All 8 Uses of
sublime
in
War and Peace
- Let us rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below.†
Chpt 1
- At last the Emperor, tired of futile expectation, his actor's instinct suggesting to him that the sublime moment having been too long drawn out was beginning to lose its sublimity, gave a sign with his hand.†
Chpt 11
- At last the Emperor, tired of futile expectation, his actor's instinct suggesting to him that the sublime moment having been too long drawn out was beginning to lose its sublimity, gave a sign with his hand.†
Chpt 11
- "Du sublime (he saw something sublime in himself) au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas," * said he.†
Chpt 14
- "Du sublime (he saw something sublime in himself) au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas," * said he.†
Chpt 14
- And the whole world for fifty years has been repeating: "Sublime!†
Chpt 14
- Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.†
Chpt 14 *
- * "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable