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A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBLIME
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sublime
 a.  of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth; characterized by nobility; majestic
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  Incomplete, it may be, but sublime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his sublime dream.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
4  All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  Fantine acquired this sublime talent, and regained a little courage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
6  But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which two teeth were lacking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
7  The peculiarity of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses into spectators.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
8  This would enjoin us from consigning something sublime to History.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
9  There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA
10  All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
11  This crowd may be rendered sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
12  Marius came to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species of lion-lamb who had been his father.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
13  Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14  Admirable and terrible trial from which the feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
15  A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
Example Sentence:
1  The most sublime act is to set another before you.
2  Every day is birthday time when thinking of you,and I shall keep one sublime hoping your many dreams come true.
3  There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
4  From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
5  Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
6  What pushes this matter to the sublime is the reality the world is battling a terror threat which has given license to the authorities to treat ordinary citizens like chattel.
7  He was a midfielder of considerable strengths, a taker of sublime free-kicks, a global brand, a nice guy, a genuine role model, a petulant peacock at times but always a tireless worker for his teams.