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‘When we relate this reverence to our experience of the sublime, we have a sense, however fleeting, of the transcendental.’.

‘The distanced position of the spectator obviates the emotional experience of the sublime.’.

‘These higher, most truly profound realms of sublime human emotional experience are closed to the monkey.’.

‘The sublime transformed itself into feminine agency, the ability to occupy a space in an active way so as not to be utterly overwhelmed by the sublime effect of nature.’.

‘And hearing it played on the radio by the finest exponents remains a sublime experience for thousands.’.

‘Westminster station, one of the most dramatic on the Jubilee Line, is sublime in the proper sense of the word: awesome in both experience and execution.’.

‘It is, however, perceived as pure and religious, mythical and, in a banal sense, sublime.’.

‘Utzon is, of all the great modern architects, the least afraid to admit a sense of the sublime into his architecture.’.

‘Golden light flooding up the valley creates the sense of the sublime so often invoked by Bierstadt.’.

‘Echoing Cole's sense of the sublime, geologists saw the landscape as a dynamic expression of inhuman forces operating over vast stretches of time.’.

‘While Turner was a complex and eclectic artist, much of his work is suffused with a Romantic sense of nature's sublime power and wonder.’.

‘They are pictorially beautiful, but I think they lacked the sense of the sublime grandeur that they were supposed to evoke.’.

‘He said it inspired a sense of the sublime - the massive, overpowering effect of awe demanded by something bigger and stronger than we are.’.

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‘This simple plot is developed masterfully through a narrative technique which employs a series of vignettes giving an appropriately hazy yet sublime sense of situation and setting.’.

‘Relying on his emotions as a stimulus, Lepe's work is both sublime and intuitive.’.

‘When Beethoven is out of fashion, that is because people are afraid of drama and of sublime emotions.’.

‘I have heard and reviewed many great performances of this sublime work but this must take the cake for emotional intensity.’.

‘The sublime (as distinct from the merely pleasurable) is not primarily a matter of reflection and comparison.’.

‘His final album is a masterpiece of raw emotions, sublime melodies, and achingly beautiful lyrics.’.

‘The park also presents a curious mix of the sublime and ridiculous, and sometimes, quite bizarre, so you really do need a receptive mind.’.

‘Where can one who rejects the alternative of the sublime horror or the ridiculous degradation seek the image of a man with a reason to fight for a this-worldly ideal?’.

‘In each religion we discover the interweaving of the sublime and the ridiculous, the liberatory and the oppressive, the radical and the conventional.’.

‘The sublime jostled with the ridiculous for attention as Edmonton's Thespians donned their finest plumage to dazzle, bewilder and delight.’.

‘The sublime beauty of it all, Mann tells us, is ‘too much, too blest for sinful mortals’.’.

‘They are creations of sublime visual beauty and sensuality dreamlike chiaroscuro and stifling decorative excess form the backdrop for melodrama pervaded by a diffuse sexuality.’.

‘This valley of hellish heat and human misery is also a place of stark, sublime beauty.’.

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