Poulenc, for example, loved to tiptoe the line between the sublime and the silly.
It also deliciously mingles, like so much in the Mediterranean world, the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the domestic.
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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.
Evenings spent in a mountain hut are among the most sublime and intense that life holds.
It is not possible to declare as apostates any group of Muslims who believes in Allah the Mighty and Sublime and His Messenger (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) and the pillars of faith, and respects the pillars of Islam and does not deny any necessary article of religion.
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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.
The sublime offers solace and inspiration, but it makes a poor guide to policy.
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It was thinner than most versions I had seen, but inside the layers were brilliantly married and the textures sublime.
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.
The restaurant's Francophile ambitions exceed its execution, though the staff is sweet and the starlit ambience sublime.
He played confidently in the first two sets, and was sublime in the third.
In go the noodles, and after a few minutes, we are all quiet, save the slurping of noodles and a sublime soup.
Lennon guided Berbatov's cross into the path of Tainio, with a sublime backheel on the volley, and the Spurs midfielder made no mistake from 10 yards.
The production is stunningly smart and the color rendition is sublime.
After all, if the snorkelling around Flores can be sublime -- and it can -- then the diving is best described as a raw, life-affirming adventure.
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).
But Cabrera, who held a share of the lead heading into Sunday, responded with a sublime approach shot to the final green and a playoff was required.
To kick off, the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail has been upgraded into a major highway that runs along the spine of the country and offers some sublime scenery.
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.
But with Johnson, seemingly aloof and arrogant - but always a sublime runner and fierce competitor - the "Superman" moniker was truly deserved.
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The young Wales star fed replacement scrum-half Richie Rees and his sublime pass out of the back of the hand gave Halfpenny the space to race over behind the posts.
When Strauss sensed that he was near the end of his 85 years after all the hype, the tussles with Nazis and the destruction of WWII his music turned introspective, and he composed a sublime song for a send-off.
The rest of the food at Sweet Cheeks is not too bad either, and in some cases it brushes the sublime.
Moody and sublime, the painting is part of a celebrated series Monet painted of the Thames River in the early 20th century.
If one is looking for feminine equality in Islam in the way it is defined by liberals, it will be a waste of time because the Koranic view of woman as the bedrock of humanity is more sublime and dignified.
The glowing peaks and spires of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha are sublime, closely rivalled by the illuminated stupa of Wat Arun (the Temple of Dawn).
And Keane almost brought the hosts level with a sublime piece of skill, controlling Robinson's long punt and holding off two defenders only to see his left-foot shot palmed away.
Aberdeen could not contain McGeady, and his piece of sublime skill and subsequent cross set up McDonald for the fourth.
The man with the golden boots put the magic in the cup with some sublime pieces of trickery that had the home fans on their feet and some bemused Millwall players on their backside.
Macomb wove in the traditions of candles and fire that are meaningful in both Catholicism and Hinduism to create a sublime moment in the Menon's wedding.
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