As pretty much every reviewer under the sun has been required to point out, Daniel Mullins' sublime Steam title Pony Island is not a game about ponies.
Interestingly, like "American Sublime," the titles of these two earlier shows evoke the mystical dimension of landscape painting in the United States.
Developer NanaOn-Sha's sublime rhythm-action title for the original PlayStation, released in late 1996 (and ten years later on the PSP handheld), was a cult phenomenon of the mid-'90s, spawning a spin-off game, UmJammer Lammy, and its own TV show, not to mention a sequel proper for the PS2.
Andy Murray became the first British man to reach a Wimbledon final for over 70 years in July but was prevented from winning the title by a sublime Roger Federer.
In 1908, in conjunction with the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he proclaimed the de jure independence of Bulgaria from the Sublime Porte and assumed the title of tsar.
Human Performance feels like a logical progression, with slightly stronger material, most notably the title track, a sublime slice of brooding garage rock, and the emotional dislocation of Berlin Got Blurry.
Paul Theroux's latest book is The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Hamish Hamilton, £16.99) The Global Soul, by Pico Iyer Pico Iyer was the writer who showed me how to take the Open Road (also the title of his sublime study of the Dalai Lama).
Thus "A Sublime Madness" was born, its title taken from a concept by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who once wrote that a certain "sublime madness" is required to do battle against the forces of injustice. .
Mr. Addison elicited laughs just by reading the title of "Studies in Sublime Failure," which was won for $40.
