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  • For Burke, the efficient cause of the "delight" occasioned by the experience of the Sublime is the power of terrible objects to "clear the parts" of the nervous system of dangerous and debilitating blockages arising from mental lassitude, that is, from persistent states of boredom and ennui.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • See also Françoise Viatte, "Lavis d'Indigo et Papiers Bleus," in Sublime Indigo, 75 – 78 back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • In short, the condition of the possibility of sensus communis, which Kant invokes in "The Analytic of the Sublime," is also the condition of the possibility of the failure of sensus communis to emerge in any given case.

    Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics 2005

  • It's true that Inerane's music often earns that appellation, at least on musical terms; blues and traditional music figure heavily into its catalog on the Seattle raw-internationalist label Sublime Frequencies.

    News 2012

  • The Seattle-based label Sublime Frequencies has doggedly culled through his enormous catalogue and released three albums of some of his best work to a growing community of Western fans that includes his fellow genre-defying electronica pioneer Björk and

    The New Yorker newyorker.com 2010

  • It was Brad's expressed intention that no one use the name Sublime in any group that did not include him, and Brad even registered the trademark Sublime under his own name.

    Entertainment - Female First 2009

  • It was Brad's expressed intention that no one use the name Sublime in any group that did not include him, and Brad even registered the trademark Sublime under his own name.

    unknown title 2009

  • 50 Min Sublime Back Polish & Swedish Massage??????????

    Get Amazing Deals at Top LA Spas During April’s Spa Week 2007

  • Foreigners entered through a gate called the Sublime Porte, and were thus accredited “Ambassadors to the Sublime Porte.”

    Archive 2006-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Foreigners entered through a gate called the Sublime Porte, and were thus accredited “Ambassadors to the Sublime Porte.”

    Log of the Eclipse (13) Walter Jon Williams 2006

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