sublimely

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As the gay and dissipated Ned, Mr. Taylor is sublimely funny: “Johnny Case? Isn’t that a Joan Crawford western?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, described Clay on a visit to the White House, wearing “with a sublimely unconscious air, three pistols and an Arkansas toothpick”—his Bowie knife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

But Chew-Bose’s sublimely fresh take on a familiar tale is unburdened by comparisons.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

It bloomed best, most sublimely, in the middle of an emotional flareup of just this kind.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger