sublimities

I should next extend the flame to all tours, meditations, and musings on hills, valleys, and lakes; prohibit all sunset 'sublimities' as an offence against the state; and lay all raptures at the 'distant view of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

How often had we talked large (we were very young!) of our sublimities and potentialities, how often had we pictured tragedies of sur render and greatened in the speaking!

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Just how Walsh achieved such sublimities he never talked about, and I never discovered.

We Shall Not See His Like Again Richard Schickel 2011

If we really understand the complex sublimities and nuances of this relationship, we might together help the world -- and ourselves -- skirt the foundering rocks of the negative outcome, the bad scenario, above.

Michael Vlahos: America and China: Partners or Rivals? Michael Vlahos 2011

Children of the devil they were, insensible to the beauties, the sublimities, and the awful terror of God's works.

WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

Such sublimities as Jan Vermeer's "The Music Lesson: A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman" (circa 1660) and Rembrandt's "The Shipbuilder and His Wife" (1633) have been loaned out as often as a suburbanite's lawn mower.

Buckingham Stops Here! 2008

He would have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity.

Les Miserables 2008

Fortunately Lord Decimus was one of those sublimities who have no occasion to be talked to, for they can be at any time sufficiently occupied with the contemplation of their own greatness.

Little Dorrit 2007

Festus himself, the governor of Judæa, reproaches him with being too learned; and, unable to comprehend the sublimities of his doctrine, he says to him, “Insanis, Paule, multæ te litteræ ad insaniam convertunt.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Elements of Criticism is devoted to making the claim that, fortunately, the perceived beauties and pleasantries of music are entirely incommensurate with the dangerous sublimities of passion13.

Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics 2005