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sublimity

[suh-blim-i-tee] / səˈblɪm ɪ ti /
















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Featuring inspired vocal performances by Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and a deep cast of animation veterans, Chris Sanders’ warm adventure approaches sublimity.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 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

Greatness, perfection, sublimity: the appropriate vocabulary for a certain kind of cultural experience.

From New York Times May 25, 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

She married soon thereafter, the selfsame man who accused her of sublimity, and gave him merry hell for many years.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

However deeply Franklin, in these dying hours may have pondered the sublimities of Immortality—the Resurrection—the Judgment Throne—the Final Verdict—Heaven—Hell,—he was very reticent respecting those themes.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott




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