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While many loved the elegant art piece, made all the more sublime by the artist’s invisibility, others condemned the incursion of any man-made object in pristine desert.

On the other hand, single conifers have a capacity to dazzle as sublime specimens or to drag a landscape down.

That made the ice in the mix sublime — move directly from a solid to a gas.

First, there’s the sublime look of joy on Luke’s face as Jess says, “I was attacked by a swan.”

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The essential kindness and sublime silliness of one terrific franchise.

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From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.

“I have thought that no incident in the life of Jackson was more truly sublime than this,” wrote Hill.

The decision brings the Military more in line with its veterans who have seen combat and found nothing sublime in war.

“It seems like volunteers for ISIS are surfing for the sublime,” Atran wrote to me on Sunday.

We did it by knowing that the writing is really sublime and just opening yourself to it.

On such occasions his unfaltering impudence reached heights truly sublime.

Byron wrote dashingly about 'sublime Tobacco,' but I do not think he carried the practice to excess.

To fall from the sublime to the ridiculous is especially awkward, and results in becoming very particularly ridiculous yourself.

It was thronged with motorists who generally dashed along in sublime disregard of the speed limits.

It is to him that we are indebted for all knowledge of the sublime scenes enacted at the last supper of the Girondists.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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