I have heard, that if these sublime genuises are wakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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.
Everybody must have this recording in their collection: It is the most sublime music and sophisticated and lyrical jazz ever recorded.
There have been many sublime moments during a season now drawing to its close. Times, Sunday Times
Be warned: a day in this museum can leave you wondering whether even a week would be enough to appreciate the trove of sublime art and its arcane technologies of the after-life.
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.
Despite the disastrous night prior, Devin still dwelt in a sublime state, mesmerised by tantalizing blue eyes and a rosebud mouth.
One grand prix of the season in Melbourne yesterday with sublime ease. Times, Sunday Times
Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie.
Mrs Trollope was sublimely uninterested in what she herself wore.
Haeres cuius pater defungitur, si alicuius vult esse reputationis, mandat cognatos, amicos, Relligiosos, et sacerdotes pro posse, qui certo Die conuenientes sub magno Symphoniæ festo, corportant defuncti cadauer, in montis sublime cacumen. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
When he was at his most sublime, he was unstoppable and irresistible.
It can be obtained from mispickel by heating, which causes the arsenic to sublime and leaves the iron sulfide.
Crossing it on a moonlit winter's night lifted the heart, though that was often the trouble with Oxford - the architecture outsoared one's feelings, the sublime not always easy to match. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Depth hoar develops when a large, vertical temperature gradient causes vapour to sublime, diffuse and crystallize in a layer.
They go from the sublime to the ridiculous with their cricket. The Sun
The most famous kick that Cantona ever delivered wasn't a sublime chip or a match-winning penalty, but a two-footed karate kick.
She approached the angry crowd with a sublime lack of concern for her own safety.
However, he has immense pace, is a cool and clinical finisher in one-on-one situations and has the ability to score sublime goals.
We learn, for instance, how his wife played a crucial role in the composition of the sublime trio at the end of Der Rosenkavalier.
8 The experience of so many princes, whom he had esteemed or endured, from the vain follies of Elagabalus to the useful rigor of Aurelian, taught him to form a just estimate of the duties, the dangers, and the temptations of their sublime station. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
A sublime, monumental dead end, that has produced some brilliant sado-masochist poetry from band and critic alike.
From Gissing to Patterson is rather like from the sublime to the gorblimey. Even in a little thing
All those who reckoned it looked a case of the ridiculous meeting the sublime, take a bow. The Sun
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.
Like Marxism-Leninism, it entertains a sublime vision of human potential for social harmony and individual fulfilment.
It is comforting to know that while Hamlet, Rosalind, Portia and other sublime intellects do not exist in Othello, they do exist in life, and they will always outthink the Iagos of the world. Robert David Jaffee: Will Fort Hood's Iago Speak?
Vermeer was the high priest of the domestic; inside his sublime interiors even ordinary women can become iconic.
The things we tasted went from the sublime to the ridiculous to the outstanding to the disgusting. The Sun
-- The real identity of the two words explains Milton’s use of ‘diamond’ in _Paradise Lost_, b. 7; and also in that sublime passage in his _Apology for Smectymnuus_: “Then zeal, whose substance is ethereal, arming in complete _diamond_”. English Past and Present
Nor can he equal the sublime lyrism of his model; but he is little inferior in poetic conception, in dignified idealization, and in picturesque imagery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
Sublime the cataract might be to the casual visitor, but shrewder eyes were taking its measure.
2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window Notes
Personal fave tracks on here would probably have to be the sublimely funky "Cool Steel" by The Firebirds, Wolf Baki's dreamlike "With You Alone" and the light and fluffy flutey "Street Waltz" from The Sante Palumbo Group. Archive 2010-01-01
From fiery jerk dishes to sublimely sweet mangoes, the foods of Jamaica are exciting and comforting.
Every day is birthday time when thinking of you,and I shall keep one sublime hoping your many dreams come true.
Showed some sublime touches in striker role. The Sun
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.
Now, Rome—not the society of people in the city, but their collective exoskeleton, the city itself—is a sublime and inordinately complicated object lesson in the substantiality of buildings and other made things, in their resistance to abstraction. The Forever City
The view from our room is sublime - Scotland's longest loch and an assortment of rolling hills and mountains.
She adds a little grated orange zest and the flavor enhancement is sublime! Apples & Leaves Pie Top Cutter and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites
And he ends the sestet by mentioning the mundane work he wants to abandon for the sublime enjoyment of the warm, spring day. Archive 2009-06-01
It's rare to see a derby with such sublime finishes. The Sun
Besides, the conception of the crime constitution should be sublimed of liability should be separated.
When we relate this reverence to our experience of the sublime, we have a sense, however fleeting, of the transcendental.
Criticising the conclusion of a passage in Milton's treatise, the language of the first portion of which is pronounced "too sublime and angelical for mortal creatures to comprehend it," the Answerer declares, "This frothy discourse, were it not sugared over with a little neat language, would appear so immeritous, so contrary to all humane learning, yea truth and common experience itself, that all that read it must needs count it worthy to be burnt by the hangman. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
At its best - the sublimely tender first movement - the effects were hypnotic. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Together they make booze so sublime that angels weep and Europeans tremble. Times, Sunday Times
She approached the angry crowd with a sublime lack of concern for her own safety.
A search for the "sublime" in nature coexisted with ambitious historical subjects, slick moralistic storytelling and an emphasis on technological virtuosity. The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
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.
One grand prix of the season in Melbourne yesterday with sublime ease. Times, Sunday Times
It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime.
Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld.
No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy. Chapter 10
He has gone from sublime form at the end of 2012 to looking confused and bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
That said, it's a very good engine, which is coupled to a sublime gearbox.
Today has been a reading day and I am going from the gorblimey to the sublime today. Even in a little thing
It is, however, perceived as pure and religious, mythical and, in a banal sense, sublime.
Together they make booze so sublime that angels weep and Europeans tremble. Times, Sunday Times
In the interests of scientific thoroughness, we had four small eats and one antipasto between two adults and a 12-year-old, and they ranged from the good (marinated octopus, chicken liver crostini) to the sublime: prosciutto so delicate it was, according to my son, "like air", a compulsively eatable dish of fried courgettes, and a sensationally good stew of squid, potatoes, chickpeas and chilli. Restaurant: Tinello, London SW1
Every day is birthday time when thinking of you,and I shall keep one sublime hoping your many dreams come true.
With our small patient population, it is difficult to reach definitive conclusions regarding patients with sublime tubercle avulsion fractures and functional medial elbow instability.
My favourite ever piece of digital art is an excellent example of this kind of sublime infinity.
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 was the sublime abnegation of true love that comes to all lovers, and it came to him there, at the telephone, in a whirlwind of fire and glory; and to die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well. Chapter 12
And the creation of the Buddhistic state of chilly loneliness is not only and indication of his sublime artistic interest but also is closely related to Buddhist aesthetics.
Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie.
But the most sublime and beautiful picture was to come, of a wooded valley funnelling down to a strip of green grass flood-plain and on this the River Rye meandering to the abbey.
The apparently sublime power of the volcano was largely the result of an initially supine reaction.
In the movie, Reynolds plays a widow sublimely adjusted to retired life in San Francisco.
He said it inspired a sense of the sublime - the massive, overpowering effect of awe demanded by something bigger and stronger than we are.
As Gillen Wood argues, for example, Francis Burney's representation of the experience of listening to a castrato at the opera in Evelina and Cecilia is conspicuously disembodied — any and all description of the castrato's corporeality is absent, being transposed into the sound of his sublime voice. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
But late in this Grammy-nominated singer's 40-year career, she has found perhaps the most compatible setting of her life in a sublime trio with young Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German soprano saxist and bass clarinettist Klaus Gesing. This week's new live music
All in all, though, this CD contains provocative and often sublime pianism.
I'm still not what you'd call perky, but now there's a sense of the ridiculous in my sublime despondency. Trinityboy Diary Entry
He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime.
From the intime bar in the back, set off with stone walls and lights that would look at home on "Mad Men," flow some sublime cocktails. Tom Sietsema on the Atlas Room: Two-chef restaurant lives up to name
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.
But Barca is sublime and thrilling to watch, and I hate Real (to me it’s Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia vs Franco). Matthew Yglesias » Bad Scene, Everyone’s Fault
From the ridiculous to the sublime, freaky commercialism to painstaking research. Times, Sunday Times
Just as sublime beauty can soothe and inspire, urban ugliness can crush and depress. Times, Sunday Times
He had the wonderful [black] character tenor Stephen Cole play the scene as the Covent Garden Sutherland in "Lucia," down to the white hoop dress, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything as sublimely funny in my life. Flattery, the sincerest form of
A sublime work exploring the dynamics of thefragile nature of human existence and the vulnerability inherent intrust. Riverside Theatre’s Sustainability In the Arts «
But you can also settle happily for the sublime views that you have from this generously turf Ed upland.
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.
There they jumped into an araba with a kavass on the box, dashed down Pera Street, past the banking quarter, over the Galata bridge, up the Sublime Porte Road and into the Bayazid Square, where they reached their destination. Round the World in Seven Days
But I understand: "The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle," I suppose too much has been spent, said and done, and too many hirelings have too much invested, for such a sublimely aleatic solution to occur. Marshall Grossman: Clinton, Obama: A Modest Proposal in Lieu of a Badly Wrecked Train
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The sublime is a concept that was first imagined in the first century AD by Longinus (but not really rediscovered until the sixteenth century), for whom the sublime was about greatness, loftiness, and elevation, inspiring awe and veneration. Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity
In such asyndeta and repetitions, the sublime is always on the attack. On the Sublime
His goal was struck low past Pauric Kelly after Ian Fitzgerald slid through a sublime ball to find the Arles-Kilcruise man unmarked.
It is difficult to believe that the Taliban brand of Islam can dehumanise a person to such an extent - making him insensitive to even the sublimest of art form …. What Will Happen to Ancient Art in the Taliban’s Swat?
Dante transports an earthly historicity into his heaven and hell, in an idiom which is both sublime and sublunary.
Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees. Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty
A few tricks and sublime passes. Times, Sunday Times
And she does so in language that is routinely sublime; much of her prose jauntily gnaws on the page (Clinton "had not changed her name after marrying her big-pawed law school swain"; Rachel Maddow succeeded "thanks to a combination of brisk thinking and galumphing good cheer"), causing this reader to alternately grin and scurry to a dictionary. AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election
From Baudelaire's Journaux Intimes 2:ii: 'Le Dandy doit aspirer à être sublime sans interruption; il doit vivre et dormir devant un miroir.' Archive 2007-11-01
The initial twelve-minute aerial dance found them on a rope suspended from the ceiling, executing arabesques while spinning with sublime grace.
Bresson's most sublime and devastating vision, "Au hasard Balthazar" 1966, is a modern-day fable about a long-suffering donkey victimized by his owners' pride, greed, lust and sadism. Salvation at the Forum
Here is a typically maddening and illuminating specimen of Pasolini's sublime, crackpot antimodernism.
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.
It's often said that Matthew Le Tissier didn't make the most of his sublime talent, though only by the clumpish and irritating. The Guardian World News
In each religion we discover the interweaving of the sublime and the ridiculous, the liberatory and the oppressive, the radical and the conventional.
Pas mauvais, ca sonne vraiment tres Plastic Tree mais un album comme ca apres le sublime NegaToPosi, on retourne 15 ans en arriere ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
The snow-capped mountain ranges, the sheer sensuousness of the sublime peaks and their changing hues provide a serene touch to the exhibition.
Showed some sublime touches in striker role. The Sun
After some 45 laps, he overtook him and raced into the distance - quite sublime and easily the equal of the Viren trip.
He would use the sublime and powerful cetic arts to continue the fiery work of remaking himself. THE BROKEN GOD
Conversant with speculations of the sublimest and most perfect natures, the vision in which he embodies his own imaginations unites all of wonderful or wise or beautiful, which the poet, the philosopher or the lover could depicture. Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude
Perhaps the most famous of the op.20 quartets is no.5 in F minor, the sober beauty of whose first movement is lifted into sublime regions with wonderful enharmonic modulations near its close.
Eventually, dish after dish of sublimely spiced specialities came dashing out of the kitchen like a dramatic tour de force.
Mary inquired in order that we might learn from the angel concerning that conception which is a sublime matter beyond understanding.
Edmund Burke, in his treatise A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756), described the sublime as an evocation of anxiety in the face of nature, an exhilarating but fraught recognition of its illimitable power over humankind. Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
There are dozens of less retrograde travelers in whose hoofprints we will also be journeying, for whom the pleasures of Eastern travel were not so strictly identical with the sublime egotism of Western identity formation.
The Black Rock Desert is a place of sublime expansive space.
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.
In contrast to my chaotic single life, the world of motherhood and marriage in the 6th arrondissement was going to be sublime. Times, Sunday Times
The bit where Shaun arrives to rescue his mum from his soon-to-be-zombified dad is just sublime.
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.
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
And finally, the sublime constantly mixes with the ordinary.
His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory.
The dresses in the fashion show went/ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Here, too, are the details of carvel planking in all its sublime simplicity. Times, Sunday Times
The beef medallions were beautifully tender, and the sauce sublimely creamy and tasty, with just enough mustard to give it an ‘edge’.
No honest critic able to read the koine original could resist the conclusion that Tyndale throughout transcends his proof-text original ms to a sublime degree. David Teems: The Other English William
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.
The book contains sublime descriptive passages.
From the sublime to the ridiculous and truly perplexing I thought I'd share them with you.
Why combine sublime knowledge with utter inexperience?
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
It shall relume that Promethean fire, that sublime flame of patriotism, that devoted love of country, which his words have commended, which his example has consecrated. Washington's Birthday
At its best - the sublimely tender first movement - the effects were hypnotic. Times, Sunday Times
A rare opportunity to see the four guys perform together since they first joined forces five years ago, the 8pm performance promises familiar songs sublimely arranged for melodeon, concertina, oboe, fiddle, mandolin and guitar.
some salts sublime when heated
Yet this last, the cultivation of sublime indifference, may not be the easiest but the toughest way of all into the snob-free zone.
Alarum pennae continent in longitudine 12. passus, elephantem in sublime tollere potest. Anatomy of Melancholy
Dinner takes to a sublime and faintly parodic extreme the great revival of British food that might be traced back to Rick Stein's 1988 book, English Seafood Cookery. How Britain got its patriotism back | Jonathan Jones
Interrupting an opera on television for a pet-food commercial is going from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The thing itself appears first definitely [404] in Madame de la Fayette, largely, though not unmixedly, in Marivaux, and to some extent in Prévost and Marmontel, while it is, as it were, sublimed in Rousseau, and present very strongly in A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
A sublime, unmissable piece of cinema and a rare treat.
Part of their power is their ability to evoke the sublime for their visitors by affirming a sense of patriotism and awe in the majesty of a building so grand and permanent in the landscape.
Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses.
One grand prix of the season in Melbourne yesterday with sublime ease. Times, Sunday Times
The works on display range from the mainstream to the sublime.
Gravely, over thimblesful of black coffee, the old hakim explained that regular sexual intercourse was necessary to keep a man fit and healthy, but the sexual act could either be a simple one of reproduction—no more complicated than that of a beast in a field—or it could be a subtle act of love, a discipline to be learned and practiced, in order to achieve and appreciate the most sublime gift of Allah. Lace
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches.
However, the majority of the film was smooth, multi-layered, and tight, like sublime lyrics over a hypnotic beat.
In Arthur Schopenhauer's rich philosophical and aesthetic thought, "the Sublime"is a very important concept but less concerned.

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