Examples of sublime

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The 'elevated' works of the twentieth century are generally concerned with the anti-sublime, the socially mixed, and give minute attention to their own language.
Nothing distracts or disenchants the mind engaged by these sublime objects.
Sublime moments of creation are either transiently performed or statically commemorated and 'recalled' in the oratorio.
The first is that the sublime character of the drum arouses pity.
Again, the negative example (here in an emphatic, sublime way) is used to educate the listener's patriotic sensibilities.
Another group of works aspires to the sublime rather than the ridiculous, conflating the exposed teeth of the singer with those of the rapt mystic.
As we have seen, intemperance can be due to a wide range of conditions, from the ridiculous to the sublime.
The visitor then enters a sublime space which, on approach, opens out in plan, and in the vertical dimension, to the sky.
There is nothing sublime in this kind of practical, scientific astral travel.
Gone are the confines of the castle, bedroom, or sickroom: the chase now encompasses sublime landscapes, and is carried out with fevered energy.
All emotions of the sublime have more fascination for [the melancholic] than the enticing charms of the beautiful.
The products of creation itself - the depiction of which makes up much the larger part of the work - 'withdraws' the sublime.
What exactly does one perceive in a sublime historical experience?
The idea of an origin is itself a strange periphery and a focus of sublime awe.
Whatever writers did, and they did pretty much everything, readers ignored the imperial sublime.
His music world sounds at times ferocious and savage, at times sublime and conciliatory...
Rather, they might be viewed as an extension of romanticism, a desire for the unknown, the exciting, and the sublime.
In the habitat diorama, the wilderness is represented as the sublime.
The painting is justly famous for the sublime achievement of the warm glow of the sun on the sea.
The scientific limits on the little totality rule out any full instantiation of the mathematically sublime.
The tradition of the sublime and an attachment to the thrill of being at the top of a mountain cut across accounts of colonial travellers and surveyors.
The sublime is an emotion shaping itself from an intuitive awareness into infinity and eternity as the depth of the self, which is unreachable, while allowing infinite progress.
The sublime emerges in presentations of great industrial structures and, of course, of the big city.
If the supremacy of the sign over the human body is signalled by the black flag of the last chapter, petrifaction is at its most sublime in the penultimate chapter.
Biographies, not only of the band but also of individual members past and present, number into three figures and cover a wide spectrum from the sublime to the salacious.
They preferred to produce elegies, comedies, and, finally and most famously, psychological novels which had little to do with the sublime and effectively subverted the authoritative.
A dense, highly symbolic, non-linear, nonnarrative, and often extremely vulgar text was woven in sublime poetic language and presented in a visually arresting form by a superb director and cast.
Although the original experience of the sublime was almost inevitably visual, its artistic rendering, which could produce an equally vivid sublime experience, was not necessarily so.
The sublime inspired respect, the beautiful only love.
I wish to draw attention to our nation's greatest, sublime and soaring monuments; the cathedrals.
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