Example Sentences

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Surely, he admonished, “its beauty was enhanced by wrecks like this, and it acquired thus a rarer and sublimer beauty still.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects.

From Time Magazine Archive

After Laura's death his love was tranquilized to a sublimer music.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Yet the sublime is the true field of this poet, and sublimer thoughts than his were surely never spoken.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Don't utterly forget those asses,— Ridden so long,—the lower classes; But waking from sublimer visions, Just see, poor things! to their provisions.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various