Verb (used with object) : To read about great men sublimates ambition. From Dictionary.com.
London would seem to have "sublimated" his love for poetry as opposed to abandoning it. From Wordnik.com. [Poems from the Dan Wichlan Collection] Reference
Forever 21 likes to call this technique "sublimated". From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
A kind of sublimated egotism, he said to himself, after all!. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Connie] Reference
Its expression is more furtive and it's often mixed with a kind of sublimated shame, but it can be every bit as vitriolic. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I have met with, and treated, as my book shows, fifty-seven cases of this kind of vision, which I term indifferently "sublimated,". From Wordnik.com. [Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle] Reference
This world isn't a kind of sublimated children's party. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"sublimated" into the higher sorts of idealism, and especially into æsthetic idealism. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
Not feeling herself worthy to join this sublimated throng. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
A gleam of hope, forcasted furture, you have sublimated me. From Wordnik.com. [Heather] Reference
The foreign matter sublimated, rose in a foggy sparkle, and dispersed. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
He is a very clever man, and might be cleverer if he were less sublimated. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
The thought is tense and sublimated, and the style glowing, musical and polished. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
All those issues really have been sublimated by our focus on Middle Eastern affairs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2004] Reference
Her face was radiant, her cheeks pink -- she seemed to glow with a sublimated happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Her showroom is like a sublimated hotel lobby -- tea is served there for visitors every afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Clearly, for years, she sublimated her own interest to help Bill Clinton achieve political success. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2009] Reference
Others, and they included the majority in both these categories, sublimated their frustration in work. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
It seems to me that the issue before the world is between Christianity and a more or less sublimated form of. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
"Make" was launched in March 2005 to awaken those sublimated, age-old impulses to understand how things work. From Wordnik.com. [Geekapalooza] Reference
I think the idea of Jacqueline Kennedy's evening dresses often is that grand decoration is sort of sublimated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2001] Reference
He may thus reach a high altitude of purely spiritual perception; but it is, after all, a sublimated selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
No matter how evil be the comic object, we do not seek to destroy or remodel it; action is sublimated into laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
And evangelicals have convoluted message, sublimated that message to a political agenda, they have missed the point. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006] Reference
She picked up her basket beside the photographic car, her face so sublimated it seemed never to have known any other look. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
We have practiced Democracy in our organization and we have sublimated it into the most perfect of Democratic organizations. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
Yet the difference between his Pantheism and our Atheism is only perceptible to the microscopic eye of super-sublimated spiritualism. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
I was endowed with something more than cool energy; or, rather, cool energy was heightened and sublimated by the fire of an ardent nature. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
But while the score is sublimated from Piaf's original, written by Charles Dumont and recorded in 1960, it does not rely on a direct excerpt. From Wordnik.com. [Inception soundtrack created entirely from Edith Piaf song] Reference
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