sublime

The sublime setting aside, “A Stranger in Corfu” is also satisfyingly murky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

Bonus: my car smelled sublime — minty and fresh — the entire way home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was another reminder of Pogacar’s sublime talent but also his panache.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned, until all the wires withered and the circuits cracked.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

He loves the monks as great dreamers, as the chercheurs de chimères sublimes, but he cannot help them, cannot defend what they possess, for behind them already stand their heirs.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

In close vessels it wholly sublimes, but burns with a small flame in pure air.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

V. Is it play, when his eyes wander innocent-wild And sublimed with a sadness unfitting a child?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Collect the sublimed matter, put it again into the sand-bath, and sublime a second time; this process must be repeated five times.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Sometimes one does not see the given beauty at first, and then he has the pleasure of puzzling it out; sometimes he never sees it, and then his life is sublimed with an insoluble conundrum.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Like two that had died and found each other, they talked until speech rose into silence—they smiled until the dews which the smiles had sublimed claimed their turn and descended in tears.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

It is not for those who symbolize divine things otherwise, who typify to their fellow-men the flesh crucified, the soul sublimed.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needless.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The subliming furnaces are ranged in a row, and communicate by lines of rails with the weigh-house.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

These piñas are then carefully weighed and put into a subliming furnace, Figs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.

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

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

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