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sublimate
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  • Sublimation, all of it; nothing but sublimation, according to the body.†   (source)
  • So I lost almost 300 liters to sublimation.†   (source)
  • "You're just sublimating your own frustration with my income."†   (source)
  • "Ah yes, Vogonity—sorry—of the poet's compassionate soul"—Arthur felt he was on the homestretch now—"which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other"—he was reaching a triumphant crescendo—"and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into … into … er …"†   (source)
  • The Victorians were masters of sublimation.†   (source)
  • While fathers played sublimated sexual games with their nubile teenaged daughters, Poothana suckled young Krishna at her poisoned breast.†   (source)
  • "You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction."†   (source)
  • That I could double-distill, perform titration, calcify, sublimate, and precipitate solution.†   (source)
  • But Freud showed that these basic needs can be disguised or 'sublimated,' thereby steering our actions without our being aware of it.†   (source)
  • Sublimation, she thought, the act of going from solid to vapor.†   (source)
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  • She started to sharpshoot at Vic about little things, sublimating the big things because they were hard to define and even harder to articulate.†   (source)
  • Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.†   (source)
  • It has been proven that the devil has sulphuric properties and this is just a little corrosive sublimate.†   (source)
  • These creative minds with their sublimated forms of destruction.†   (source)
  • This woman who was so down to earth and practical in all other aspects of life sublimated her childhood passion and lived it tragically.†   (source)
  • Maybe because he likes to escape, as in sublimate.†   (source)
  • I saw the guests on the platform turn to look behind them, to see the thin brown girl in white choir robe standing high against the organ pipes, herself become before our eyes a pipe of contained, controlled and sublimated anguish, a thin plain face transformed by music.†   (source)
  • What's sublimating?†   (source)
  • In many places, goblins and orcs fought against each other, unable, even with a common foe so readily available, to sublimate their long-standing hatred for the rival tribes.†   (source)
  • The only difference is that it's brought gloriously up to date with a lot of jargon about complexes and repressions and sublimations that the writer brought home from his analyst's.†   (source)
  • Sublimate, mostly.†   (source)
  • It was years before Ralph even knew to ask himself those questions; and then it was only to find that he didn't know their answers — that his own nature eluded his grasp, like a solid sublimating straightaway, from between his fingers, to gas.†   (source)
  • I would have wild morning and afternoon romps in the hay and all of this could only enhance the quality of my literary output, despite the prevailing bleak doctrine concerning sexual "sublimation."†   (source)
  • But I recall his basic premise as being that culture begins as a sort of sublimation of a play instinct, elements of sacred performances and festal contests continuing for a time in the evolving institutions, perhaps always remaining present at some level, although his analysis stopped short of modem times.†   (source)
  • The moistures of May drowned all save the most ardent stars, and gave back to the earth the sublimated light of the prostrate city.†   (source)
  • It was his way of sublimating himself.†   (source)
  • The notion of sublimation kicks in here, for both character and writer.†   (source)
  • I lost 300 liters to sublimation when the Hab blew up.†   (source)
  • Actually, by now it's full of slowly sublimating ice.†   (source)
  • Sublimation that's the word the act of turning into something you never expected to become.†   (source)
  • He's so slight now that it's as if he's sublimating.†   (source)
  • And a lot of the volatiles are being lost to sublimation.†   (source)
  • You try to imagine Eisenstein in the underground of bisexual Berlin, forty-five years ago, with his domed head and somewhat stunted limbs, hair springing from his scalp in clownish tufts, a man with bourgeois scruples and a gift for sublimation, and here he is in the Kit Kat or the Bow Wow, seamy heated cellars unthinkable in Moscow, and he's dishing Hollywood gossip with men in drag.†   (source)
  • The vaporization energy involved in sublimating a comet, and just about any comet that contacted this would completely sublimate, is high.†   (source)
  • The vaporization energy involved in sublimating a comet, and just about any comet that contacted this would completely sublimate, is high.†   (source)
  • Exhausted, I hear Leslie's cataract of words as if through muffled layers of wool, trying without much success to piece it all together—this scrambled confessional with its hodgepodge of terms like Reichian and Jungian, Adlerian, a Disciple of Karen Homey, sublimation, gestalt, fixations, toilet training, and other things I have been aware of but never heard a human being speak of in such tones, which down South are reserved for Thomas Jefferson, Uncle Remus and the blessed Trinity.†   (source)
  • With the "man" he packs in everything spiritual and sublimated or even cultivated to be found in himself, and with the wolf all that is instinctive, savage and chaotic.†   (source)
  • If somebody had doctored them with corrosive sublimate, they would have been Not-Done seeds, and that was that Even the moons, mammies, doves, etc., in the broadcasts were completely described when they were stated to be done ones.†   (source)
  • The organ strains come rich and resonant through the summer night, blended, sonorous, with that quality of abjectness and sublimation, as if the freed voices themselves were assuming the shapes and attitudes of crucifixions, ecstatic, solemn, and profound in gathering volume.†   (source)
  • …to properly feather the nest and plume the bird-she conducted a vigorous campaign on the telephone, roping in subscribers to one of those magazines for matrons called The Homemaker's Companion, the type of journal that features the serialized sublimations of ladies of letters who think in terms of delicate cuplike breasts, slim, tapering waists, rich, creamy thighs, eyes like wood smoke in autumn, fingers that soothe and caress like strains of music, bodies as powerful as Etruscan…†   (source)
  • The stricken catch of the quick breath in her throat was like the audible sublimate of his own terror.†   (source)
  • —Nearer and nearer, until suspense and puzzlement and haste and all seemed blended into one sublimation of passive surrender in which he thought only All right.†   (source)
  • Harry finds in himself a human being, that is to say, a world of thoughts and feelings, of culture and tamed or sublimated nature, and besides this he finds within himself also a wolf, that is to say, a dark world of instinct, of savagery and cruelty, of unsublimated or raw nature.†   (source)
  • Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation.†   (source)
  • It was marriage sublimated; these two children were two lilies.†   (source)
  • Tess's unassisted power of dreaming, however, being enough for her sublimation at present, she declined except the merest sip, and then Marian took a pull from the spirits.†   (source)
  • There were his fine sensibilities, his fine feelings, his fine longings—a sort of sublimated, idealised selfishness.†   (source)
  • And possessing a highly poetic and emotional though so far repressed or sublimated sex nature, he was one who, out of many in this northern region, had been touched and stirred by the crime of which Clyde was presumed to be guilty.†   (source)
  • Still, the remark was sufficient to withdraw Jude's attention from the imaginative world he had lately inhabited, in which an abstract figure, more or less himself, was steeping his mind in a sublimation of the arts and sciences, and making his calling and election sure to a seat in the paradise of the learned.†   (source)
  • Describe her verse, as the critics have described it, as sublimated and spiritual, and you have described her body.†   (source)
  • She had dreamed of an aged and dignified face, the sublimation of all the d'Urberville lineaments, furrowed with incarnate memories representing in hieroglyphic the centuries of her family's and England's history.†   (source)
  • The love of man and woman, I had always held, was a sublimated something related to spirit, a spiritual bond that linked and drew their souls together.†   (source)
  • The terrible sea, the frail boat, the storms, the suffering, the strangeness and isolation of the situation,—all that should have frightened a robust woman,—seemed to make no impression upon her who had known life only in its most sheltered and consummately artificial aspects, and who was herself all fire and dew and mist, sublimated spirit, all that was soft and tender and clinging in woman.†   (source)
  • There were, as respects this belief, certainly a few sceptics, but then they enjoyed their doubts in private, with that species of sublimated and solitary gratification that a miser finds in gazing at his growing, but useless, hoards.†   (source)
  • There was not a sound of life save that acme and sublimation of all dismal sounds, the bark of a fox, its three hollow notes being rendered at intervals of a minute with the precision of a funeral bell.†   (source)
  • Doctor Strong looked almost as rusty, to my thinking, as the tall iron rails and gates outside the house; and almost as stiff and heavy as the great stone urns that flanked them, and were set up, on the top of the red-brick wall, at regular distances all round the court, like sublimated skittles, for Time to play at.†   (source)
  • That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrid dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began.†   (source)
  • There fermented in that sublimated brain plans so vast, projects so tumultuous, that there remained no room for any capricious or material love—that sentiment which is fed by leisure and grows with corruption.†   (source)
  • In preaching, Mr. Grant endeavored to steer a middle course between the mystical doctrines of those sublimated creeds which daily involve their professors in the most absurd contradictions, and those fluent roles of moral government which would reduce the Saviour to a level with the teacher of a school of ethics.†   (source)
  • Democratic writers are perpetually coining words of this kind, in which they sublimate into further abstraction the abstract terms of the language.†   (source)
  • It is an unfortunate fact that any particular whim of parents, which might have been dispersed by half an hour's conversation during their lives, becomes sublimated by their deaths into a fiat the most absolute, with such results to conscientious children as those parents, had they lived, would have been the first to decry.†   (source)
  • Harry finds in himself a human being, that is to say, a world of thoughts and feelings, of culture and tamed or sublimated nature, and besides this he finds within himself also a wolf, that is to say, a dark world of instinct, of savagery and cruelty, of unsublimated or raw nature.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsublimated means not and reverses the meaning of sublimated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • …you dontbelieve i am serious and he i think youare too serious to give me any cause for alarm you wouldnt have felt driven to the expedient of tellingme you had committed incest otherwise and i i wasnt lying i wasnt lying and he you wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into ahorror and then exorcise it with truth and i it was to isolate her out of the loud world so that it wouldhave to flee us ofnecessity and then the sound of it would be as though ithad never been and he…†   (source)
  • STEPHEN: (Panting) His noncorrosive sublimate!†   (source)
  • Of the charm, of the power of the poem such a translation can give but an inadequate suggestion; the musical bond was of its essence, and the loss of the musical bond is the loss of the beauty to which form and substance mutually contributed, and in which they were both alike harmonized and sublimated.†   (source)
  • We had no disputes and wrangling about the nature and equality of the holy, blessed, and undivided Trinity, no niceties in doctrine, or schemes of church government; no sour or morale dissenters to impose more sublimated notions upon us; no pedant sophisters to confound us with unintelligible mysteries: but, instead of all this, we enjoyed the most certain guide to Heaven; that is, the word of God: besides which, we had the comfortable views of his Spirit leading us to the truth, and…†   (source)
  • Philosophers are composed of flesh and blood as well as other human creatures; and however sublimated and refined the theory of these may be, a little practical frailty is as incident to them as to other mortals.†   (source)
  • To which Sancho returned, "Oh, princess and universal lady of El Toboso, is not your magnanimous heart softened by seeing the pillar and prop of knight-errantry on his knees before your sublimated presence?"†   (source)
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