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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Dana, falling in love with Zorro and out of love with Diego, and being deceived by both, is sublimely affecting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
As the gay and dissipated Ned, Mr. Taylor is sublimely funny: “Johnny Case? Isn’t that a Joan Crawford western?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
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
“Cold Comfort Farm” is a sublimely ridiculous novel about the Starkadders, a rural English family with winter in their hearts and Thomas Hardy in their bones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
