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sublime
in
Notes from the Underground
(Edited)

Tell me this: why does it happen that at the very, yes, at the very moments when I am most capable of feeling every refinement of all that is "sublime and beautiful," as they used to say at one time, it would, as though of design, happen to me not only to feel but to do such ugly things, such that ….
Chpt 1.2

sublime = wonderful
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was "sublime and beautiful," the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.
Chpt 1.2
Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but, for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful.
Chpt 1.6
That "sublime and beautiful" weighs heavily on my mind at forty But that is at forty; then--oh, then it would have been different!
Chpt 1.6
I should have found for myself a form of activity in keeping with it, to be precise, drinking to the health of everything "sublime and beautiful."
Chpt 1.6
I should have snatched at every opportunity to drop a tear into my glass and then to drain it to all that is "sublime and beautiful."
Chpt 1.6
I should then have turned everything into the sublime and the beautiful; in the nastiest, unquestionable trash, I should have sought out the sublime and the beautiful.
Chpt 1.6

sublime = admirably wonderful
I should have sought out the sublime and the beautiful.
Chpt 1.6
...I love all that is "sublime and beautiful."
Chpt 1.6 *
An author has written AS YOU WILL: at once I drink to the health of "anyone you will" because I love all that is "sublime and beautiful."
Chpt 1.6
…never to lose sight of a useful practical object (such as rent-free quarters at the government expense, pensions, decorations), to keep their eye on that object through all the enthusiasms and volumes of lyrical poems, and at the same time to preserve "the sublime and the beautiful" inviolate within them to the hour of their death...
Chpt 2.1

sublime = wonderful
… and to preserve themselves also, incidentally, like some precious jewel wrapped in cotton wool if only for the benefit of "the sublime and the beautiful."
Chpt 2.1
The letter was so composed that if the officer had had the least understanding of the sublime and the beautiful he would certainly have flung himself on my neck and have offered me his friendship.
Chpt 2.1

sublime = admirably wonderful
But I had a means of escape that reconciled everything--that was to find refuge in "the sublime and the beautiful," in dreams, of course.
Chpt 2.2
It is worth noting that these attacks of the "sublime and the beautiful" visited me even during the period of dissipation and just at the times when I was touching the bottom.
Chpt 2.2

sublime = impressively wonderful
And what loving-kindness, oh Lord, what loving-kindness I felt at times in those dreams of mine! in those "flights into the sublime and the beautiful";
Chpt 2.2

sublime = admirably wonderful
I was a poet and a grand gentleman, I fell in love; I came in for countless millions and immediately devoted them to humanity, and at the same time I confessed before all the people my shameful deeds, which, of course, were not merely shameful, but had in them much that was "sublime and beautiful" something in the Manfred style.
Chpt 2.2

sublime = impressively wonderful

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(1) (sublime as in: she is sublime)
impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable
(2) (sublime as in: sublime ignorance)
pure or extreme
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, in chemistry or physics, sublime is used to indicate that something changes from a solid into a vapor without first melting; or vaporizes and then condenses right back again. That sense of the word is also often seen in the form sublimate.

sublime in Notes from the Underground (Edited)

sublime
in
Notes from the Underground
(Edited)