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sublimity

[suh-blim-i-tee] / səˈblɪm ɪ ti /
















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Nonetheless, this production finds the sublimity in our submission to fate, whatever that may be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

And probably shorter half-lives than the sublimity past generations found in the technologies of their own day.

From Salon ● May 30, 2023

The tone of the score, from first note to last, is sustained sublimity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

The hushed sublimity of the halls of the Rand Corp. circa 1970 has given way.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022

The sublimity of self-sacrifice activating the Cheerleaders overwhelmed him.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

A skeptical and sensuous imagination plays around the-114- sanctities and sublimities which have for it become illusory.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds




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