In India, it takes years of meditation to reach a sublime state of bliss.
Their lacquered industrial finish reveals no trace of the artist's hand, which he intends as a postmodern contribution to the spiritually sublime state that, historically, certain artists sought to invoke.
For the Huichols, this sublime state of balance is what gratitude is all about.
Just as the other arts, painting, music, poetry, cinema…, it has become another way of expression of the human being, who often reflects on his master pieces the compendium of the feelings and thoughts of a whole generation, an epoch, or even sublime states of the soul, capable to transmit, in just one masterpiece, the essence of our nature to the next generations.
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As they left, I remember whispering to myself in a state of sublime terror: "I am never going swimming again, I am never going swimming again…" This, of course, had been the reaction of millions of cinemagoers in the US, where Jaws had become a summer movie sensation.
I can vividly recall first listening to the tapes -- a clever mix of singles, album cuts, live tracks and b-sides spanning their entire career -- repeatedly until the cassettes virtually dissolved; truly a sublime experience (the mediocre state of mid-90's audio equipment notwithstanding).
Don't you think it's fun to have a bottle of wine that was released the same month you got engaged?" "Pleasure" carries a hint of the sublime; it speaks of a state of mind that comes organically, that need not be artificially induced.
Leave your phone behind and enjoy the sublime views of the 49th state's wildlife.
Look at his exposed rib cage; this is nature in its most sublime and its most cruel state.
Instead, the Internet Age simply buffets us with so many fleeting moments of metamodern sublimity that we live in a heightened state of awareness of the sublime.
