How to Use sublimity in a Sentence

sublimity

noun

• The hushed sublimity of the halls of the Rand Corp. circa 1970 has given way.
  — Jordy Rosenberg, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• And, in the sublimity of the moment, Hsieh could see it—the plot, the characters, the environment.
  — Joe Hsieh, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2022
• Both have made deadpan a high art form, finding sublimity in the bone-dry.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• In many ways, Cuyahoga Valley can’t compete with the scale or sublimity of the national parks in the West.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Beauty and sublimity didn’t just come in the form of white face, or the form of literature written by black males.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Last Black Man is also a film about the sublimity of nostalgia—how a longing to return to the past can both hurt and sustain you.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 7 June 2019
• Duende is the Spanish word for it: the prickle on the skin, the ax-edge of experience, sublimity freeze-framed—even a shining closeness to death.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• And despite the flurry, the gentle breeze from the Sabarmati river brought with it a sense of Wordsworthian sublimity.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 24 Feb. 2020
• But the fog from the night before had cleared, and their isolation in that huge, ugly place turned the sublimity of their offering into the ridiculous.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 June 2021
• This is not the kind of sublimity that lets a reader lose herself in the immersive detail of narrative.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 4 Aug. 2017
• Expect sublimity as one of the greatest conductors of our time and one of our greatest pianists meet on a program featuring two works from the heart of the canon.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2022
• This is the sublime, but in Aldred’s hands its not a domineering sublimity that seeks to own the landscape, to assert the ubiquity of the human soul.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
• But those rows of blank windows and unvarying girders and columns, the unadorned stone carapaces and glass skins, take on their own sublimity.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• The sublimity of his skill occasions no relief, but, rather, the opposite.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• The gorgeous choral crescendos have a dark sublimity in which irony is abandoned for something helplessly true.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• The sublimity of Esther’s airborne monologue thus stands in marked contrast to the movie around it, which remains stubbornly earthbound.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• In both quartets, the Calidore approached the kind of sublimity other quartets spend a lifetime seeking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• In that setting, Jafa’s video feels less like a surprising blow and more like a logical conclusion, in all its terror and its sublimity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• But that grandeur, sublimity, and loveliness Roosevelt spoke of?
  — Katherine Lagrave, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2019
• For me, the show reaches its peak of sublimity in the work of Dustin Yellin, who creates convincing unreal worlds by painting on multiple layers of glass.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• For most, to climb the high peaks of the Himalayas is to reach for a kind of remoteness, where sublimity may be experienced, human character and endurance may be tested.
  — Ipsita Chakravarty, Quartz India, 10 June 2019
• Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity, and loveliness.
  — Katherine Lagrave, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2019
• No artist did more to celebrate the sublimity that can come from understatement or the grace derived from keeping cool under pressure.
  — Ted Gioia, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• Although Anor Londo is a wonder based on its sunset alone, the people — or deities — who inhabit the city also contribute to its sublimity.
  — Cian Maheer, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• As is the case with so many of nature’s once-rare features, some scientists think climate change and resource depletion will make more rivers more ephemeral — a sublimity too cheaply got.
  — Noah Gallagher Shannon, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
• For a delirious while, fueled by Mr. Waltz and Ms. Chau’s zigzagging comic energies, we are transported to a land beyond genre, a zone of pure comic sublimity.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• Surely the justices on the highest court in the country should have encountered at one moment or another in their storied careers the sublimity, the terror, of this decision.
  — Emily Cooke, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• The terrifying sublimity of her fury is on view during that trip to Germany, where the former mayor of Nordhausen organizes a meeting with her and hosts a dinner in her honor.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2021
• The film, in its tendency to embrace the unanticipated, reflects the wide-eyed sublimity in facing the unknown that is also inherent to being a teen-ager.
  — The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• Erstwhile bank robber Rafael (Brandon Ocasio, radiating spot-on verve and earnestness) has learned from Montrellous to aspire to sandwich sublimity.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024