All 3 Uses of
sublime
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He is terrible in His greatness, awful in His sublimity, but infinitely merciful.†
Chpt 7 *
- The talented prosecutor laughed mercilessly just now at my client for loving Schiller—loving the sublime and beautiful!†
Chpt 12
- Their passions are quickly exhausted; but, by the side of a noble and lofty creature that seemingly coarse and rough man seeks a new life, seeks to correct himself, to be better, to become noble and honorable, 'sublime and beautiful,' however much the expression has been ridiculed.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable