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
• 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
• Few who witness it ever forget the feeling of sublimity caused by the perception of their own insignificance when set against the spectacular backdrop of the incomprehensible vastness of Donald Trump’s crimes.
  — Nathaniel Stein, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024