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

“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

The run is also continuing his sublime form in longer-format matches - this win extending the streak to 28 successive wins in games with 20 or more legs.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The Tropics had the newest capital city on Earth, and it was called simply that: “Capital City,” in the sublime confidence of youth.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

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

Know you what it is when anguish, with apocalyptic NEVER, To a Pythian height dilates you, and despair sublimes to power?

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

Sesquioxide of antimony melts easily, and sublimes as a white vapor.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Unified paints containing sublimed white lead are of great value, showing upon long exposure very little decay.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

The sublimed white lead was in fair condition, with very little checking, and offering a fair repainting surface.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

How many common men have not female society and the fervour of youthful passion sublimed into poets!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Corroded white lead, sublimed white lead, zinc oxide, and zinc lead are the standard white opaque pigments.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

This important fact attests the length of time during which chemical processes continue after eruptions, and how open fissures may be filled up laterally by mineral matter, sublimed from volcanic exhalations.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

The development of the latent image by mercury subliming was the most marvellous and unlooked-for part of the process, and it was for that all-important thing that Daguerre was entirely indebted to chance.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by John Werge

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

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

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

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