This modern form of sublimity is more complex than mere technophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation] Reference
In this volume religious sublimity is clothed in childlike simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
The very sublimity is the cause of the difficulty of the style, and of the presence of peculiar expressions occurring, not found elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
And this, by their disciples, is called the sublimity of speculation!. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
That sublimity, which is one manifestation of beauty, is of the spirit, and by the spirit it must be apprehended. From Wordnik.com. [The Enjoyment of Art] Reference
For the latter is characterised by sublimity which is for the most part rugged, Cicero by profusion. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime] Reference
Altogether, there had been a kind of sublimity from the first about the way the family had taken that ‘affair.’. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
The Road, the film achieves a kind of sublimity in its extremity. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Despite the unrelieved hardship of The Road, the film achieves a kind of sublimity in its extremity. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Altogether, there had been a kind of sublimity from the first about the way the family had taken that 'affair.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
The sublimity which is effected by sparkling speeches is better, if the speeches really have something in them beneath the sparkles. From Wordnik.com. [Thackeray] Reference
Mr. Bolling rose in his remarks to a height of moral sublimity. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Any of these drawings might inspire loneliness or sublimity or repose. From Wordnik.com. [ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest] Reference
The Alps, piled in cold and still sublimity, are an image of despotism. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The majesty and sublimity of the stupendous works of the great Author and. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It was a noble sight, full of moral sublimity, and worthy of all admiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
It combines sublimity with asceticism and wickedness, in a most marvellous manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
It made him the matchless story-teller, and gave sublimity to his graver addresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It would be grand to visit Niagara, and bring home in their souls the sublimity of the falls. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Like the text itself, this production is a hotchpotch of silliness, crude humour and sublimity. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Faustus] Reference
It has beauty of form and sublimity in proportions, even if it lacks originality in conception. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
All these are on such a scale of sublimity that no pen can adequately describe nor brush portray them. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
With such a nature, everything was possible: the sublimity of devotion, or a fall into the lowest infamy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The majesty and sublimity of the scene suggest another world, not, indeed, an "Inferno," but a "Paradiso.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
The learned have cited the first verses of this book as specimens of sublimity unequalled by any language. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
No triumphal procession of earth's mightiest conqueror ever equaled for sublimity that lonely journey through. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Oh, do not think it necessary to behold Nature in her great stretches of sublimity in order to appreciate her. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
That simile, then considered the height of sublimity, had a powerful effect in furthering the writer's fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Is this some trite attempt to subvert the Santa Clausian sublimity of Handel's "Messiah" with perverse postmodernism?. From Wordnik.com. [BIRTH OF A BREAKTHROUGH] Reference
In dignity and sublimity Sophocles takes the lead, as Euripides does in tenderness, feeling, and pathetic expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
It is certain that, unless it be his beauty, nothing could equal the sublimity of his discourses, ever full of inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Two empty buckets came up as two full ones went down, travelling with a certain sublimity along the double rope of woven wire. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Melancholy as it was, one sees a certain sublimity in the woman's act of selecting and carrying with her those warlike keepsakes. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Micah with his earnestness; Nahum with his sublimity; and Zephaniah with his severity, take their place in about equal succession. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Wit and humor, pathos and sublimity may sometimes be found in the same play, and smiles and tears may be drawn from the same page. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
It seemed strange enough, to lie there in that tropical forest, listening to an enthusiastic description of the rugged sublimity of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
There was absolute sublimity in his pale silence, as he allowed witness after witness to pass from the box unchallenged -- unquestioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Tall mountains, crowned with verdure, rise in awful sublimity around; a river runs through, and bright flowers grow to the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
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