sublime
adjective
elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
sublimely
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a word derived from
sublime.
Example Sentences
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As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, described Clay on a visit to the White House, wearing “with a sublimely unconscious air, three pistols and an Arkansas toothpick”—his Bowie knife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Shirley Jackson’s wizardry is to make the bizarre seem utterly natural, a talent on full display in this sublimely creepy novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Rambunctious and astute, the toddler heroine of the sublimely beautiful animated film “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” first communicates in voiceover from the void of nothingness before birth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
It bloomed best, most sublimely, in the middle of an emotional flareup of just this kind.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
