How To Use sublimity In A Sentence
- This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity The Pontiff Is In...
- Although rendered with detailed realism the particular was always subordinate to the general effect of transcendent beauty or sublimity.
- Sublimity, last year's hero, could only finish fourth. The Sun
- 2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window Notes
- Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- Her innocence exchang'd for guilty state; Whatever you write, in every golden line Sublimity and elegance combine; Thy nervous phrase impresses every soul, While harmony gives rapture to the whole. ' Life Of Johnson
- Ancient Egyptians knew the sublimity of exterior space (think of the pyramids under moonlight), but interior space for them was darkness and clutter.
- There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
- Huddled clapboard houses substitute for the raw-plank architecture of the frontier town; an industrial bridge provides background sublimity in the absence of mountains.
- That the ass, which in its very degradation still retains an under-power of sublimity, [Footnote: '_An under-power of sublimity_.' Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2
