Examples of sublimity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And, in the sublimity of the moment, Hsieh could see it—the plot, the characters, the environment. — Joe Hsieh, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2022 Watching him may elicit wonder at his cosmic luck—a mathematical sublimity. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022 Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity, and loveliness. — Katherine Lagrave, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2019 Ray is an artistic and philosophical provocateur whose ever-startling creations look back in spirit, if rarely in appearance, to the sublimity of ancient Greek art. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022 Williams studied with Gordon Lish (and, before that, with Philip Roth), but her minimalism is distinctive for its sublimity and its spirituality, its ability to evoke the laws of a world apart. — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021 With its cupola on a gallery above a balustrade over a colonnade on a plinth, the many-layered little temple distills High Renaissance sublimity into a compact package. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021 One senses a flirtation with horror here, and the same dark sublimity resides in the poem itself, which, beneath its wealth and manners, is extremely metal. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021 In that setting, Jafa’s video feels less like a surprising blow and more like a logical conclusion, in all its terror and its sublimity. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021 See More

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