For all their sublime reference points - the Cure, Talking Heads, Blondie - there's something Stepfordian about them.
"It was excruciating, and frightening, and exhilarating, and empowering, and sublime at points, and my feet are still recovering," she recalled of her trip.
It was a performance where the visuals were just as exciting as the music, making for a sublime union and pointing a way forward for audiovisual collaborations.
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If you want to see the Grand Canyon as it used to be, head for the North Rim village, hire a sturdy 4WD and take the 16-mile, restricted-access trail to Point Sublime.
Then it's on to the Kantian sublime: stretching a point rather, Smith discovers Kant's description of the vertiginous apprehension of forces that dwarf reason in your first frenchie: "kissing becomes silence, rational speech cut off, causing us literally to be dumbstruck".
His corrections were sublime: to the point, witty, and self-effacing.
In a review of the opera that uses the word "sublime" at one point to describe Bernstein's score, Anthony Tommasini wrote of it in the Times: "The lingering criticism of "A Quiet Place" is that the piece is an awkward hybrid both musically and dramatically.
It was sublime, an absolute high point.
Standing before a sublime landscape — at one point, a lightning storm rages in the distance — and captured from behind, Mr. Gladwell echoes Friedrich's humans standing before dramatic landscapes, which served as surrogates for the viewers of his paintings.
