I. adjective
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I was amazed at his sublime insensitivity to other people's feelings.
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The almond cake is particularly sublime .
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A happy holiday course in a sublime setting sums up Ufford Park nicely.
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But others saw it in a more sublime light.
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Light in texture, it is sublime served with cascades of cream poured over.
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Once the necessary control has been acquired, the two beings are fused and reach sublime spiritual joy.
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They get compared to Kraftwerk quite a lot-mainly because their songs are based around the most sublime melodies.
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We are taught, correctly, that forgiveness is sublime , but often forgiveness leaves us unjustly suspended in emotional conflict.
II. noun
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All of this may seem a digression from what this article set out to be: an inquiry into the sublime .
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Her wordy text clearly aims for the sublime , but it ends up collapsing into the ridiculous.
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In the machine age there was little place for the sublime .
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In the twentieth century experiences of the sublime have been extended to include those which have been made possible by technology.
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It's easy to understand that the vast wilderness encouraged thoughts of the sublime .
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It brings out the worst and the best in people, the ridiculous and the sublime .
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The works range from the sublime , with textured prints in iridescent gold, to humorously eccentric meat and sky collages.