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Synonyms for sublime

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Synonyms for sublime

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Synonyms for sublime

vaporize and then condense right back again

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change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting

inspiring awe

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worthy of adoration or reverence

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lifted up or set high

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Philo is clearly charmed by Galileo, who he calls "one of the sublimest" geniuses that ever existed (20).
It is therefore "the most pure sincere, and sublimest juyce in our Body," the "pure Sweet Homogeneous, Balsamick, Vital Juice," the "most highly exalted Liquour of Life" (Galeno-pale, 52; Aimatiasis, 2, 3).
well-dressed congregation:" They dare to parallel (engraven everywhere on the walls of their building and read as the substance of every service) the sublimest utterances of Holy Writ, the choice words of Jesus Christ and St.
Graft on to that winner's mentality, the sublimest skills and you end up with what he was: one of the most effectiive footballers the world ever witnessed.
Beginning with a quote from Hegel that affirms philosophy as "utterly useless" and therefore the "sublimest of all pursuits," Poe proceeds to argue for a philosophical approach to internal decoration that implicitly establishes furniture as a potential source of the sublime ("Furniture" 243).
The continual conversations the knight and squire carry on with one another is the novel's sublimest comedy.
"Working with Audrey, the sublimest jewel in Hollywood's tiara," Zimbalist writes, "was like floating inside the Mona Lisa, behind the smile."
In such a state, "Allah is the ultimate goal, the Quran its constitution, Jihad its means, death for the cause of Allah its sublimest aspiration." (25) This means a total rejection of civil laws, elected institutions, and national attainment as professed by the PLO.
One of the sublimest things in language, the professional farewell of Othello, came rather coldly from him ...
Would one have supposed that Eduard Hanslick, later a staunch advocate of so-called absolute music, would praise Berlioz's scores in 1846 in Prague and call him "the sublimest manifestation in the realm of musical poetry since Beethoven" (quoted, p.
271) 'the faulty people who sit at the same hearth with me' with 'the deeds of heroes I shall never know except by hearsay', and so to 'the sublimest abstract of all clerical graces that was ever conceived by an able novelist.' It might be said in parenthesis that this bears rather hard on Oberlin, who seems conflated with 'the sublimest abstract' though he had still been working among his parishioners, still driving himself very hard, during George Eliot's childhood.
Almost from kick-off he snaked his way down the right wing before picking out Stavrum with the sublimest of passes.
Babbage wrote in 1832, "the arrangements which ought to regulate the interior economy of a manufactory, are founded on principles of deeper root than may have been supposed, and are capable of being usefully employed in preparing the road to some of the sublimest investigations of the human mind." For Babbage and others, to view the application of mechanical reason was also to see the reason of the mind.