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sublimity

[suh-blim-i-tee] / səˈblɪm ɪ ti /
















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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

The sublimity of this “Oedipe” is fateful thanks to the festival’s probing new artistic director, Finnish mezzo-soprano Lilli Paasikivi.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

"Good Omens" doesn't quite achieve that level of sublimity in these new episodes, alas.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2023

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

From Washington Post Oct. 18, 2022

I was feeling dizzy, but since the capital moment of my life was coming up this dizziness only added to my sense of frightened sublimity.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

Other artists are led away by foreign sublimities and distant interests; delighting always in that which is most markedly strange, and quaintly contrary to the scenery of their homes.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin




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