Sentence examples for close to sublime from inspiring English sources
Such efforts are costly, even wasteful, and seem rarely to achieve very much, but when they do, it is close to sublime.
There's something about ballet – the clean curve of those lines, the arched elegance of a foot en pointe – that is as close to sublime as any human ever achieves.
The ride on huge 20-inch wheels is close to sublime and the damping, well, both cars were equipped with Porsche's optional PASM system and felt wonderfully fluent.
And Martin Scorsese has described an obscure sequel, "Frankenstein Created Woman," as "close to something sublime".
For these designers, Rams represents a high point of industrial design, as close to the sublime as it gets.
It is now truly a great relief, something close to a sublime experience, to have nothing more to worry about than death".
Practically any Turner sky could appear on this page but the late skyscapes, generally painted at sunrise, often on the spot, and very nearly abstract, are closer to the sublime than anything in English art.
As one critic wrote: "The dishes are exquisitely calibrated so that one ingredient plays off another, the whole edging ever closer to the sublime".
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Mourinho was peeved, though his emotion changed to admiration when Mata went close to beating Jones with a sublime sand wedge of an attempt with his left foot that caused the goalkeeper to scramble before tipping over.
