Both Uses of
sublime
in
The House of Mirth
- As he surveyed the white square set in an exotic coquetry of architecture, the studied tropicality of the gardens, the groups loitering in the foreground against mauve mountains which suggested a sublime stage-setting forgotten in a hurried shifting of scenes—as he took in the whole outspread effect of light and leisure, he felt a movement of revulsion from the last few months of his life.†
Chpt 2.1
- The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†
Chpt 2.1 *
Definition:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable