Many were convinced of his truth simply by his sublime character and supreme moral qualities.
Writing to John Adams in 1813, having taken his razor blade to the books of the New Testament and removed all "the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests," Thomas Jefferson said the 46-page residue contained "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man".
A Shabbat in Hebron -- Abraham's burial place for his wife, Sarah, and home to the oldest Jewish community in the world -- is a moral obligation and a sublime joy.
Symbolic climate is most prominent in romance, whose heroic quests project an aura of erotic mysticism, perfect courtesy, and moral fervour that creates a sublime heightening of tone and a picturesque sense of good order.
A filler-free collection of moral parables, Firehouse Rock's sublime deportment owes much to the passionate vocal presence of Winston Matthews, a contemporary of Bob Marley whose class transcends the future sounds.
The preclusion of women from the experience of the sublime limits their competence to apprehend the moral and existential weight of the might and magnitude of both nature and art.
Mr Blatter's attempt to link the sublime skills of the European champions with the moral squalor of the outfit he has run for the past 13 years was true to form.
In antiquity, literary critics praised her "sublime" style, even as comic playwrights ridiculed her allegedly loose morals.
While Burke associates the beautiful with weakness and femininity, and the sublime with strength and masculinity, Wollstonecraft writes, "for truth, in morals, has ever appeared to me the essence of the sublime; and, in taste, simplicity the only criterion of the beautiful".
It would be difficult to say where the expression of Bangs's moral universe was clearest, because he'd habitually compress a sublime insight into any old photo caption or throwaway remark, in whatever throwaway piece about whatever throwaway band.
