Dori Caymmi's Like a Lover is a sublime reflection, and Manfred Eicher's production superbly captures Winstone's upper-range purity and the sonorities of reeds and keys on Gesing's gliding Sisyphus.
A Kiefer could deliver a sublime punch while stirring reflections on sinister modern history.
The movie's spare, sharp dialogue offers some sublime and original theological reflections and revisitations of Old and New Testament themes that are more than asides — they're the characters' own guideposts for action.
Indeed, its final moments were so sublime in their surprising reflections on all that had come before that I came away wanting to watch the entire series all over again from what would now be an entirely different point of view.
For Bloom and other Straussians (followers of the German-émigré philosopher Leo Strauss), the ideal student is morally earnest and sexually naive, a young man brimming with unspent eros, which the teacher can help him sublimate — that is, transform into an erotic attraction to the sublime objects of philosophical reflection.
His late, sublime "Water Lilies" is literally that: reflections of light, clouds and foliage against the surface of his pond at Giverny, Monet's erotic, mysterious, multicolored abyss of shimmering, indefinite space, which kind of describes memory itself.
"Museum Hours," Jem Cohen's quietly amazing, sneakily sublime new film, is partly a reflection on such aesthetic puzzles.
Wollstonecraft's style was also a deliberate choice, enabling her to respond to Burke's Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful as well as to Reflections.
Rather than offering a sublime excess of content as the proliferating reflection of an active mind, they offer pieces of a puzzle.
His six-volume "Mathnawi" is a compendium of inspired reflection, entertaining and sometimes earthy stories, sublime flights of inspiration, metaphysical subtleties and occasionally vulgar jokes, all of which relentlessly, consistently and coherently reflect his perspective on reality.
