I was more than ever impressed with the marvellous sublimity and transcendant beauty of King's College Chapel.
It is the only form in which they find they can speak of nature which at all ennobles it or which satisfies their own idea of the sublimity of nature.
I am confident they would be abundantly rewarded for their trouble and exposure, and would find subjects for the exercise of genius, the sublimity of which the most vivid imaginations of the old masters never dreamed of.
It is impossible that it should not contribute largely toward the formation of scenery surpassing in sublimity and picturesque character any other in the world.
It is a piece of poetry, lofty in style, grave in movement, pregnant with weighty thought, stern and rugged, steeped in a sublimity of gloom and Stoicism which remind us of the author of La Ginestra.
The force of the poem is spiritualized and concentrated in Clorinda's death, which may be cited as an instance of sublimity in pathos.
The sublimity is in man's acceptance of war, not for hate or gain, but love.
Lane, arm in arm with Blair, face to the front, stood absorbed in his sense of a namelesssublimity for them while passing the Statue of Liberty.
Channing's eloquent preaching with the use of that book of prayer and praise unsurpassed and unsurpassable in its simple sublimity and fervid depth of devotion.
There weresublimity and pageantry and pomp to create awe.
Milton's chief Talent, and indeed his distinguishing Excellence, lies in the Sublimity of his Thoughts.
Mucius, of his own will, left his right hand on the altar: what sublimity of mind!
The language used for this purpose has a terseness, a concentration, a sublimity which betokens the voice of a Sovereign, the fiat of a Legislator.
The former has, on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains.
The first has on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains.
Before the sublimityof this insight, all forms of the pathetic fallacy seem cheap and artificial.
He heard with impatience that Mount Washington was a thousand feet higher, and he had a childlike incredulity about the surpassingsublimity of the Alps.
If the writers wouldn't exaggerate so, talk about 'the sublimity of the mountains challenging the eternal grandeur of the sea'!
He was fisherman and hunter, and had been the comrade of sportsmen and explorers; and his enthusiasm for the beauty and sublimity of the region, and for its untamable wildness, amounted to a passion.
It would be mortified to hear the talk of the excursionists, which is more about the quality of the tables and the beds, and the rapidity with which the "whole thing can be done," than about the beauty and the sublimity of nature.
We shall have to examine the nature of sublimity in our following and last section, among other ideas of relation.
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.
A crag, streaked with black and white, here and there shows its head aloft, or its whole height from base to summit, and suggests that more of such sublimity is bidden than revealed.
It was a very beautiful rapid, and the guide-book considers it equal in sublimity to Niagara.
Sublimity is wanting to make the painting perfect--but its picturesque effect is unrivalled.
Certain it is, that the oriental religions which have encouraged this sublimity of devotion and self-annihilation in the Deity, have not been remarkable for the formation of a sound and vigorous type of moral character.
They give consistency and sublimity to his communion with God, and to his revealings of another world.
Sublimity of conception, grandeur of form, and breadth of manner, are the elements of Michael Angelo's style.
Literature yields nothing more enthralling than those passages in which sublimity is seized, and the mind of man is commanded to rise above the pressing issue and the material care.
The sublimity of the spirit of Shakespeare and the aloofness of the mind of Milton divide their influence, through an infinite universality, from the current of evolving expression.
I earnestly intreat your Sublimity to be assured, that I will do all that depends on me, not only to procure the advantage of Sweden, but also to contribute to her glory.
I cannot sufficiently thank your Sublimity for the care you have taken of my private affairs and my dignity; it is my duty so to act as not to appear unworthy such great and continual favours.
I purpose to dedicate it to our Queen, unless your Sublimity determine otherwise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sublimity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
