Sentence examples for sublimities from inspiring English sources
The early 19th-century escapist was a poet, packing his bags and setting out for the sublimities of the Alps in which he would find, in solitude, his soul; leaving behind a pile of debt and bastards, and hoping no one would pursue him.
Armed with more than this, they would find their attention drawn away from the sublimities of art to the more approachable concerns of humanity (such as representation).
And what about the silly, leg-flinging dances that are offered as those sublimities?
What about the snap of the fingers with which our hero turns life's tragedies into art's sublimities?
Just as the camera picks up infinitesimal subtleties of performance and projects them into wall-sized sublimities, it can inflate wildly intense stage acting into excess and absurdity.
"Mel Allen's life was one long, extended, exhaustive, triumphant prayer," he said, "a call to us to see the sublimities of the stolen sign or the first seasonal shifts of the wind".
But Kant actually analyzes three main forms of aesthetic experience the experience of beauty, paradigmatically natural beauty; the experience of the sublime, again paradigmatically of sublimity in nature; and the experience of fine art and each of these forms of aesthetic experience ultimately reveals distinctive connections to morality.
One is elemental awe: to board a ship is still to step into an in-between world, perhaps the only one this side of the grave defined equally by boredom and sublimity.
By then, England was the first country in the world where the majority of the population would be living in cities (albeit riddled with tuberculosis, for which a winter visit to the Alps in due course became de rigueur).Initially, mountain scenery was a cause of fear and dread, sublimity's exhibit A for the Romantic mind.
True or false, there is a sublimity in the speculations of geologists which fascinates the imagination.
The style, if that is the word, is somewhere between kitsch and sublimity, with Graeco-Roman columns here, Babylonian motifs there, some Versailles and Neuschwanstein, a bit of Zen Buddhism, some stained-glass church windows, and so forth.Uniquely Beverly Hills, in short.
