sublimity
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You can layer the soap with its corresponding perfume, body lotion and hand cream to build intensity, or, like the other Dries items in your collection, let it stand alone in its sublimity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Featuring inspired vocal performances by Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and a deep cast of animation veterans, Chris Sanders’ warm adventure approaches sublimity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
"Good Omens" doesn't quite achieve that level of sublimity in these new episodes, alas.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
That housewife escaping the flood and Isaiah with his finger in a book: How do we go from pointing out these inspiring details to revealing the sublimity of a masterpiece?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023
She married soon thereafter, the selfsame man who accused her of sublimity, and gave him merry hell for many years.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
It's a buddy movie shot in soft light that aspires to comfort an older generation while informing the young that life's messiness and sublimities don't end at 40.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2018
It is a testament to Forman’s fascination with the foibles and sublimities of the human spirit, and how cunning and tenderness, along with enduring passion, play out against our cruelties and better angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
“Likeness” encompasses such sublimities as Donatello’s painted terra-cotta bust of an Italian aristocrat, which shines with aloof sensitivity, and Rodin’s breathtaking translucent “Mask of Hanako II Type E,” which seems the soul incarnate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
“Mel Allen’s life was one long, extended, exhaustive, triumphant prayer,” he said, “a call to us to see the sublimities of the stolen sign or the first seasonal shifts of the wind.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2010
The view up the cañon of the Stehekin is the crowning glory of this panorama of sublimities.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
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