Sentence examples for sublime exercise from inspiring English sources
His string-laden theme to the iconic 1965 spy thriller The Ipcress File, preceded here by a tearful video tribute from its star, Michael Caine, remains a sublime exercise in muted, suspenseful menace.
In The Poetics, Aristotle identifies reversal as an essential aspect of great drama: the mighty fall, the blind see, the disgraced achieve redemption, etc. Obama's rise to frontrunner status was, then, a sublime exercise in reversal, not just Hillary's unexpected defeat in Iowa but the unraveling of an interminable year in which the story was her "inevitability".
Next came Schubert's G-Major Sonata, D. 894, an exercise in sublime but sublimated lyricism that can erupt into shocking explosions.
When Mary was published, the title page included a quotation from Rousseau: "L'exercice des plus sublimes vertus éleve et nourrit le génie" ("the exercise of the most sublime virtues raises and nourishes genius").
No longer were they wordless fantasies or expressions of the sublime, but composites of these exercises, meant to be practiced with the same clinical attention to detail.
But it offers absolutely none of the consoling hope of this summer's other great exercise in Gallic anthropomorphism, the sublime animated feature "Ratatouille".
Meanwhile, Bruce Soord and Jonas Renkse's sublime Wisdom of Crowds is a mesmerising and melancholy exercise in wonderfully subtle songcraft, Soord's inspired arrangements combining exquisitely with his comrade's unerringly evocative voice.
THE word "restraint" is probably not often associated with the actor/rocker Jack Black, but the restraint he and the director Richard Linklater exercise in SCHOOL OF ROCK (2003) make the film a funny, sublime gem.
The Arts should, therefore, be protected as the most sublime forms of Free Expression, for, even if extreme, they can be exercised without implicit destruction or direct cost to others.
