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

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

Mr. Pärt—using small female, male and mixed choirs and divided strings—makes the text hypnotic, a balm even, and on this occasion it proved a sublimely fitting end to programs whose throughline was solace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Lee, sublimely good, is particularly piercing in her portrayal of Hannah’s hard-won grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 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