sublime

Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Not everything in a “Jackass” movie needs to be that sublime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Nothing is more sublime than transitioning from Jimin’s penetrating vocals of “You know how we do!” on “2.0” directly to the deep reverberations of the ancient bell that soothe and reset.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

In 1984, Ayrton Senna demonstrated his potential and sublime wet-weather skills by moving from 13th on the grid up to second place in his Toleman.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

He realized that it makes people feel good and powerful to feel a part of God, a part of the sublime.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

The perchloride of mercury sublimes undecomposed in the bulb, previously undergoing fusion.

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

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 Zweig, Stefan

It will be entirely an original,––such a piece of architecture as he himself would have delighted to describe, and the description of which he, and he only, could have sublimed into poetry.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

Above all, his virtues are the virtues which have been sublimed by Christianity—as it were, the cold embers of morality warmed into religion.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

His heart throbbed with bliss that was unendurable; sense and intellect and soul and spirit were, as it were, sublimed into one white flame of delight.

From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur

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 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

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 Howells, William Dean

Nor here alone the virtue reign’d, By matter’s cumb’rous form detain’d, But thence, subliming, and refin’d, Aspir’d, and reach’d its kindred mind.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Moore, Edward Caldwell

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

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

But I believe he is chiefly meditating on the purging and subliming of what he has already done: and repents that he has published at all yet.

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene

He gave fairly explicit directions for the preparation, including calcination, boiling, drying, adding sal armoniack, subliming twice.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.

Children are very fond of attempting experiments in dying, and are very curious about vegetable dyes; but they can seldom proceed for want of the means of boiling, evaporating, distilling, and subliming.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria