Sentence examples for sublime failure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Addison elicited laughs just by reading the title of "Studies in Sublime Failure," which was won for $40.

"New obstacles shall be established by the chairman of failure," Donnelly writes, as though the American sublime is being made to sit through a staff meeting at Stevens's Academy of Fine Ideas.

He considers Hamlet "most certainly the supreme artistic success in western literature", and is outraged by his bête noire TS Eliot's declaration that the play is an artistic failure, although he does concede that is "a sublime ruin".

And when he sings his biggest and best songs — for instance, "Looks Like We Made It," that triumphant ode to romantic failure (which was, sadly, absent from Tuesday's concert) — he collapses the distance between sublime and ridiculous.

Sublime moments.

Fairly sublime.

The finish was sublime.

The results are sublime.

Filming, sublime.

Rylance, sublime.

** Most sublime.