How To Use Sublimity In A Sentence
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Sublimity is a complex of undecidables and aporias of which Levi-narrator is only partially aware and which is often in an adversarial relation to his stated intentions.
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Thirdly, we will expound them in respect of a superessential, God-seeing life, which few men can attain or taste, by reason of the sublimity and high nobility of that life.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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I had found sublimity and wonder in the dread heights and precipices, in the roaring torrents, and the wastes of ice and snow; but as yet, they had taught me nothing else.
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Catholic philosophy does not deny the soul's spontaneous life, the sublimity of its suprasensible and supernatural operations, and the inadequacy of words to translate its yearnings.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The very sublimity is the cause of the difficulty of the style, and of the presence of peculiar expressions occurring, not found elsewhere.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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That sublimity, which is one manifestation of beauty, is of the spirit, and by the spirit it must be apprehended.
The Enjoyment of Art
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Let not that amiable man, who has found the art of introducing heroism into common life, and dignifying the most trivial circumstances by the sublimity and refinedness of his sentiments, now, in the most important affair, sink below the common level.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
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Physiologie du goût and Baudelaire's 1850 essay "Du Vin et du haschisch compares comme moyens de multpilier l'individualité" comprise a counter-discourse of gastronomy that tips moderation into excess and sobriety into sublimity.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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There you'll be, a furious collection of primordial organelles focused like a coherent light machine on the hyperholistic sublimity of 'appliance' as a signifier of more than simply an instance of a particular hardware configuration, but as an aggregation of physical nature with the abstraction of 'applicabilty,' more than just a word, but a magickal spell that conjures technology out of ecology.
Whole Day Off
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The chief characteristic of Milton's poetry is its sublimity, which is the natural outcome of the magnificence of his conceptions and of his own pure imaginative genius.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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To the ancient Greeks, the body was an object of esthetic contemplation, raised by their plastic art to the loftiest peaks of sublimity.
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Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth [14] a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled.
Letter 149
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The nobility, sublimity, depth, pathos and exuberance of his concerts remain esoteric and reveal his scholarship, authority and authenticity.
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And then, when the last of his loathsome secrets has been told, when he has nothing left either to gain or to conceal, then he rises up into a perfect bankrupt sublimity and makes the great avowal which is the whole pivot and meaning of the poem.
Robert Browning
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The Alps were "palaces of Nature," that "throned Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2
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This modern form of sublimity is more complex than mere technophobia.
Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
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Since hua jing ( sublimity ) is essentially an interpretative hypothesis, Qian s definition does not exhaust its connotations.
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Butler, though a man brave by principle, if not by constitution, was overawed; for intensity of mental distress has in it a sort of sublimity which repels and overawes all men, but especially those of kind and sympathetic dispositions.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Enough for a programme indeed, this peak of sublimity is enough for a lifetime.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result of an excessive observation of the startling facts of life, a work appropriate to the violent energy of realistic prose, has been a general exaggeration of the darker tints, an insistence on that prominence of what was called the "sub-fusc" colours which art-critics of a century ago judged essential to sublimity in all art.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
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Next in progress come Yosemite Falls, loftiest by far in the world, a spectacle of sublimity.
The Book of the National Parks
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The concerto took on a rare intensity in consequence, as though kicked into sublimity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just screams and sublimity, courage and despair in every note.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spectacle is declared by the Americans themselves to have been one of the highest moral grandeur, if not of sublimity; and, though our cousins on this side of the water are somewhat too much in the habit of using fine words and indulging in hyperbole, no one who witnessed the long lines of busy men, neglecting their business for awhile to attend to the more important business of the State, and waiting patiently in the street amid the fog and rain until it came to their turn to deposit their balloting-paper in the appointed box -- using no jostling in pressing, indulging in no altercation with each other on the exciting subject which drew them together, and in every way behaving with as much subdued dignity as if they were attending a place of worship -- can deny that the encomium is abundantly merited.
The Presidential Contest in America
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This painting is the epitome of whirling sublimity.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first sight, there is beauty, Kant explains, as there is sublimity in natural objects and in their artistic imitation.
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A review of your native mountains, of their heights of gray sublimity, and their dark woody glens would now inspire you with more noble enthusiasm than all the fertile and classic shores of Greece.
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This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity
The Pontiff Is In...
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In this volume religious sublimity is clothed in childlike simplicity.
The Mother's Book
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Comparison of Virile Beauty between " Twenty - four Literal Criticisms " and " On Sublimity
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Taste is the latent dignity, revealing the distinguished sublimity among the common public.
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Although rendered with detailed realism the particular was always subordinate to the general effect of transcendent beauty or sublimity.
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Sublimity, last year's hero, could only finish fourth.
The Sun
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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
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Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Her innocence exchang'd for guilty state; Whatever you write, in every golden line Sublimity and elegance combine; Thy nervous phrase impresses every soul, While harmony gives rapture to the whole. '
Life Of Johnson
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Ancient Egyptians knew the sublimity of exterior space (think of the pyramids under moonlight), but interior space for them was darkness and clutter.
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There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Huddled clapboard houses substitute for the raw-plank architecture of the frontier town; an industrial bridge provides background sublimity in the absence of mountains.
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That the ass, which in its very degradation still retains an under-power of sublimity, [Footnote: '_An under-power of sublimity_.'
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2
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The descriptions are "high-falutin" beyond all endurance, and there is particularly noticeable a kind of stylistic foppery, which is always hovering between sublimity and a giggle.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
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Perhaps we may best gain some glimpses of their great and holy sublimity by trying to gather their teaching round the centres of the three petitions, 'glorify' (vs. 1, 5),
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
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Hard to set aside the sublimity suggested by even a grubby style of dove.
The Times Literary Supplement
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a ghost-moon hanging, no more than a foot above the highest spire, you must surely be "citified" if you do not pause to drink in its weird sublimity and wild beauty.
The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
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Bed linens are draped, layered and pleated in three grand monochrome compositions that achieve the stately sublimity of religious art.
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This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity
The Pontiff Is In...
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There have been many films made about Joan of Arc, but none of them match the sublimity of Carl Dreyer's ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’, one of the high points of the silent cinema.
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This modern form of sublimity is more complex than mere technophobia.
Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
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He crushed with his contempt the two stockish imbeciles who did not understand the sublimity of his song, which opened wide the heavens!
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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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.
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Can you rank sublimity, as if it were pop records?
Times, Sunday Times
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“Guardian.” his Sermon on the Deity is characterized as equalling, “in acuteness of judgment, ornaments of speech, and true sublimity, the choicest writings of the fathers.”
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
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All the sublimity of the polar experience she needed was already inside her freezer.
Globe and Mail
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To the contagionist, filled as he is with the dread of final causes, having no faith in destiny nor in the fixed will of God, and with none of the devil-may-care indifference which might stand him instead of creeds — to such one, every rag that shivers in the breeze of a plague-stricken city has this sort of sublimity.
Eothen
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Their subject is always the tragic fate of empire (and of all human endeavor) when pitted against the sublimity and grandeur of nature.
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The sublimity is so overpowering as naturally to prompt the exclamation that if the divine steeds were to leap thus twice in succession they would pass beyond the confines of the world.
On the Sublime
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THE Democratic Review not long since contained a singularly wild and spirited poem, entitled the Norseman's Ride, in which the writer appears to have very happily blended the boldness and sublimity of the heathen saga with the grace and artistic skill of the literature of civilization.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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These are best described as a stupefying roar of bombast occasionally interrupted by a few words of real sublimity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Isn't his work repellent in its madness, whatever the colouristic skill of the paintings, whatever the occasional sublimity of the prose?
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Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and decay prevail.
"Our Voyage having come to an end..."