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Shaffer has sublimated liberal grief, nostalgia, and fantasy into a sort of allegorical potboiler.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2018

As for Jeff, he has sublimated everything into his movies, "learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2015

Have we taken to good heart the divine record of love, of faith, which an æsthetic age has sublimated into credos, and left actions as a caput mortuum?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various