How to Use sublimity in a Sentence

sublimity

noun
  • Both have made deadpan a high art form, finding sublimity in the bone-dry.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • 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
  • As for what distinguishes the strongest pieces on the subject, one thing that comes to mind is an acute awareness of sublimity.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 June 2026
  • The gorgeous choral crescendos have a dark sublimity in which irony is abandoned for something helplessly true.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The sublimity of his skill occasions no relief, but, rather, the opposite.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The movie whispers poetic sublimities in your ear one minute and tosses its prestige ambitions in your face the next.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But that grandeur, sublimity, and loveliness Roosevelt spoke of?
    — Katherine Lagrave, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The performance was one of a plethora of sublimities in a concert (her first in six years) that could best be described as, well, cinematic.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • Tucked back behind the strings, even McDermott blends in with the ensemble, adding to the sublimity of the whole sound.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gogol creates conversations so insipid as to achieve a kind of negative sublimity.
    — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • What carries the drama toward sublimity, though, is Hadi’s way with the physical world and his characters’ place in it.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Church went to the Holy Land in search of sublimity; Twain fastened on the absurdities of those determined to find it.
    — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • For every culture and faith, religious art is the zenith of beauty, sublimity, sophistication, and awe.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Their sublimity lay on the other side of all my attempts to summon them with language—these habitats of light, cubes of sky, sustained by quiet, metallic respiration.
    — Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • One senses a flirtation with horror here, and the same dark sublimity resides in the poem itself, which, beneath its wealth and manners, is extremely metal.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • 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

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