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sublime

[suh-blahym] / sΙ™ΛˆblaΙͺm /


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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

All of which goes to underline the main takeaway - the sublime quality of Antonelli's drive.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

“When the final whistle blew in the semifinal, I felt like I’d written my name into soccer history by representing my country. It was one of the most sublime moments of my career.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

His sublime portraits are partly the product of his time with ravenous flies and rotting bodies.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

This song, however, seemed to produce great effect on the French part of his audience, who sighed, started, and exclaimed—"Ah! quels sont touchans, ces sentimens sublimes!"

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

Heated in an ignition tube with Na2CO3 metallic mercury sublimes, condensing in the upper portion of the tube in minute globules.

From The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Frederick Hutton Getman

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 was the philosophy of Plato, sublimed and harmonized by the political circumstances of the times.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

The delicate paleness of her cheeks, the glance that was sublimed into the sweetest melancholy, made me tremble with unspeakable pleasure.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

And each bystander of them all Could criticise, and quote tradition How depths of blue sublimed some pall —To get which, pricked a king's ambition; Worth sceptre, crown and ball.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

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

On a commercial scale it is made by subliming a mixture of common salt and mercuric sulphate: 2NaCl + HgSO4 = HgCl2 + Na2SO4.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

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

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

Her powers were maturing, and nobler sentiments were subliming the first heats and rude experiments.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller

That end will not be attained by our authors by subliming Religion into an emotion, and making an armistice with Science.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon

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


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