Writer and director John Morton has, admittedly, the best of sublime comedy talent to work with.
They are the apotheosis of port making and, at their best, are sublime.
"The task of kitsch", says Nerdrum, "is to create a seriousness in life, at its best so sublime it will bring the laughter to a quiet.
Big Moe's best tracks are sublime and disorienting.
At its best it is sublime, and if at its worst it's pseudy, it is at least self-mockingly pseudy.
Unlike Rafael Nadal's drubbing of his countryman Feliciano Lopez, which looked like a foregone conclusion early in the first set, the Federer-Tomic match had tense moments throughout, as Federer had to play at his sublime best to beat the rapidly improving Tomic.
She was at her best in the sublime aria "Per pietà, ben mio," in which Fiordiligi realizes that just in feeling desire for this potential new lover she has already betrayed her fiancé and confronts the agonizing complexity of her emotions.
The left-armer wasn't at his sublime best, as you would expect from any fast bowler who hasn't played for so long but the 26-year-old's mix of express pace and late swing remained as potent as ever.
Though her best records are sublime, as a live performer she can be frustrating to say the least, and even tonight kept stopping the show, first to exort everyone to put their phones away, then to battle through the crowd to one side of the room and then the other in search of the night's most ardent Missy fans.
Swansea have often saved their sublime best for the television cameras with comprehensive triumphs over promoted Norwich City and Leeds United.
