But his invention also represented a more sublime achievement.
Considered by some to be his most sublime achievement, the gisants are a Renaissance idealization of a Gothic convention and possess a depth of emotion that Pilon perhaps never again attained.
Just as we can sit around the kitchen table and discuss operas, movies or novels without being composers, directors or novelists, so we can engage with this subject, one more sublime achievement of accumulated creativity.
This ridiculous, sublime achievement, this jewel in Paris' crown.
Alexander Hamilton embodied all the contradictions of a turbulent period marked by sublime achievements and sharp personal diatribes.
Like many of technology's sublime achievements, organ transplant, for all its promise, also has an unavoidable aspect of horror — the horror of rendering a human being into raw materials, of turning death into life, of harvesting organs from an undead boy.
No other school of acting has produced so many performers drawn to directing themselves, influenced, no doubt, by the sublime achievements of the first and greatest of their ranks, John Cassavetes.
Griffith and others used the magnetic power of travelling shots to limited effect, but it was Murnau who revealed that moving the camera in conjunction with action and locale was an act of almost magical force, an unspoken, majestic poetry that still seems to be one of the form's most sublime achievements.
Whatever the magnificence and the difficulty of Merrill's achievement, Hammer views him as a sublime poet of the everyday, much like Wallace Stevens, another Connecticut man of fixed habits whose mélange of abstraction and gaudiness Merrill admired.
It's the supreme achievement of Apocalypse Now that it manages to exist simultaneously as a sublime relic of golden-era film-making and as an utterly ramshackle mess.
