Murad's Nutrient-Charged Water Gel (£50, 50ml) has a sublime texture – light, non-greasy, pleasantly chilling and comforting – and offered such a lasting hit of moisture that I finally think I'm ready for this jelly.
His flute loops and richly detailed synths cast the rapper's machine-gun bursts in a sublime, golden light, like he's rapping while walking around a calm pool in the Versaille sculpture gardens.
If you are able to get there today, for instance, you will experience Anthony McCall's sublime solid-light films, including the great Line Describing a Cone in which an entire gallery is filled with nothing but a single spot of light that gradually grows into a beam and eventually a vast hollow cone picked out with swirling fog.
Desserts range from the sublime — a light-textured, bitter-chocolate charlotte; a lovely, dense chocolate cake; a delicate lemon-tarragon sherbet — to the mere mortal (an undercooked bottom crust on a tart filled with excellent lemon filling, and a damp crust on the lemon cheesecake).
The photographs themselves are at once documents of a civilization past and sublime elegies in light and shadow.
Murray was now in a sublime run, his light touches certain yet delicate, his serve sound, his groundstrokes witheringly deep and his judgment just about perfect.
There is a story, probably apocryphal, that Sternberg once suggested his movies be projected upside down, so that audiences wouldn't be distracted from the sublime play of light and shadow on the screen.
In the fourth movement — the sublime "Urlicht" ("Primal Light"), a setting for mezzo-soprano of a poem from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn," a childlike prayer for delivery from the pain of humankind — Ms. Blythe sang rapturously, with an uncanny combination of effortless power and intimacy.
The fire consuming Notre Dame leaves an untreatable wound — for Parisians, first and foremost; for the French; and for the countless millions of visitors who have stood gaping from every angle at the old cathedral's flying buttresses, its elegant spire, the sublime festival of light admitted by its 13th century stained glass rose windows.
