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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

Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

But when Cootie finally leaves the house as a teenager, he falls in love with this world, in all its sublimity and stupidity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 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

It is on that feeling of sublimity, even greater than one feels when standing atop a mountain and looking at a glorious view, that religions are based.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Like Sir Thomas Browne, he was greedy for more mysteries, more marvels, more sublimities for unhesitating acceptance.

From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon




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