• The restaurant itself is a little ramshackle, but the sublime duck makes it a culinary experience to savour.

    BBC: Sampling Beijing��s imperial duck

  • The sublime offers solace and inspiration, but it makes a poor guide to policy.

    ECONOMIST: Disasters are about people and planning, not nature��s pomp

  • Patek Philippe's response was the sublime Nautilus, which begat a simpler model called the Aquanaut.

    WSJ: This Sporting Life

  • Poulenc, for example, loved to tiptoe the line between the sublime and the silly.

    ECONOMIST: The London Proms

  • The presentation is as beautiful as the service is impeccable -- both are worthy of the sublime food.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • This amazing and impassioned fantasia about American loneliness begins as satire and ends with a vision of the sublime.

    NEWYORKER: American Beauty

  • Think of the sublime summer we have had, watching sportsmen and women compete.

    BBC: A Point Of View: And prizes for all

  • The rest of the food at Sweet Cheeks is not too bad either, and in some cases it brushes the sublime.

    FORBES: The World's Best Biscuits! In Boston?

  • The sublime irony of the outrage is that almost NONE of it is coming from people who actually work at Yahoo.

    FORBES: Back To the Stone Age? New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Bans Working From Home

  • It also deliciously mingles, like so much in the Mediterranean world, the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the domestic.

    WSJ: Rome's Piazza Navona: Perfection, Squared | Masterpiece by Willard Spiegelman

  • From the sublime to the unassuming at little trattoria La Bettola.

    BBC: Postcard from Southeast Sicily

  • Aided by strings and light percussion, this is transcendental chamber music that divebombs into the sublime as much as it reaches the heavens.

    NPR: First Listen: James Blackshaw, 'All Is Falling'

  • Only thus can we probe, to borrow a key verb from the aficionados, the ridiculous for the sublime: those terrors, or unlikely consolations, that lurk within.

    NEWYORKER: Out There

  • Mr Scafi tells this story well from the sublime start to the ridiculous end, with spectacular flourishes of art history and confident quotes from Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

    ECONOMIST: Heaven on earth

  • He said the session - held to examine how well Whitehall is prepared for the possibility of a hung parliament - had gone "from the sublime to the ridiculous".

    BBC: Justice Committee

  • He himself is unsure whether to be Jack Lemmon or John Cleese, but the sublime Michelle Williams holds the screen magnetically with her dewy-eyed channelling of the young Shirley MacLaine.

    NEWYORKER: The Baxter

  • Under Guardiola, Barcelona acquired the reputation of being the most attractive team in the world to watch, spearheaded by the sublime goalscoring exploits of three-time world player of the year Lionel Messi.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • After all, this is the tournament which combines the sublime (sledgehammer batting, close finishes) and the ridiculous (Bollywood entertainment, cheerleaders, "strategic time outs" in the middle of the games to facilitate advertising breaks).

    BBC: Why is the Indian Premier League floundering?

  • For Gothic horror and the cult of the sublime brought terror for terror's sake, and they in turn bred the theatre of cruelty and the Modernist creed that art's first duty is to shock.

    ECONOMIST: Why is art so hard?

  • The joke is told tenderly by Paul Reiser, urbanely by Martin Mull, seductively by the sublime Sarah Silverman, gravely and with much loving, superfluous detail by George Carlin, and shrilly, with an emotion bordering on hysteria, by the inspired pixie Gilbert Gottfried.

    NEWYORKER: The Aristocrats

  • More worldly friends will stop off here for dinner in cool Mimasu-ya, reserving tables overlooking the water, or in the sublime French kaiseki restaurant, Misoguigawa, where a girl in kimono sits by your table throughout the meal, making delectable small talk in impeccable English.

    BBC: The walk that made me love Japan

  • So are two Cambodian investments by Raffles's present owners: Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh and Grand Hotel Angkor in Siem Reap, a splendid colonial relic which will have a new life as a luxury hotel for visitors to the sublime temples of Angkor Wat.

    ECONOMIST: Pukkah hotels

  • Once there, a seaside picnic costs no more than the price of a fresh crusty baguette and a hunk of gooey Camembert, but the sublime feeling of the sun on your face and the sound of the waves crashing nearby is what dreams are made of.

    BBC: Nice on a budget

  • Power in the sublime.

    FORBES: NY Fashion Week Day 8: Polished Perfection At Ralph Lauren And Calvin Klein. Plus: Emma Stone And Rooney Mara

  • We want a nudge toward happiness, a little magic to open the pressure valve of everyday life -- the sublime thrill of transcendence to be found in a Mendelssohn symphony or a Turner landscape, in a perfect kiss or perfect morning jog, in time spent with our families and friends.

    CNN: What really makes people happy

  • Entering a strange region, he would grapple with its history, rifling through the Encyclopedia Britannica and Meyers Konversationslexicon to trace the movements of tribes and the collision of cultures, producing in his books whole page-lists of Klephts and Armatoles, Kroumides and Koniarides, Phanariots of the Sublime Porte and boyars of Moldowallachia, until his readers swooned.

    ECONOMIST: Paddy Leigh Fermor

  • The apparently sublime power of the volcano was largely the result of an initially supine reaction.

    ECONOMIST: Disasters are about people and planning, not nature��s pomp

  • Evenings spent in a mountain hut are among the most sublime and intense that life holds.

    NEWYORKER: Bear Meat

  • It was thinner than most versions I had seen, but inside the layers were brilliantly married and the textures sublime.

    BBC: In search of Miami��s Cuban sandwich

  • While the summer is the obvious time to head to the beach, there is something sublime about the crisp sea air on a spring or autumn day when the sands are empty save for the occasional dog walker and jogger.

    BBC: Visiting the Hamptons off season

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