Sentence examples for definition of the sublime from inspiring English sources

The Faroes bring to mind Edmund Burke's definition of the sublime: "tranquillity tinged with terror".

It was also like that definition of the sublime: awe verging on terror.

Scientists often talk of beauty when describing concepts or solutions, and I think this relates to that definition of the sublime, but there is an overlying idea contained within beauty and sublime that ties together the process of artists, scientists and a more general human perception.

Blake dismissed the idea of using allegory within his works except, as he wrote in a letter to Butts, 6 July 1803, "Allegory Address'd to the intellectual powers, while it is altogether hidden from the Corporeal Understanding, is My Definition of the Most Sublime Poetry".

With back to back debuts of two Thursday night comedies — "Welcome to Sweden" and "Working the Engels" — NBC offers up a near-perfect definition of the term "from the sublime to the ridiculous".

Set in the forest of historical Romania, it features both types of romance – true love as well as the traditional definition, the sublime and mysterious.

It is the thrill of the sublime.

From "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), two visions of the sublime.

In the Bible, air is the realm of the sublime.

Happily, the season of the sublime is nigh.

Nothing — except the pursuit of the sublime!