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ADVERB
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in a lofty and exalted manner
it is an enormous, fruit-packed wine, smelling sublimely of ripe blackcurrants -
to the maximum degree
she remained sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused
he was supremely confident
He seemed irritated at Edouard's questions but, apart from that, sublimely unconcerned
How To Use sublimely In A Sentence
- Tarkovsky sublimely prefigures space exploration with a five minute sequence of cars winding through the tunnels and overpasses of a modern Russian city.
- she remained sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused
- Mrs Trollope was sublimely uninterested in what she herself wore.
- Personal fave tracks on here would probably have to be the sublimely funky "Cool Steel" by The Firebirds, Wolf Baki's dreamlike "With You Alone" and the light and fluffy flutey "Street Waltz" from The Sante Palumbo Group. Archive 2010-01-01
- From fiery jerk dishes to sublimely sweet mangoes, the foods of Jamaica are exciting and comforting.
- At its best - the sublimely tender first movement - the effects were hypnotic. Times, Sunday Times
- In the movie, Reynolds plays a widow sublimely adjusted to retired life in San Francisco.
- He had the wonderful [black] character tenor Stephen Cole play the scene as the Covent Garden Sutherland in "Lucia," down to the white hoop dress, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything as sublimely funny in my life. Flattery, the sincerest form of
- But I understand: "The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle," I suppose too much has been spent, said and done, and too many hirelings have too much invested, for such a sublimely aleatic solution to occur. Marshall Grossman: Clinton, Obama: A Modest Proposal in Lieu of a Badly Wrecked Train
- Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees. Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty
