Thesaurus / sublimity

sublimity

How to use sublimity in a sentence

I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.

The critics say that his sublimity of diction is sometimes carried to an extreme, so that his language becomes inflated.

What is remarkable in the scenery is, that its sublimity is an inversion of the sublimity of almost all other grand scenery.

OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST

There is a touch of sublimity in that, and the basia of Baal-Zeboub may well enough be more demoralising than those of Secundus.

You feel its beauty and sublimity, and if you attempt to give words to your feeling you produce a caricature.

Nowhere is the sublimity of public justice so broadly exemplified as in an English school.

Yet Demosthenes when moved by passion attains the sublimity of intensity and strikes like lightning.

"Sublimitas," misleadingly translated "sublimity," the author defines as elevation and greatness of style.

But this does not diminish the moral sublimity of the experiment.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985