sublime

Some of that same intimacy returned when he played a sublime encore, a movement from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5, with string players from the orchestra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But the business was viable, the staff was talented and reliable, and the work we made together would, often enough, touch something close to the sublime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

The run is also continuing his sublime form in longer-format matches - this win extending the streak to 29 successive wins in games with 20 or more legs.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

The Tropics had the newest capital city on Earth, and it was called simply that: “Capital City,” in the sublime confidence of youth.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The incandescent carbon in the evacuated bulb sublimes or volatilizes and deposits upon the bulb.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

The perchloride of mercury sublimes undecomposed in the bulb, previously undergoing fusion.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Poor Titmouse's doubts, hopes, and fears, were rapidly being sublimed into a reverence for Gammon....

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

The corroded white lead was somewhat whiter than the sublimed white lead, but a careful observation of the surface of the corroded lead revealed deep checking.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

Hydrochloric acid and sulphuretted hydrogen are likewise plentiful, together with many other substances which, sublimed by the high internal temperature, take a solid form on cooling at the surface.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Unified paints containing sublimed white lead are of great value, showing upon long exposure very little decay.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

This early design embodying Blake’s favourite conception was destined to be enlarged and sublimed into one of the most magnificent inventions of Christian Art.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

I shall rise from the alembic a saint of their own subliming!

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

She herself says"—and poor Louisa's complaint grew into pathos under the subliming force of her advocate's sympathy—"that she would be like a widow, and worse than a widow.

From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.

From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko

They were constantly distilling, incinerating, subliming, heating, in order that the spirit, or inner kernel of things, might be obtained.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir

The naphtha removes mostly only the phenanthrene, but the carbazol can be removed only by pyridine, or by subliming or distilling the anthracene over caustic potash.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various