sublimely
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As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
“Cold Comfort Farm” is a sublimely ridiculous novel about the Starkadders, a rural English family with winter in their hearts and Thomas Hardy in their bones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, described Clay on a visit to the White House, wearing “with a sublimely unconscious air, three pistols and an Arkansas toothpick”—his Bowie knife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Under the supervision of Peter Sellars, Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang completely rewrote “Ainadamar” for Santa Fe Opera in a sublimely moving production with gloriously grafitti-fied sets by L.A. artist Gronk.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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