All 3 Uses
sublime
in
Interview with the Vampire
(Edited)
- It was detachment that made this possible, a sublime loneliness with which Lestat and I moved through the world of mortal men.
Part 1 *sublime = extreme
- I was thinking at that moment, wordlessly and rather deeply, how sublime friendship between Lestat and me might have been; how few impediments to it there would have been, and how much to be shared.
Part 1 *sublime = wonderful
- Only that I had to move toward it with a sublime and doomed instinct.
Part 1sublime = extreme
Definitions:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable
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(sublime as in: sublime ignorance) pure or extreme
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(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.