"sublime idea" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a profound, awe-inspiring, or transcendent thought or concept. Example: "The poet's words conveyed a sublime idea of love that left the audience speechless."
In the musical version, directed and choreographed here with huge flair by Jerry Mitchell, there is the sublime idea of sending her UCLA sorority cohorts with her to Harvard in the shape of a spectral Greek tragedy chorus.
Would, Should, Can, Did may be a sign that Michael Clark is entering a more mature stage: that the shock he once achieved with props is now generated by a crisp, arcing, sublime idea.
This show's great first room aside, its heart belongs to Morris, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Mel Bochner, Michael Asher, and other cerebral types whose art works function mainly as illustrations of theoretical (and occasionally, at least in Smithson's case, poetically sublime) ideas.
Friedrich proves that an experience of the capital-"S" Sublime — the idea of malign beauty, then in vogue — doesn't require a storm in the Alps.
Of these Black Comedy, still much performed in schools, is a sublime comic idea in which the usual rules of theatre lighting are reversed: when we can see the characters, they are behaving as if in darkness, but, when the lights are out, they act as if we can see them.
His friend the artist Liam Gillick sees Obrist's taste in art as made up in equal measure of "the melancholic sublime and the idea of the productive machine".
With previous work, this has often involved breaking a concept down into fundamentals that can be understood, and always trying to look for the beauty and sublime within the idea behind the work.
Bernard Shaw scoffed at the idea of sublime passion, and wrote a Caesar and Cleopatra in which the queen of Egypt is a petulant teenager.
(Smith) Edmund de Waal: 'Atemwende' (closes on Saturday) If you like the work of Robert Ryman, Ken Price, Cy Twombly, Giorgio Morandi, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst, the small elegant porcelain vessels in subtle blacks or whites by the author of the best-selling memoir, "Hare With Amber Eyes," may be your idea of sublime.
Yet much of what we call poetry consists of trite or false ideas in sublime language.
The result, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) emphasized, unsurprisingly, the activity of mind in making ideas and the influence of these upon conduct.
