sublime

Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Leonard is a sublime basketball player when he’s healthy enough to play, but he’s not a charismatic personality or a historically in-demand spokesperson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

It was with a sublime backhand winner that Musetti took charge of the second set on his first break point opportunity, before withstanding four break points to hold for a 5-2 lead.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Bonus: my car smelled sublime — minty and fresh — the entire way home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Calomel is a white powder which sublimes at a low red heat; it is insoluble in water, alcohol and ether.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

Know you what it is when anguish, with apocalyptic NEVER, To a Pythian height dilates you, and despair sublimes to power?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

His heart throbbed with bliss that was unendurable; sense and intellect and soul and spirit were, as it were, sublimed into one white flame of delight.

From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

It is sublimed and sacrificed on the altar of holy passion.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Some of the color tests included the priming of boards with white lead, zinc oxide, sublimed white lead, lithopone, and other single pigment paints.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

This early design embodying Blake’s favourite conception was destined to be enlarged and sublimed into one of the most magnificent inventions of Christian Art.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

The delicate paleness of her cheeks, the glance that was sublimed into the sweetest melancholy, made me tremble with unspeakable pleasure.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

Oh, yea, the Sun in one subliming rise From Wisdom's infinite mind!

From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Edward Doyle

She herself says"—and poor Louisa's complaint grew into pathos under the subliming force of her advocate's sympathy—"that she would be like a widow, and worse than a widow.

From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

On a commercial scale it is made by subliming a mixture of common salt and mercuric sulphate: 2NaCl + HgSO4 = HgCl2 + Na2SO4.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

Nor here alone the virtue reign’d, By matter’s cumb’rous form detain’d, But thence, subliming, and refin’d, Aspir’d, and reach’d its kindred mind.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore

The succinic acid is drawn from amber by sublimation in a gentle heat, and rises in a concrete form into the neck of the subliming vessel.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier