| 单词 | sublime |
| 例句 | “The emotions of terror & wonder so often concomitant with sublime.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sublime moment for Paul Ellis’ boy, the uneducated son of an uneducated linthead standing before several hundred of his peers, recognized as a leader in the battle to restore the beloved South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Something else emerges in Mozart, though, beyond the sublime melodies, that Haydn’s music does not anticipate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z J. S. Bach was probably the cleverest composer who ever lived, but he gave his performers almost no detailed instructions as to how they might play his sublime music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The dinner is sublime: We start with oyster bisque and follow with prime rib, boiled potatoes, and asparagus in cream. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He realized that it makes people feel good and powerful to feel a part of God, a part of the sublime. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just that it was all so new and so sublime. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, a motif known as the cosmic dance of Shiva. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope we’re all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The Tropics had the newest capital city on Earth, and it was called simply that: “Capital City,” in the sublime confidence of youth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Ah,” Mary Anne mocked, “the voice of sublime perfection. Was that the godly one? The sainted brother? The perfect son?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, that afternoon, that moment, when that first molecule pierced her skin, was the beginning of our connection, one that led me into a darkness that was as twisted as it was sublime. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the crossfertilization of cultures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This, you must understand, Octavian, is the true and sublime end of discipline: that you may rise into a new and glorious buoyancy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That rocky, misty summit, secreted in the clouds, was far more thrillingly awful and sublime than the crater of a volcano spouting fire. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles had sublime feelings listening to Handels Messiah. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned, until all the wires withered and the circuits cracked. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don’t expect me to describe it, that’s impossible, so I’ll only say it was sublime! Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We in Europe are only dwarfs and no nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime, great, and imposing style, as the ancient Egyptians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran away to indulge the inclination, leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to Harriet’s share. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z His attitude to me was the same as that to the attendant; in his sublime self-feeling the difference between myself and attendant seemed to him as nothing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “And now,” said Julian, when everything was quiet, “I hope we are all ready to leave the phenomenal world and enter into the sublime?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Something feels different: I hear none of the usual post-performance chatter, nothing about botched notes or particularly sublime passages. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Fully understanding the racial implications of Parsifal’s message and its pre-eminence in Nazi ideology, it is uncomfortable for us to hear Wagner’s sublime music without wincing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And because this is after all Tom Ford we’re talking about, the packaging is as sublime as the product. | Tom Ford's Luxe Lips 2010-05-14T17:42:00Z By contrast, Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, choreographed in 1948 and revived last week by the Royal Ballet, steers an uncertain path between the sublime and the ridiculous. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Cinderella 2010-04-21T16:49:00Z What these actors can do just with their faces — and what the directors and the editors can do with how and where they use them — is sublime. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z From now on, any definition of incandescence must include the sublime chemical reaction that occurs when Rachel Bay Jones and Brandon Victor Dixon collide onstage. Review | ‘Next to Normal’ is back. It’s still a glorious, heartbreaking experience. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The origins of the aphorism are both elevated and abject, as fits a literary form of sublime ambition that is at present in a kind of disgrace. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z This unnecessary exposition kills the shiver of the sublime in a story otherwise marked by honed descriptions, winning characters and captivating New Orleanian dialogue. The Fantasy Master N.K. Jemisin Turns to Short Stories 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Bloom’s project is ostensibly to trace the idea of the daemonic sublime, defined as “the god within who generates poetic power,” through the work of 12 canonical American writers. Harold Bloom takes on 12 American greats in ‘The Daemon Knows’ 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z To walk the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, on a clear evening during the white nights of June is one of the world’s more sublime urban experiences. From the Czars to Putin: A History of Russia’s Imperial City 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z On the seventh floor, about two dozen Castle works await — quiet, playful and soot-and-spit sublime. Review: Reanimating an Autistic Artist With ‘Soot and Spit’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Edmund Burke believed that terror was the central ingredient of the sublime, an aesthetic notion prompted by extremes. Volcanic art 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z And for audiences at New York City Center, where an exquisite Encores! revival directed by Chay Yew opened on Wednesday, a sensational performance by Ruthie Ann Miles delivers a feeling close to the sublime. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Initially, the effect was sublime, in addition to being a compelling realization of the ecological concerns the composer detailed in his program note. Review: A Sublime New Direction for Andrew Norman in Los Angeles 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Even the sublime work of Leonardo da Vinci doesn't impress her. Westwood by Stella Gibbons 2011-07-29T21:53:01Z It’s got the uncanny, the sublime, and, in many spots, a combination of both. Review: ‘Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami’ Finds the Model, Singer, Actress, Person 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I take comfort for its breadth of associations—everything from low to high, ridiculous to sublime, selfish to selfless. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s easily the album’s most effortlessly sublime moment. What’s the Buzz for Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito 2013-04-18T09:45:32Z The market’s crowded indoor arcades, packed with sights and shoppers, offered few places to relax or access the sublime waterfront views. Seattle’s expanded Pike Place Market has room for everyone 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The Britten work was most persuasive in its calmer passages, like the sublime, increasingly muted barcarole of the fifth and final movement, quoting his own “Death in Venice.” Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-27T16:31:02Z The adjective that shows up again and again for the C-major Quintet is "sublime." Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z They may not all have literally stopped the show—often the fault of a malfunctioning set piece—but they offered, in one way or another, frissons of the sublime. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Enjoying the sublime views it commanded, I lost my footing in the snow and sprained my ankle. This land is your land: why landscapes are the most emotional artworks 2013-01-03T13:10:24Z “They were as sublime as the Rothko Chapel,” Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said, referring to the Houston landmark. Inside Art : Los Angeles Museum Buys Andreas Gursky Works 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z In a sublime pair of black ink screens from the late 16th century, Japanese gentlemen take their leisure in the Chinese fashion, practicing painting and calligraphy, playing music and go. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z A spellbinding concert presented in February at the 92nd Street Y by the World Music Institute illuminated the Carnatic genre at its most sublime. A Raga Renaissance Flowers in Brooklyn 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In the final scene, some of the most sublime music ever written, Wotan places Brünnhilde in a sleeping state and leaves her atop a mountain surrounded with fire. Opera Review: A ?Walk?re? Still Obsessed With Its Big, Expensive Toy 2011-04-23T18:40:58Z Maybe his personal lodestars will reveal hidden traces of the sublime. Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z As my friend’s words about the sublime subtleties of the discoveries made during her experience played through my mind, Beno raised a eucalyptus branch like a pointer toward a massive stone outcropping 20 yards ahead. Rapa Nui Is Remote. And Then There’s Its Isolated North Coast 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “La La Land” succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z I read everything I could get my hands on about Martin Luther King but I knew I wanted to avoid making him a conventional, almost sublime heroic figure. Oscars: Selma writer tells his side 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z That first dip was sublime, my version of “taking the waters.” Personal Journeys: Two Tales of Recovery in the Canary Islands 2013-07-19T16:38:43Z Months passed before he saw the sublime image he’d captured that day. A 50-year-old mystery: Who’s that wading in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The European fascination for mountains, born from Romantic notions of the sublime and a growing scientific understanding of how they were formed, segued predictably into mass tourism. Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z And cellist Yo-Yo Ma gives his friend Seiji Ozawa a sublime performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Andante Cantabile” — that rarest of sights on network TV. Kennedy Center Honors show on CBS: Duty-bound, but still needing a jolt 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Foolishness, and the deflating sensation that a culture that once encouraged sublime beauty now only permits dopey jokes, is Mr. Cattelan’s stock in trade. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z These images constitute a kind of toxic sublime. Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z If it’s a particular sort of bottle, it will age over decades, evolve and ascend to that pedestal on which we have placed such complex, sublime wines. What Makes a Wine Great? It’s Not Just Old and Complex. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z With Martínez-Antón's closing piano notes barely audible, this was a fine end to a daring, mostly sublime, journey. In-your-face Tchaikovsky from American Contemporary Ballet 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Their sublime, balm-like melodies – despite being played with sticks, like percussion – form a core ingredient of the mesmerising sound. Portico Quartet/Penguin Cafe ? review 2011-02-09T19:30:01Z More than “To the Wonder” or “Knight of Cups” or even the sublime “Tree of Life,” it tells a story with a beginning, a middle and end, and a moral. ‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Refusing Hitler, Embracing Beauty 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The line "I still have last night in my body" is sublime. Six Songs of Me: Mikala Taylor of Backstage Rider 2012-08-22T09:35:43Z But for Manolo Blahnik, maker of some of the most sublime women’s footwear of the past four decades, she drops the lenses and lets her eyes, and feelings, show. Review: Watch Manolo Blahnik Make Famous Friends — and Shoes 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Mingling comedy and horror while leaning into the seedy sublime of Florida, this scenario sounds like a story by Karen Russell, the author of “Swamplandia!” and “Vampires in the Lemon Grove.” A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z It is in the nature of science fiction to aspire to more, to ascend fearlessly toward the sublime. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Visionary director Leos Carax's ambitious, audacious "Annette" opens with an infectious musical number, "So May We Start," that recalls a sublime moment from his superb film, "Holy Motors." Adam Driver is impressive, but can't save Amazon's audacious & sexy rock opera "Annette" 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Every once in a while, though, certain special ingredients — fundamentals, context and personality — were blended to create a sublime treat. Comedy’s Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z His plaintive refrain “Have you seen Oliver?” to various people, as the day dies and he’s left crouching in the shadows, and all to the sublime music. 'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a landing,” Ms. Hasegawa said of the exhibition’s finale, to “look at something sublime.” Japanese Art, on Its Own Terms 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z He remained, in critical estimation, a pianist of sublime musical intelligence whether playing with one hand or two. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z A crisis of faith ensues for Salieri, who doesn’t understand how the mind responsible for such sublime music could be so grossly scatological. But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Wise in its knowledge of art, readable in its storytelling, “Elegy Landscapes” documents Constable and Turner on their quest to capture the intimate sublime. Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z For all the fabric that went into her pleated dresses, there was a sublime economy to the form, a point reinforced by the bare-bones style of the exhibition. | Critic?s Notebook: Critic?s Notebook: The Endless Runway - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-07T20:07:07Z The site has been so frequently photographed, and those images so often reproduced and now Instagrammed, that standing in its presence feels more like meeting a celebrity than an encounter with the sublime. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Each evening, we built a fire, an impossibility this summer in Colorado because of wildfire danger, and we watched sublime sunsets. A latecomer to the #vanlife party takes a 4,000-mile road trip in a pop-up camper 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z There is also something moving and emotional about Mary Katrantzou ’s absolute commitment to color, pattern, embellishment and the concept of turning the mundane — a telephone, a typewriter or a pencil — into the sublime. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z The cocktails at Butter & Scotch, “Brooklyn’s first dessert and craft cocktail bar,” tended too sweet for me, but a chilled glass of cava with a slice of sublime birthday cake was thoroughly enjoyable. The Best Drinks of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Because it was always the impurity of Petty’s music that made it feel so sublime. Perspective | Tom Petty’s Americana felt stranger than the rest 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Because clearly there are many people who love those recordings, and hopefully, it will lead them to the more sublime and more lasting interpretations. Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z The sublime is represented by some of the loveliest choreography Ashton ever brought to the stage; the ridiculous by the campery of the Ugly Sisters. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Cinderella 2010-04-21T16:49:00Z But from the beginning, the mood was less spooky than sublime. Going Mausoleum Hopping in Brooklyn 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Dave Malloy’s “Octet,” the sublime a cappella chamber opera that opened on Sunday at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is a portrait in song of perhaps the greatest David and Goliath struggle of our time. Review: The Human Voice Versus the Internet in ‘Octet’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Colter’s designs and use of stone in harmony with the natural surroundings are sublime — none more so than one of our last stops, the Desert View Watchtower, a 23-mile drive east from Grand Canyon Village. Four seasons, four stunning national parks 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z And the most sublime of truffles, in my opinion, don't crack when you bite into them. These easy chocolate truffles might be better than the ones I made in Zurich 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z O'Neill's sublime viola solo was a heart-tugging reminder that Debussy was not just about rule-breaking but also believed in sheer beauty. Debussy's sole string piece makes for singular moment at festival 2011-07-14T19:40:07Z For Edmund Burke, writing in the 18th century, the sublime was a terror “productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.” Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In “Arrival,” this moment is not quotidian: it’s breathtaking, sublime. Watching “Arrival” After the Election 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Such transformative historic moments as Mary Magdalene’s recognition that the tomb of Jesus is empty, and her subsequent encounter with his resurrected form, are neither physically direct nor emotionally sublime. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Best of all is laing, a tangle of taro leaves, flown in from Hawaii and carefully pruned of their stems, saturated with coconut milk and braised into a soupy, sublime mess. Another Foothold for Philippine Cuisine 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z For many of us, David Lean’s epic film of that name — one of the greatest movies of all time, visually sublime yet heart-shatteringly intimate — is all we know of Lawrence. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z It is a sublime love song, that is sung from the heart. My favourite Beatles song: Something 2013-04-10T10:07:51Z There’s a sublime sensitivity and subtle shading to quieter works like Barber’s “Nocturne” and Amy Beach’s “By the Still Waters.” 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Given Mr. Church’s frictive relationship with the genre, there was a sublime irony to his releasing this album just before last week’s Country Music Association Awards. On ‘Mr. Misunderstood,’ Eric Church Pays Homage to His Influences 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The ballet's famous final pose — which, in Randall G. Chiarelli's elegant design, looked like it was creating its own light — seems to stop time, as Apollo and his muses achieve a sublime moment of perfection. Dance review: PNB's 'Apollo & Carmina' 2012-04-16T20:05:08Z But by profoundly complicating our idea of Degas — demonstrating the massive role fiction, fantasy and high feeling played in the sensibility of this supposedly dispassionate “realist” — the curators lifted the experience into something sublime. Perspective | Best visual art of 2020: Sublime Degas, spellbinding El Greco, Dorothea Lange and a defining video for our time 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z One of them was Pauline Malefane, 33, a sublime soprano who is now his wife and a musical director of the company. Athol Fugard?s Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid?s Ghost 2010-03-13T00:01:00Z Our piper, Decker Forrest, is a sublime musician but his playing was too much for the acoustics of a small bar occupied by regular punters, staff and a large film crew. My night with Gérard Depardieu: pipes, poems and a skinful ... of haggis 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Mozart's next-to-last stage work, a mixture of fairy tale and Masonic morality play, is a miraculous creation whose music has a sublime simplicity. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z This is demonstrated by “The Dawn of Egyptian Art,” a sublime, view-shifting exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art dominated foremost by small, startlingly personable sculptures and vessels from around 3900 to 2649 B.C. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, "Black Messiah" is as vital as it is sublime. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z However, the Romantic philosophers, poets and artists understood the sublime subversion of looking up. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z That fullness of experience gives his cartoons a sublime conviction. Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z There are very few examples because it is such a tricky voice to get right, particularly in a novel, unless you are Jeffrey Eugenides in the sublime “The Virgin Suicides.” This Week in Fiction: Petina Gappah on the Insular World of Boarding School 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z While Sundance’s Rectify uses a slow pace and smart family drama to transcend into the sublime, Queen Sugar is not quite there. Queen Sugar: Oprah’s latest drama is a sweet success 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Playing the just-about-fictional deputy prime minister is Thom Tuck, a Best Newcomer nominee on last year's fringe for his sublime solo show. This week's new live comedy 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z In The New York Times, the critic Charles Isherwood deemed it “haunting,” extolling performances “of that sublime but unshowy order generally only achieved by true theatrical collectives.” A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But it was certainly a laboratory for philosophical and scientific inquiry, a place for artists to test out new concepts such as the picturesque and the sublime and new disciplines such as meteorology. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Robustly flavored on its own, it’s sublime with seared foie gras mingling with the bacon-shallot jam. Loulay: all-around razzle-dazzle from the Chef in the Hat 2014-04-17T20:26:15Z You may drive or trek into mountains, for instance, expecting magnificent views, vast scale, sublime vistas. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z When was the last time you heard a performance of Thomson’s fresh, beguiling and wildly unconventional “Symphony on a Hymn Tune” or Piston’s elegant Viola Concerto, with its sublime slow movement? Copland, Thomson and Others in a Fantasy Music Festival 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z It was a sublime display of El Alfa’s ability to stretch the boundaries of speech and language. El Alfa, the King of Dembow, Dazzles at Madison Square Garden 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z A druid priestess who avidly practices human sacrifice sings music of sublime beauty. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z If the first two movements of the Beethoven Ninth performance had laid-back moments, Mr. Welser-Möst drew sublime, effortless and radiant playing from the orchestra for the great Adagio. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z Sometimes it really is that subtle, a few grains dividing the satisfactory from the sublime. The Single Most Important Ingredient 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z There was a certain finality to her last appearance of the season, that sublime moment in the mikvah. ‘Transparent’ Season 3: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet he painted some of the most sublime works ever created, and it is that contrast that made the celebrated 19th century British artist J.M.W. Mike Leigh explains what was 'terrifying' about filming 'Mr. Turner' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z When the music here is at its most sublime, your holiday wish might well be for “Holiday Guys” to shed some of its pedestrian small talk and become a straight-ahead cabaret show. Theater Review: ‘The Holiday Guys: Happy Merry Hanu-Mas!’ 2012-12-24T23:03:06Z The last time I had listened to the podcast, which “features in-depth, otherworldly produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime,” the episode was about balloon fetishes. “Guys really like the idea of me ruining them”: A “humiliatrix” on shaming men for their sexual pleasure — and for a living 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Meaning so vast, so sublime — a gentle giant in chains? The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z “Both ‘Veep’ and ‘Enough Said’ are sublime opportunities, period,” she said. The Carpetbagger: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in a Panic 2013-12-12T20:46:49Z The album is an idea, an abstraction, a sublime idealization of Coltrane’s religious philosophy. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Is it worth the splurge to go to a heli-skiing lodge, or can I access equally sublime slopes for a fraction of the cost with a cat-ski trip? Four ways to ski British Columbia’s legendary powder highway 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z His Band of Joy includes monster guitarist Buddy Miller and sublime vocalist Patty Griffin. Top rock shows 2011-04-07T15:10:04Z Watching flamenco performed outdoors has be one of the most sublime experiences in dance. Under Madrid Skies, the Stars of Flamenco 2010-08-08T10:09:00Z The Net Somewhere between ludicrous and ludicrously sublime, "The Net" features Sandra Bullock as the first-ever movie character to have her identity hacked on the Internet. Pervs and thieves on the Internet: A Hollywood history 2011-03-29T22:30:00Z “There were a few moments when it was sublime,” said Sarah Watson, an executive coach, “but not all the time.” Enter the 50-Ton Concert Hall That Hangs Like a Disco Ball 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “The most recalcitrant temperaments,” he wrote, “would shudder at the sight of its surging crescendo, like the roar of an immense and sublime conflagration!” Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Being downright godless is no impediment to feeling, for example, that the title track is something sublime. Mavis Staples: One True Vine – review 2013-06-22T23:05:07Z For all the sublime technique, the biggest revelation is hearing these two giants lock into perfect symmetry on the main theme. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z To read it simply as one but not the other, as either sublime or compromised, is to make a point of ignoring the full range of ways in which architecture operates. Comprehensive 'Gehry' retrospective in Paris draws sociological blank 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Just as she had picked peaches and walnuts on the family farm, she picked up art objects all around the world — from the sublime to the whimsical. A Collection of Many ‘Things’ Comes on the Auction Market 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The music seethes sadly at this, but the dissonance passes through a sublime moment of consonance — courting sunshine — before drifting back into tension, then transpiring upward into pure shimmer, almost toneless. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z It may be that the Nobel was never worthy of this iconoclastic satirist, wily cultural historian, sublime fictive ranter, comic tragedian, outraged citizen, contradictory wit, epic insulter and monumental imaginer. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z It makes a luscious breakfast and a loose, chocolate fondue-ish dessert — and it's sublime. Salon Food's top 10 recipes of 2021: From impossibly crisp chicken parmesan to chocolate sandwiches 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z In the Kyrie, for example, sublime choral writing is given a burbling, carefree keyboard accompaniment. Music Review | Voices of Ascension: Back to the Roots for Rossini?s ?Petite Messe Solennelle? 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z Gritty, lucid Friedkin thrillers like “The French Connection” owe a serious debt to Costa-Gavras’s sublime “Z,” which pulses and seethes just as memorably now as it did 45 years ago. Movie Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It is hard to say with absolute certainty which of the hundreds of paintings at Velveteria, Los Angeles' velvet painting museum, are the most strangely sublime. L.A.'s Velveteria museum shows there's more to plush paintings than Elvis and clowns 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Mostly, what unites them is how each wrenches great feeling from stories about everyday life; here, lives abruptly change and even shatter in a single moment, a piercing absence, a sublime kiss. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In Matthew Warchus’s hit revival of Noël Coward’s “Present Laughter,” which ended its sold-out run at the Old Vic Theater last weekend, Garry is portrayed, with sublime rue, by Andrew Scott. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z What survives from his old manner is a heroic rhetoric of wide intervals, as if the American sublime has been sublimated and purged of anything local. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Certainly, like so much of “Biped,” it seems to address the sublime. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z It was sublime television: The entire Shakespearean rivalry of the Gallaghers, condensed into a single performance. Liam Gallagher Gets His ‘MTV Unplugged’ Moment 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The grandiose vistas he photographed in Yosemite are not only sublime evidence of God's grandeur or America's glory, like the same scenes when looked at through the cameras of Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Committing every sin of "good" composition on the way to achieving its sublime ends, the beautiful painting is the perfect setup for an exquisite, lacquered acrylic disk by Robert Irwin. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The music, however, is sublime, with a kaleidoscopic reveal just before the seven-minute mark. LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z The sublime and the slightly ridiculous somehow merge in Tillman's ongoing tightrope walk into an arresting vision that is as singular as any in contemporary art. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review 2013-07-06T23:07:32Z Sansho is the first to serve anything like Mr. Day’s pork belly and watermelon salad, a sublime mix of sweet, juicy fruit and rich, savory flavors. Bites : Restaurant Report: Sansho, in Prague 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z The two overlaid images — sublime landscape in Yellowstone, Grand Teton or Big Bend and textured, stony earth at his feet — are woven together in large-scale color images that are unlike anything I know in art. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The movie’s spare, sharp dialogue offers some sublime and original theological reflections and revisitations of Old and New Testament themes that are more than asides—they’re the characters’ own guideposts for action. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z A sentimental attachment to the "mystery" of Shakespeare goes hand in hand with the idea that he and his works are a sublime mirror to our contemporary predicament. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z Balanchine did more than any other choreographer to make women sublime, and this was achieved without simplifying them. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Thomas is sublime as this fragrant but poisonous powder puff, whose flailing helplessness allows her to manipulate Carla into making all the funeral arrangements, even though her own marriage is in crisis. | 'Relatively Speaking': ?Relatively Speaking? at Brooks Atkinson Theater ? Review 2011-10-21T02:01:14Z It's movement and music fused in Ratmansky's own version of the Romantic sublime. Royal Ballet Mixed Programme – review 2013-02-24T17:45:01Z Cringe-factors and the Simple Minds drum-plod of The City aside, the instantly singable Sex and You, with its simple, sublime guitar motif, do enough to suggest they'll be heard everywhere this year. The 1975 – review 2013-01-29T15:10:22Z They’re not concerned with the sublime; they’re orderly members of society calmly and efficiently executing the most famous routine in the corps repertory with calm efficiency. Review: American Ballet Theater Revives ‘La Bayadère’ Using Familiar Choreography 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It is just this which renders them tragic and sublime. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Would karaoke night ever have been infused with an aura of the sublime? Perspective | Aretha Franklin’s voice was the sound of an America we’re still trying to become 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z He is, like Roald Dahl, a supreme example of the sublime malign. Week in theatre 2010-12-12T00:05:00Z The opera proper is the occasion for their collision and, by the end, sublime cohesion. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z A sublime salted fennel shortbread cookie escorts chocolate-malt pudding topped with ground cocoa nibs. Another Ethan Stowell winner, mkt., is simple yet sumptuous 2014-01-16T21:35:45Z I’ve heard that cheese grits with a bit of salsa can be sublime. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z Its mysterious radiance verges on the sublime, a sensation heightened by elegant lighting design from Ji-Youn Chang. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z The song just preceding it, her sublime kiss-off “Irreplaceable,” fits the chronology but is outsourced entirely to a willing audience, as if it no longer felt true enough to sing herself. Music: New Concert DVDs From Beyonc? and Adele 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z In the 18th century, philosophers described the combination of excitement and terror as sublime. An alien beauty to Helen Rae's female subjects at the Good Luck Gallery 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It doesn’t have to be injected, smoked, or snorted for us to experience its sublime and soothing effects. Is sugar the world’s most popular drug? | Gary Taubes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Her halting progress is painful to watch — but when she succeeds, it’s sublime. Harriet Sanderson crafts ‘Uneasy Landscapes’ | Art review 2012-12-04T15:01:05Z I suppose that can be applied to any music, but there’s something about Bach which is so timeless, and so sublime, and so human, that it’s universally touching. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Then Heath Ledger turned in a sublime performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight, leaving the caped crusader relatively vanilla by comparison. Christian Bale: 'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds' 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Competitive athletics are full of biological advantages, both massive and minute: I held multiple swimming records as a kid because of a glitch in my hip that granted me a sublime breaststroke. Perspective | We celebrated Michael Phelps’s genetic differences. Why punish Caster Semenya for hers? 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z When Claude-Joseph Vernet painted a shipwreck in 1772, he captured the sublime not through a precise rendering of a stormy seascape, but rather through the terror of people at the mercy of a tempest. Review | At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z When I asked Pelly how he would stage this small, sublime moment of pathos, he simply breathed in and said: "I don't know." Glyndebourne's odd double 2012-08-09T19:00:12Z A white column dress in viscose crepe had a sublime undulating cutaway at the chest to give it a playful, modernist vibe. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z As for the underground storage area, it offers an industrial sublime: five parallel aisles of stacks, each 50 feet high. Beneath the book bubble at U of C 2011-05-18T22:31:15Z Whether you think it’s a comedy or drama, it’s a sublime bit of acting. Review | Terrific ‘Barry’ shows how HBO’s best dramas are often found in its comedies 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z What sublime irony it is — don’t you think? — to know that each of these cohorts made “Friends” one of the most effective sales platforms on TV, into the streaming industry’s hottest commodity. Why millennials and Gen Z love "Friends" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z As ritual, it doesn’t achieve the transcendence of McDermott’s “Satyagraha,” one of the Met’s finest productions, a staging whose visual diversity and inventiveness give way to sublime austerity. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The last 10 or 15 minutes of This is the End sag until Rogen and Goldberg trot out a few last sublime celebrity cameos. This Is the End: Apocalypse, Like, Wow 2013-06-11T22:44:54Z That he succeeded was demonstrated anew in a sublime account by the conductor Paul Hillier and Theater of Voices, the vocal quartet for which the work was written. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z It also offers precious glimpses of his genius as a maker of sublime and witty pictures. Critic?s Notebook: Full Vision of ?Metropolis? Includes Lang?s Vivid Wit 2010-10-21T21:48:00Z Haitink launched the sublime Adagio finale somewhat faster than he once did, as if he were not about to go gentle into that good night. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z One short hike delivers us to Three Bears, a sublime pitch of trees and mini cliffs where Bill and I stop twice to howl and high-five over our good fortune. A skier’s circuit: The ‘powder highway’ through the Canadian Rockies 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s all very competent and engaging, if somewhat hit-and-miss, until you get to the final story, a novella-length tale called “Jack and the Mad Dog” that unexpectedly explodes into the sublime. Short story collections dive in to this fall The result is a sublime treat that is tender on the inside but toasty on the edges, tart yet sweet. Cream cheese makes these crunchy cranberry cookies irresistible 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z One memory was of reading about a “sublime” Spanish cheese made by a larger-than-life artiste, the aforementioned Ambrosio. Books of The Times: Michael Paterniti’s ‘Telling Room,’ Set in Rural Spain 2013-07-22T20:29:40Z I’d conceived our ascetic desert romp not out of some joyless parental imperiousness, but because in California’s great nothingness I saw a path into the sublime. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Near the end of this meticulous and sublime poem, he writes: “We were the scene. / Now the floor has been swept clean.” This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z This is less a matter of sublime cinematic achievement than of raw communal feeling. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z May is typically still snowy in Yellowstone, but fall in the park is sublime. Bypass Yellowstone, especially in the summer, and head to Glacier National Park 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Absolutely astonishing in Good Will Hunting and then was sublime at playing the total weirdo in One Hour Photo; yoy always sort knew he had that weirdness - totally creepy! What did Robin Williams mean to you? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps even more disappointingly, who among us isn’t affronted by the thought of an ugly adapter clashing with Apple’s sublime design aesthetic? Apple’s enormous insult 2012-09-13T18:02:00Z And the spoof of Hitchcock's The Birds, in which a blonde Front finds herself trapped among an ever-increasing number of flat-capped tradesmen, is sublime. Big Train – box set review 2013-04-25T12:47:36Z As they left, I remember whispering to myself in a state of sublime terror: “I am never going swimming again, I am never going swimming again…” Jaws official trailer. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The trio demonstrates sublime improvising musicianship and flawlessly creative listening at once. Paul Motian/Chris Potter/Jason Moran: Lost in a Dream | CD review 2010-03-18T22:10:00Z While almost everything about it bespeaks its origins in a culture very different from the West, the delicacy and grace of its sublime imagery create an impact that couldn't be stronger. In 'Princess Kaguya,' a wondrous parable about what matters 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z However, if you want a film to look cool and clear, hire a Chinese cinematographer: Wu Di's work here is sublime. Cannes: tales of misery, money markets and Maid Marian 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z Most telling, though, is the slightly rockier treatment of an early favourite, The Funeral, which begins with sublime fragility but becomes so turbocharged it results in a sea of hands punching the air. Band of Horses – review 2012-11-20T17:50:09Z Tempos in the outer movements and the Scherzo were brisk, and Mr. Gilbert’s account of the Funeral March was plangent, if never quite sublime. Music Review: Renderings Energetic and Brash 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z Ms. Yass specializes in the sublime, that experience of terror and beauty that long ago galvanized Romantic imaginations. Art In Review: CATHERINE YASS: ?Lighthouse? 2012-02-16T22:48:41Z Heyward spent years pushing Gershwin to collaborate on an opera; once Gershwin agreed, Heyward mailed him lyrics — the only ones he ever wrote in his life — that are some of the most sublime ever written. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Wong Howe’s images are sublime, his expressive interplay of light and shadow summoning moral conflicts out of thin air. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Frankly, the averageness of all these people – and all people – is the crux of the show's sublime one-two punch of tragedy and giggles. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z And yet the lesser known music was sublime, all languid, smoky, and sultry. A week in radio: Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry? 2012-05-17T20:30:01Z His Arctic is fearsome and sublime, his ice a living thing. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z This sublime recording features Ms. Hannigan, the radiant soprano, and includes other elegant Satie vocal works. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Of the Marian paintings in the show, none is more sublime than the Gardner’s own. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The sex scenes in his books are good, but the surveillance-detection runs are sublime. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Gego’s art is less transformation than salvation, both mechanical and sublime. Review: ‘Gego: Autobiography of a Line’ Highlights a Sculptor’s Kinetic Work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s like going on this tour of the most sublime emotional landscape — from the most tender moments to the most head-banging moments, tragic moments, frightening moments. Rivers Cuomo’s Very Complicated, Highly Organized Life 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Trenchant and aching from its inception in 2005, Mr. Muhly’s piece sounded anthemic here: a sublime example of precisely the kind of collaborative vision the Ecstatic Music Festival was formed to celebrate. Critic?s Notebook: Festival Where Boundary-Defying Musicians Mix and Mingle 2011-01-18T23:29:03Z The movies have shown, I think, that the Los Angeles River, in its current state, is a sublime landscape. 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The German painter is sublime, profound, and authoritative in a way that invites high-flown comparisons and invocations of art history. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z So it is maybe unsurprising that the show’s detour into the realm of the school play, with Maya landing a lead role and Anna working backstage, was not merely knowing but also sublime. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Carter’s idea was to show that the sublime could be revealed in Stevens’s own poetry. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z That’s especially true of the sublime Sheridan Smith, an Olivier recipient last week for her blissful performance as Elle Woods in the London version of the musical “Legally Blonde.” Theater Review: Plays That Grapple With Grief in War and Love 2011-03-22T13:00:07Z Here is black-and-white photography with the brooding power of sublime romantic art. Sebastião Salgado shows us ends of the Earth as Child With a Dove takes flight 2013-04-12T13:12:58Z The core of it, though, is in the tension between the handmade painting and the vision of the cosmic sublime. Art by Milton Avery, Joe Bradley and Chris Martin 2010-03-11T21:54:00Z It’s “Unorthodox’s” most sublime scene, a new kind of cleansing. Review | ‘Unorthodox’ carefully and beautifully depicts a young woman’s flight from tradition 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Picasso expressed the sublime wish “to live like a poor person, but with lots of money.” Kristen Stewart and the Actor’s Dilemma 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Performed by 20 dancers of the Cullberg Ballet, with an original score by Laurie Anderson, it’s one sublime hour of asking without needing to know. Review: This Sublime New Dance Work Embraces Wonder 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Over knotty chords and brisk meter shifts, Clement tosses off head-scratchers like “By parting the leaves you meet the sublime/and there a fake you find,” all with an utterly charming nonchalance. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Newman said he hoped it offered "a glimpse of the sublime". Barnett Newman's 'glimpses of the sublime' are a bargain at any price 2013-05-16T16:17:44Z And though he wrote many books over his lifetime, including a celebrated work of nonfiction, “Son of the Morning Star,” it’s his sublime first novel that I turn to. In Praise of Evan S. Connell 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z To have canceled the concert or significantly altered the program on Friday night — a delicious mix of the sublime and the ridiculous, featuring the Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter — would have achieved nothing. Review: The Mezzo-Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter at the Frick Collection 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z From the sublime to the ridiculous, from Fuji to frogs, there's a bit of everything. Show on woodcut master Hokusai opening in Berlin 2011-08-25T13:04:08Z Mr. Weitz said that the aria struck the tone he strove for in the show — mixing ridiculous and comic elements with sublime moments, through music. Not Even Plácido Domingo Can Say No to ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z This is the stuff of what is known as the romantic sublime and is often associated with weather that engulfs us and obscures topographical objectivity. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2012-11-22T12:00:00Z A walk through sublime vistas Between Chiswick and Little Sparta runs a glorious history of British gardens. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z Their potential hinges on slower, more haunting songs like the sublime, darker-Ronettes style Take Care of My Baby. Dum Dum Girls ? review 2011-04-03T21:30:00Z This is not, as is the most sublime of Twelfth Nights, an evening in which melancholy and rapture blend. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z Your sublime starring role as Dodgy Phil in the little-known but comprehensively brilliant World Of Pub? Talk about Kevin 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Versailles, the third most-visited monument in France after the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, has evolved into a seriously sublime food destination. Five Places to Eat in Versailles 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z His sublime performance enthralled guests, as the human mannequins were slowly undressed, to begin the show. Secret gardens and co-ed styles hit Paris men’s collections 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Forster's "Howards End," where Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is described as "the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man." John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z Plus: Rosa Parks’ home, Samoan tattoos and that sublime point where Donald Trump and the world of architecture criticism intersect. Roundup: A show about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trump vs. the architecture critics, more on the Wildenstein trial 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The maestro and his players seemed to be delving into these sublime, sometimes strange scores for the first time. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z And as second season progresses, its multicourse presentation of visual symbolism grows more sublime. "The Bear" hides crusts of meaning and trauma in an episode about the Feast of the Seven Fishes 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The best news is this: It’s the 25th anniversary of “In the Upper Room,” Twyla Tharp’s singular, sublime tour de force. The Week Ahead: Nov. 6 ? 12 2011-11-04T15:13:30Z With "Become Ocean," the temptation can be great to float mindlessly in a warm bath of sonic beauty for a sublime 40 minutes. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The sensation of sublime emptiness, of a sacred void, explains the enduring romantic appeal of a place like Death Valley, which I wrote about in last week’s issue. The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Resorts around the world, including Dive Palm Palm Springs and Mar del Cabo, offer buyout wedding options from the super simple to the stunningly sublime all depending on your budget and your desires. Want a Completely Private Destination Wedding? Rent a Resort. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Folding a sometimes difficult, often strange, occasionally sublime art form into that universe is a way of burying it. Will Streaming Kill the Art of Cinema or Grant It New Life? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z That’s a cosmically sublime detail; no other poet slices with such accuracy and deadly intent. Louise Glück, a Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But Mr. Gelb preferred something closer to the danger and thrill of the Met’s stage, where you never know whether a singer will overshoot a high note or land it with sublime precision. How the Met Opera Is Throwing a Gala Concert With Smartphones 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z In his book “Le Surréalism au Cinéma,” the French critic Ado Kyrou calls it “sublime.” 1940s Dispatches From the Land of Wynken, Blynken and Noir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The river was deserted and I relived my experience from days earlier, drinking in the sublime scenery that, truth be told, should always have been the reason to visit, and remember, this town. In Laos, a Haven for Tubing Offers More Peace, Less Partying 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The dark awe of the sublime is the stuff of your most memorably destabilizing travel experiences, I’d argue. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z When I did finally taste it, the wine was sublime. From 2018, Indelible Messages From the Past 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Anyone who doubted that watercolour was able to achieve intimations of the sublime so central to the romantic project had only to look at what Girtin – who died at a melancholy 27 – achieved here. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z The audience refused to release her, so she performed as an encore the most sublime version of “Over the Rainbow” I’ve ever heard live. Audra McDonald soars in her stirring tour through the American musical 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Punctuating all this were some sublime solo moments. Frugal Traveler: D.I.Y. Africa 2014-03-28T17:21:42Z Expect reverent tributes that adhere to Mr. Cohen’s sublime meditations, as well as some wildly inventive renditions. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In "Iphigénie," Gluck excels in sublime balance by pairing down Euripides' play to its fundamentals and setting restrained musical parameters against which emotional imbalance can be best recognized. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Griffith's sublime rendition of the most famous tune, the killer bel canto aria "Glitter and Be Gay," truly brings down the house. Review: A soaring, witty 'Candide' at 5th Avenue 2010-05-28T21:42:00Z The film’s sublime rug-pull of an ending – one of the greatest ends in recent times – sees Janne’s situation spilling over into the public sphere, as she rides the subway. My streaming gem: why you should watch All Is Well 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Turner, as his career progressed, seemed to grow impatient with ordinary reality as he intensified his search for the sublime . Review | One rivalry changed the landscape in English art 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Musically, the result is theatrical but modest and soft-edged, not recognizably sublime in any sense. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The film is “an excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in November. DVD: Dana Andrews in Jean Renoir?s ?Swamp Water? on Blu-ray 2012-03-16T17:49:47Z The vocal line is melodic and ranges from pretty to the sublime, evoking occasional frissons even from gray-haired opera goers who have long outgrown fairy tales. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z But the more sublime the landscape or representation, the more he yearns for an idealized “place of absolutes” in which that perfection becomes permanent. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Gursky comments on a more contemporary kind of sublime heroism in photographs that feature Marvel comic heroes. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The music was sublime; the three-hour show was fun and inspiring—even if the finale was, shall we say, unexpected. Woody Guthrie’s Star-Studded 100th Birthday Party 2012-10-15T16:43:47Z With them in the mix, all the other elements seemed to shine that much more and the interplay in each bite between the soft and crunchy bits was sublime. Want to immediately improve your meals in 2022? Reach for some crunchy, toasty and crisp ingredients 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z And the 18-year-old herself: is her sublime innocence the key to the whole thing? My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z The film opens with a young woman's comic-sincere prayer in a gleaming fast-food restaurant, setting up the story's frictions between the manufactured and the sublime. "Cafe Noir" a Seoul-set elegy to lost romance 2010-07-06T23:39:00Z Nothing is freer, nothing is more chaotically sublime, than this 40-year-old mess that is hip-hop dance. ILL-Abilities: the b-boy supercrew taking on the able-bodied 2013-05-02T16:32:51Z Enter: these 12 sublime seaside camping spots, where visitors fall asleep to the sound of the surf and awaken to scenery to rival any five-star hotel. These Are America's Prettiest Beach Campsites 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z OK, maybe not the wigs, but the acting is sublime, with scenes wrought with tension and spy-related shenanigans that recall the good ol’ Cold War days. 5 TV shows worth a binge 2014-04-16T23:36:24Z It’s a model of a late-20th-century museum, with stacked boxes and flexible volumes, which, as you move through them, provide these sublime views outside. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z And the ending is sublime; it sounds like a boxer after a long fight. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Nichols excelled at translating stage productions into sublime films, including Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which earned him the Oscar for best director. Mike Nichols: A Look Back at the Director's Best Films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “Which master managed, as Beethoven did in his late music, to weld together present, past and future, the sublime and the profane?” Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Outer space is the locus, as the sea was for island people writing Anglo-Saxon poems, of the idea of a special sort of loneliness, a confrontation with the sublime. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z His spectacularly violent death in sci-fi/horror landmark Alien still stands as the film’s crowning achievement over 35 years after the fact, a sublime fusion of the gory and the unsettling. Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z I’ve heard some say that the proliferation of puppetry distracts from the sublime nature of Mozart’s music. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z At a two-star restaurant, you expect the food to be absolutely sublime — but if there was a tiny piece of sand in an oyster, you wouldn’t think too much about it. For one night, Washington gets a ‘six-star’ Michelin restaurant 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z What approaches cliche in a lesser-spotted comedy show becomes something rather sublime in other hands. Poet, comedian, or both? 2010-08-27T16:10:00Z It sacrifices some of the sublime and gains in fun. Review: Absences, S-Curves and Wonderful Asymmetries 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z In this know-it-all age of thought-leader messiahs and thumb-taunting Twitter Torquemadas, Russo places his faith in the ideals of art — ambiguity, paradox, heresy, the sublime — over the black-and-white ideologies of our current politics. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Intensely erotic, brimming with tension, sublime on the sentence level and pleasurably painful in its articulation of both yearning and ambivalence, “Cleanness” is more than a beautiful closing, perhaps, to the narrator’s Sofia story. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z It was the sublime saying “good morning” to the sublime. Review: Taylor Mac’s 24-Hour Concert Was One of the Great Experiences of My Life 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Collings is also keen to emphasise the social context of the paintings and link them to the ideas of Turner's time, such as the Napoleonic wars and Burke's concept of the sublime. TV highlights 13/06/2012 2012-06-12T19:30:01Z “The gardens of Islam,” Hobhouse writes, “are among the most sublime in the world — soothing, refreshing and deeply spiritual.” Marking the gardener’s path through history 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The result was sublime cinema and awful history. El Cid: Spanish history enjoys a right royal revamp 2013-04-26T08:38:31Z The marquee attractions are the remarkably intact fourth- to sixth-century paleo-Christian mosaics of archangels, saints, religious officials and ancient buildings that decorate the lofty dome, glittering and sublime. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Meals like this are, of course, impossible to replicate: a sublime vacation moment that can’t be transferred back to everyday life. A Simple Pasta That Puts Ricotta Front and Center 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Marcel Proust, he noted, spent summers at the Grand Hôtel, the vast century-old, Belle Époque structure that still lords over Cabourg’s expansive beach, known for its sublime sunsets at low tide. Visiting France?s C?te Fleurie 2010-08-06T15:19:00Z Set behind the scenes of an excruciatingly dire musical receiving a test-run in 1950s Boston, it is at once silly and sublime. Curtains – review 2012-08-03T17:27:29Z Van Gogh paints skulls and Schubert's sublime last works are clearly suffused with the awareness of death. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z The term sublime, after all, suggests a combination of power and magnificence, touched with terror or dread. ‘Steel’ review: Honoring the industry that once symbolized our strength 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z God Bless America: A sublime slice of anarchy that fires up the brain cells whilst providing mindless hilarity. Open thread: What's the greatest-ever kids movie? 2012-06-29T16:26:03Z “The idea that Mark might represent the U.S. in Venice hit me when I saw those sublime paintings of his.” Mark Bradford brings 'dexterity of De Kooning' and a commitment to activism to 2017 Venice Biennale 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Yet somehow these fall short, maybe because they suggest a blunt forging ahead, when in fact the choreography demands as much softness and restraint, one of its sublime tensions. Review: From Twyla Tharp, the Effort and Possibilities of Dancing 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Wolfe-Suarez is clearly interested in the passage of time, decay and the sublime, as seen in works that involve photocopied flowers and various manipulations of a photograph of a golden sky. Ginger Wolfe-Suarez engages the sense of smell 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The choir reassembled up front for elegant, clear-textured accounts of two sublime Bach motets, accompanied only by continuo cello and chamber organ. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “Pittsburgh is serene and sublime from that vista.” Perspective | David McCullough helped America understand itself 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The writers seem to exhaust themselves in circling the sublime, their words serving chiefly to remind us that we are destroying the world’s oceans before we have begun to understand them. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z In a career that was as ridiculous as it was sublime, Bob Elliott, who died Feb. 2 at 92 in Cundy’s Harbor, Maine, was half of the comedy team Bob and Ray. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Sometimes that aloneness can feel sublime and beautiful in a way. A Vision of Asian-American Cinema That Questions the Very Premise 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z In a treatise published in 1757, Edmund Burke, an Irish essayist and statesman, outlined the differences between the beautiful and the sublime. Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The sublime Chicago soul singer, 71, is riding high with the success of her new disc, "You Are Not Alone" — a terrific gospel and pop set produced by Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy. What our writers love this week 2010-10-20T23:22:00Z Even when he adds arrangements beyond guitar, voice, and percussion — some synthesized strings on “Cristina” and “Reitiración,” for instance — he’s reducing to an ever lighter essence, direct and sublime. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z In short, it was the same sandy, sublime outing it always is. On Cumberland Island, you don’t have to choose between roughing it and pampering yourself 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z "That rebel leader in Benghazi, don't you think his English is a little too ... sublime?" he says, slyly. Seun Kuti: The sun always shines 2011-04-07T20:49:00Z The best animated movies for children are sublime. Review: ‘Captain Underpants,’ Pretty Much What You’d Expect 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The long history of war writing — from Tennyson to Pat Barker to Adichie — tends toward the grandeur and grace we call “the sublime.” Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Meadow, like Vertov, is searching for "film truth," a way of getting to "glimpse the sublime" through the eyes of a machine. In 'Innocents and Others' Dana Spiotta explores the creative tensions between two female filmmakers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The songs, mostly coming from their sublime fourth album, Last, sound simultaneously as old as the hills and unique and new. The Unthanks ? review 2011-03-29T16:58:14Z The 48 preludes and fugues of “The Well-Tempered Clavier” are the ultimate exploration of counterpoint in all its complexities, yet also a dazzling collection of quirky, sublime and sometimes showy character pieces. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z It was a sublime, ridiculous Hollywood moment, canned and simultaneously real. Arts & Leisure Preview: Dennis Hopper, Riding Out the Ups and Downs 2010-04-07T15:37:00Z He was a giddying mixture of tolerance, malice and flippancy who gushed about the sublime and despised utilitarianism. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z Like veteran Boston songwriter Jonathan Richman, DeMarco's got a knack for finding the sublime in little things and is unafraid of sincere positivity. Which of Coachella's smaller acts will go on to make it big? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z “It’s a memoir that’s about so much more than an ailment. Things that are mundane and things that are sublime,” she added. Sarah Ruhl, the Celebrated Playwright, Will Publish a Memoir 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z SkyMall moved to the apex of the commercial value chain — way past food, shelter and decent clothing — to a capitalist Valhalla of the sublime and the ridiculous. Remembering SkyMall, the in-flight catalogue at the apex of commercialism 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z They’re the objects and the justification of Romantic chivalry at its most precariously sublime. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Thankfully, on Sunday, The Criterion Channel will launch an eight-film series of the screwball master — a body of work that stands as one of the sublime and most absurdly entertaining in all of movies. New this week: ‘Cherry,’ ‘Bloodlands,’ Nick Jonas & Grammys 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z “He had such a wide spectrum of embrace, from the sublime to the ridiculous.” Sally Mann Turns Her Lens to Friendship and Loss 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z To his surprise, I loved its sublime taste and gelatinous texture. Pursuits: In Japan, Searching for Prized Sea Urchins 2013-07-16T21:19:48Z Like sublime meals and glorious journeys, great wines create great memories. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z From the moment last night’s sublime episode opened with Frank Reynolds sitting behind the news desk at a local Philadelphia TV station, one thing became obvious: this cannot end well for anyone except Frank. The Always Sunny Depravity Rankings: “Gun Fever Too: Still Hot” 2013-09-12T16:25:41Z Equally sublime is the corner location, two blocks from the White House. Review | Mirabelle, on the fast track to sublime 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In that moment, the Wagnerian in Volle poked through, turning the humanity of Falstaff’s humbling into something sublime. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Every corner of the cosmos is ransacked to provide a sublime context for his anguished mortals. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z Then Isabelle Demers, dressed in a trim black suit, took the organ bench and coaxed the sublime from the big machine. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z However, the show was really about the jewelry, as sublime ornamentation reigned in some of the collection's more garish looks. Fashion shows travel continents and eras in Paris 2012-09-27T20:44:15Z As the evening winds its way on, the band are locked on and increasingly sublime – drummer Jason Trammell galumphing along, auxiliary keyboard player Ahmed Gallab looking sharp in a white suit, everyone contributing vocals. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Ms. Hartley made specific requests for works by Mark Grotjahn and Willem de Kooning, and for a series of sublime photographs of the French National Library interior. At U.S. Embassy in Paris, the Art of Welcome 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “The Nature of Arp,” his first major survey in the U.S. in more than three decades, is elegant, lively, often sublime. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Yet his experience of the sublime “conveyed for him a ‘sense of endless untold stories’ — that same impression of potentially limitless exploration which is vital to the success of his legendarium.” Review | Lose yourself in the places that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Part of the fun of watching “Mrs. Maisel” is to applaud its singularly sublime message, which is simply: I won’t shut up. Review | ‘Mrs. Maisel’ is back, making the world safe again for obnoxious personalities 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But this sublime achievement doesn’t occur in a vacuum. And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z And in the work’s most intensely and ravishingly beautiful movement, the Agnus Dei, the only word that suffices to describe the effect of Anthony Dean Griffey’s inspired singing is “sublime.” A sublime, profound ‘War Requiem’ at SSO | Classical review 2013-06-14T18:03:36Z Otten imagines the Last Poets as modern Romantics whose personal histories, performance styles and Afro-diasporic musical roots provide access to a sublime black aesthetic. Rap’s Radical First Act 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The two characters trade homilies about how driving is a ticket to a sublime kind of independence but keeps us cocooned, separate from one another. Opera-on-wheels 'Hopscotch' drives home the complicated pull of downtown L.A. 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z He wants to consider the “big psychic hole” that surfing fills in him, the appeal of a kind of danger that approaches the sublime. Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Gazing out those windows to green hillsides, red cliffs, blue sky, I felt the shimmer of the sublime. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s a phenomenon, and if it won for season five, it could certainly win again for season six, especially after its sublime season finale. Who will win Emmys on Sunday? Our critics discuss – part two 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And it’s a sublime, fitting twist that Atwood is blackmailed the same way Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer is in Season 1 of “24”: with his daughter kidnapped by an omnipresent organization. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z As I pushed them away, I felt the sublime warmth of his fragile skin seeping into my body. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A sumptuous picture emerges of Angel's relationship with her partner, and she shows the way love permits the ordinary to snuggle up to the sublime. Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z These first 90 seconds of “National Gallery” perfectly sum up Mr. Wiseman’s art of revelation, showing, among other things, how the sublime and the banal are inextricably connected. Frederick Wiseman Turns to National Gallery in London for His Latest Documentary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The fight scenes are by turns kinetic and balletic, and thoroughly sublime. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z On Tuesday it didn’t hurt that City Ballet’s artists performed throughout with aplomb, nor that their material ran from witty to sublime. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Performs Balanchine at Koch Theater 2012-02-01T22:25:02Z It's technically challenging, but of course the music is sublime and perfect. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z There’s also something operatic and sublime about it: It’s impossible to see all of it at once, and it is more felt than viewed. How white tables set with black vases serve as a reminder of the struggle for civil rights 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Today, four years on, the singer is living in London and talking about Boys Outside, his sublime new album of hymnal electronic soul. Steve Mason: Out of the blackness 2010-04-06T21:00:00Z Not that every Nicolas Cage movie is gonzo; his sole Oscar win was for a sublime portrayal of an ugly alcoholic in the drama “Leaving Las Vegas.” Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z In the Renaissance and in the modern age, in the Bellini and the Breuer, sometimes asceticism is the path to the sublime. The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The performer, who bends genres as much as he bends gender, in performances that are a little bit torch song and a lot avant-garde, delivers vocals that offer sublime beauty and pain. Datebook: LACMA's new gifts, a show about performance, a special screening of 'Nosferatu' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z With back to back debuts of two Thursday night comedies — "Welcome to Sweden" and "Working the Engels" — NBC offers up a near-perfect definition of the term "from the sublime to the ridiculous." Hail 'Welcome to Sweden,' despair for 'Working the Engels' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z On Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love: “Governed by laws as strict as the old Hollywood production code, it’s rhapsodically sublimated and ultimately sublime.” In Praise of Film Critic J. Hoberman 2012-01-05T16:32:38Z I longed for the angelic, for an illusion of flight, for moments of the sublime. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn; The Taming of the Shrew; How Like an Angel – review 2012-07-07T23:05:44Z At the same time, she commits an act of symbolic patricide, with a Plath-y edge of “Daddy, I’m through” in its tone, and a velvet note of the sublime in its feedback loop. How beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Rock Idol 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z As the world burns, streaming entertainment has supplied us with distraction and proffered the illusion of sublime control. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Compressing the important events of Tolstoy’s thousand pages into an impressively swift two hours and change, Mr. Wright turns a sweeping epic into a frantic and sublime opera. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z Triumph: the sublime beauty of golden sands backed by jagged red cliffs. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z Drone shots are overused in movies, often predictably so; this sublime film, though, abounds in great, distinctive ones. ‘The Cordillera of Dreams’ Review: From the Heights to the Depths 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Underwood’s most sublime belting, though, doesn’t come until the penultimate set of songs, when she absolutely blows the roof off “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “O Holy Night.” Mariah! Dolly! Carrie! 2020 Can’t Quarantine This Cheer 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Under the midday sun the landscape can seem bleached and monotonous, but when the golden dusk catches the sunflowers, the setting is as sublime as Provence. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z Bless whoever dosed the lemonade at this party: “Renaissance” is Queen Bey at her loosest, funniest, sweatiest and — as she testifies on the sublime “Church Girl” — her most transcendently free. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet it was more than just a gimmick, the correspondence between the two Johnsons proved to be instructive: both created sublime musical expressions of melancholy. York early music festival – review 2013-07-10T18:45:00Z It’s an extra step, but worth it: It moves a wonderful soup into the sublime. A Menu to Savor the Final Moments of Summer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z "But there are things that are quite conceptual and sublime." Haywards gallery's invisible show: 'the best exhibition you'll never see' 2012-05-18T16:16:52Z “Astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror,” wrote Edmund Burke in his treatise on the sublime. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z That said, there’s at least one very good reason to tune in to “Black Narcissus”: It includes what is reportedly the last television role of the sublime Diana Rigg, who died in September. ‘Black Narcissus’ Review: Nuns, Mountains, High Passion 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Both are debut recordings of these pieces, as is the CD's sublime "Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan." A tough choice for Seattle world-music fans: Simon Shaheen or Gamelan Pacifica 2010-12-02T21:17:00Z During the long seafaring voyages of the 15th and 16th centuries, a period known as the Age of Discovery, sailors reported experiencing visions of sublime foods and verdant fields. Diet can influence mood, behavior and more — a neuroscientist explains 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z There was his sublime solo debut, “Black on Both Sides,” released the following year and establishing him as a bona fide star. Yasiin Bey was one of rap’s brightest stars. His farewell concert was a stirring reminder. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z A sublime improviser and deep questioner, Ms. Monson brings together colleagues from an array of disciplines, places and generations for an experiment that unfolds differently each night. Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z "These nine new songs are simply sublime and innovative with a unique spirit. We're absolutely thrilled and honored to celebrate this milestone with him." Listen: Leonard Cohen sings 'Almost Like the Blues,' from new album 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z And underneath all the pain, there are moments of sublime tenderness. "Sissy" author Jacob Tobia says we all have "a coming-of-gender story" 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The dialogue is well-written, the scenes are gorgeously rendered, and the songs, especially “Belle” and “Be Our Guest”, are sublime. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z But Dare "gets" the principles of funk and implements them with sublime abandon. The best No 1 record: Gorillaz – Dare 2012-05-31T20:07:00Z In a din of so much stupidity and chaos, it was a reminder that television’s most sublime power often rests in the act of two people taking a minute to slow down and open up. Perspective | 2019’s best TV moment? It was Stephen Colbert answering Anderson Cooper’s question about grief. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z His nerve-endings are a little shot from his initial beating, but he is cushioned more by a sublime lack of irony. Film review: Kick-Ass 2010-03-31T15:34:00Z Apparently, as Dad explains it, his sexual life with his wife was so intense, he needed commonplace couplings with other women as a way to compare with the sublime raptures of his marriage bed. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Eccentric and enigmatic, she was lauded as a sublime soloist and a future star only to recede into obscurity, or as she called it, “unplanned oblivion.” Celebrating Carmelita Maracci, Who ‘Took the Girdle Off Ballet’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Last in the sublime series, and therefore the last time Richard Hawley croons that lovely song over the credits – at least for now. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z At the New York Public Library on Sunday night the musician Ben Frost issued a sublime rejoinder to the institution’s usual hush. Dance Review: Lee Serle?s ?P.O.V.? at New York Public Library - Review 2011-11-14T23:27:13Z Scent of a Museum Chandler Burr, the curator of an exhibit featuring perfumes from the 1800s to this year, says some are sublime masterpieces. Special Section: Museums 2011-03-07T21:28:17Z The music that I thought could stand up to anything, that I’d consult to restore a sense of sturdiness or revisit a scene of sublime beauty — it all suddenly seemed in peril, unguarded. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In a more conventional review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin called Wolf Hall "a hard act to follow", but pronounced the follow-up "equally sublime". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-05-18T21:45:08Z More recently, a succession of sublime artists have blazed a trail around the world, their easily accessible, blues-based sounds making the word Mali even more synonymous with magical music. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z A lot of people find his large paintings consoling, or seek the Romantic sublime in the depths of his reds and violets. Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z To me, pie crust is a sublime food in itself, and there’s never enough of it. An Apple Pie That Lasts for Days 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z This season it's the turn of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, whose songs include the sublime Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered from Pal Joey, as well as famous numbers such as My Funny Valentine. This week's new theatre 2011-01-08T00:06:25Z Following is a curated snapshot of online reactions to new and noteworthy shows, events, and people — from the sublime to the interminable — culled from our theater coverage on Facebook, Twitter and nytimes.com/theater. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Readers Respond to 'Small Fire,' 'Dracula' and Streisand 2011-01-09T22:26:50Z Then he rapped sublime, poetic brags over it, about how, "When the plush crush through / you just ain't ready." Album of the year: "Black Up" by Seattle's Shabazz Palaces 2011-06-24T15:54:07Z We can talk all we like about beauty, the sublime or the meaning of art, but for the majority of people the pricetag is what matters. Did Peter Doig paint this landscape on LSD? 2013-05-17T15:10:37Z So was the music of “Ave Maria,” a sublime result of human creation, which we heard one clear dawn in the mountain air. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z A meal at the sort of restaurants that end up on Top 50 lists can be sublime. What Makes a Wine Great? It’s Not Just Old and Complex. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The French museum has been cleaning another of its sublime Leonardo paintings, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, and the London drawing also dramatises the relationship between Mary and her mother Anne. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z Visual Aside Accompanies Sounds of an Ensemble The third movement of Mozart’s “Gran Partita,” his Serenade No. 10 for winds in B flat, is one of the most quietly, simply sublime passages in music. Music Review: ‘Gran Partita,’ by St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble 2012-09-23T21:16:05Z The concertos are sublime, all perfectly balanced and wonderful. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z Before his monotone on “Truth,” he was the third in a sublime overlap of five written melodies, representing, he said, that “Diversity . . . is not something to be tolerated, it’s something to be celebrated.” Review | Kamasi Washington’s playing is a mighty howl at Lincoln Theatre 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z His concert was a tribute to Nature, both sublime and pitiless. Music Review: Two Bands Ascending to Falsetto: A-ha and Jonsi 2010-05-09T22:35:00Z The sublime is the perspective outside of us, which I feel is more and more lost in our time, because we’re more interconnected and less outside, and there’s no God anymore. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z And Cho didn’t simply get through the concerto; he played it from memory, with moments of sublime delicacy. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z As you progress further along the corridor, the cavalcade of city plans becomes repetitive, narcotic and sublime. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z The new year would begin under the gateway of this wobbly sublime. Day 28: How I Lost My Head on New Year’s Eve 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z A rare moment of female freedom and fearlessness in the immensity of the American sublime. I've never seen ... American Honey | Suzanne Moore 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z "Snow Scene, Township" is a sublime impressionist rendering of that rare occurrence, snowfall in Johannesburg. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z He was an artist of such ability, and an author of such talent and vision – his writing wasn’t showy, it never drew attention to itself, he was just a sublime storyteller. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Vivien Schweitzer Fans of Handel’s sublime operatic music — with its achingly beautiful arias and anguished outbursts — are in for a treat on Sunday at Carnegie Hall. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z This was a classic statement of a philosophical category of great interest at the time — the sublime — which was related to but distinct from beauty. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The music — with its hushed long chords, shiftingly gentle harmonies and prolonged expressive tension — is one of the compositions in which we are most aware of his addressing the sublime. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z Argument and inquiry are the engines of Tim Blake Nelson’s “Socrates,” which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater, starring a sublime Michael Stuhlbarg in the title role. Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Before the pandemic, the temple was as famous for its congestion as for its sublime architecture and its spectacular view of the city below. Kyoto Wants You Back, but It Has Some Polite Suggestions 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z This sublime section is written in the third person, from Vidal’s vantage point — an act of near-ventriloquism that captures the writer’s astringent humor and haughty graciousness. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z A week later, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, the Met opened its doors for the first time in 18 months and presented a sublime account of Verdi’s Requiem. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z He teaches the Christian world the lesson of Islamic compassion, and Mozart’s genius reveals this not through Selim’s barely developed character but the sublime musical response of the others. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Then he jumped into the sublime, silvery water. Refuge and Renewal on Lake George 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z I'm sure the skiing is sublime, but its reputation will have to stand in here. Frugal Traveler Blog: Rocky Mountain Low: Cut-Rate Colorado 2012-12-04T22:20:06Z In this much more manipulative and even conventional book, the shock value of the main characters’ secrets wipes out too much of the sublime subtlety and originality that distinguish Ms. Groff at her best. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Stripped-down by Beyoncé’s standards, this was a tour de force of female empowerment, romantic contentment, sublime defiance and bravura kinesis — and of course vocal heroism of the highest order. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z Auden — and his answer was both somber and sublime. ‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z "There is plenty of room for disaster, equally there is plenty of room for the sublime," says Bogue. Spirit of the underground: dance 2011-01-30T21:30:00Z Byrne had done art installations before — most notably “Playing the Building,” a “sound sculpture” that New York magazine called “a marriage of the industrial and the sublime.” David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z He made small, R-rated tweaks to his sublime hit “Let Me Love You.” 2010-01-12T22:13:00Z And there were, throughout, moments of sublime physical delicacy and subtlety. Dance Review: Circa, an Australian Troupe, at Jacob’s Pillow 2012-06-22T22:43:12Z The highlight of an extraordinary evening is the sublime, partly chanted The World Is All There Is. Fool's Gold 2010-05-04T21:45:00Z For me, though, episode six in the first season, called Security and penned and directed by Mamet himself, provides the show's standout moment, a sublime mini-masterclass in character and plotting. Your next box set: The Unit 2012-07-05T14:30:01Z Uchida never leaves you in any doubt that this is a late work, with glimpses of the sublime — apt, really, from this most sublime of pianists. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Simple patience at a Cannes screening led to one of their early awards triumphs with 1987's "Babette's Feast," a slow-moving picture with a sublime finish that they acquired when they ran Orion Classics. Sony Pictures Classics bosses shop Cannes quality 2010-05-19T09:01:00Z “The sentences in these stories stretch past the limits of the ordinary to the luridly extraordinary, and some moments feel as if they are breaking through to the sublime,” Justin Torres writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Some trimming here and there might nudge a few ideas from the realm of the strange to the sublime. A new, young chef brings the drama at Mirabelle 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Offsetting Mr. Muhly’s works — and, in a way, explaining their roots — were a few richly harmonized Howells hymns, and selections from Byrd’s sublime “Great Service.” Music Review: Trinity Choir in Nico Muhly Works at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-07-02T20:54:29Z But that weakness matches his compelling and ultra-bleak outlook on life – for Stanhope, recreational substances are one of the few saving graces of existence – which he somehow turns into sublime comedy. This week's new comedy 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Held in Hoxton Square, an area surrounded by social housing and derelict warehouses, the fete featured sublime stalls and sideshows. East End art scene 'transforms' 2012-11-04T01:27:22Z By depicting the Third Reich as a sublime setting for the 1936 Olympics, “Olympia” also functioned as Nazi propaganda. ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Painted in 1840 to coincide with a major antislavery conference in London, Turner’s ultimate seascape imbued the sublime with the ferocity of colonialism and imperialism. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The nearly 20-minute first movement was treated as grand theater, the contrasts between all that sublime lyricism and some aggressive thunder were made bold. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z There are few Mozart interpreters as sublime as the pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who endows nearly every note she plays with exquisite, crystalline import. The Week in Arts: Dorrance Dance, Janet Jackson, Tintoretto 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Cry!,” from the 1950s, to excerpts from the video for his acclaimed cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” from 2003, the music on offer is sublime. Review: ‘Johnny Cash: An American Rebel,’ Even if You Already Know the Story 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Another family welcomed the sublime simplicity of sun, sea and sand in Puerto Rico, where the island’s charms are within easy reach. Four Ways to Get Outside 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It is the story of two people—a black everyman, played with sublime reserve by Kaluuya, and an attorney who is both sincere and cynical in equal measure, compellingly brought to life by Turner-Smith. The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim” 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The stark but sublime What Happens Now? finds a lonely Adams missing friends who never call, but this charming and even moving set shouldn't see him too short of admirers. Singing Adams: Moves – review 2012-11-29T22:15:01Z His chief concern is the language of the sublime, the embrace of awe, how to transcend the quotidian crush of our lives. Review | Denis Johnson is gone, but he left us one last sublime collection of stories 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the spirited, sublime music of the Baroque period, which lasted about 1600 to 1750. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Baroque Music (Published 2020) 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z They veer from the ridiculous to the sublime, the utterly banal to the infinitely touching. Life and Times: Episodes 1-5 – review 2013-05-27T16:39:07Z The scene recalls the sublime moment in Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea when strangers crouched in the Aldwych underground station during an air raid become a community by singing “Molly Malone.” The Book Thief: The Girl Who Fought the Nazis With Words 2013-11-07T20:59:34Z The romantics called this sort of place sublime. Scotland has been voted the world’s most beautiful country – here’s why 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Often, the most challenging ideas can be made sublime by great skill. The great Grayson Perry frock competition 2013-07-08T04:59:02Z Ms. Abbagnato, like every other earth-smeared dancer on stage, performed with a sublime subjugation to the dance and its frightening, primordial emotions. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z Her imagination, perhaps forgivably, is tripped up by the sublime. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z There, they wrote poetry together and reflected on the terror, awe and, finally, sublime relief they had felt in the past months. Another 360 at the Skate Park, This One Full of Joy 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z As she played it, she was also playing the story of her career, from the flashy hustle to the sublime payoff. The Brilliance of Charo 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z He looks through pedestrian inconsequence to the everyday sublime. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday life chosen by William Sieghart – review 2012-06-09T23:05:36Z When all the pieces fall into place, “Don Giovanni” unfurls with a sublime, graceful beauty that a casual listener might find straightforward, even light. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Of all the sublime Rodgers and Hart songs, why does this one lodge so deeply in the popular soul? The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Wednesday brings Strauss’ little-performed opera “Daphne,” known for its sublime finale as the heroine is transformed into a tree. Classical & Opera Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z If the movie gets a bit gooey at times that’s probably an occupational hazard when considering the sublime. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The concert ended as it opened, with one of Mr. Wuorinen’s sublime quartet versions of early music. Music Review: Experimental Sounds, Soothed by the Waves 2011-06-05T22:18:42Z The gigantic main stage speakers did Butler's bass and drums sublime justice, booming and cracking with tectonic force. Sasquatch! 2010 day one notables: Shabazz Palaces, Nurses, Vampire Weekend 2010-05-30T18:46:00Z Langrée and the players — determined, it seemed, to draw in listeners — played whole stretches with mellow sound and soft-spoken grace, especially in the sublime slow movement. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The filling may be chopped by hand, but it’s easier to achieve the sublime texture with either a high-speed blender or full-size food processor, not a mini-processor. This easy coconut-almond chocolate candy is your perfect Easter or Passover treat 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Those seeking an excuse to claim Mozart’s art as divine inspiration need not look beyond these four pure minutes of lyricism that rise above pain and tragedy to the reaches of sublime beauty. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z My own would be a handful of sublime paintings and drawings by Thornton Dial Sr. and by Martín Ramírez, the Mexican rancher who spent half his life confined to midcentury American psychiatric institutions. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Tuesday night, Morlot did, at least, become sunshine, with bits of Mendelssohn's merry "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the composer's cheerful "Italian" Symphony framing Mozart's sublime Clarinet Concerto. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z It was, as a performance of this work must be, an unsettled and unsettling drama with a sublime, otherworldly resolution. Music Review: Alexei Lubimov at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-28T22:12:14Z The particular magic of the superhero genre — in print and on screen — is its blending of the sublime and the silly. | 'Thor': Have Golden Locks, Seeking Hammer 2011-05-05T15:52:08Z A sprawling novel that revolves around a small settlement in the occupied territories, its focus is less satirical than absurdist, offering a middle vision between the ridiculous and the sublime. 'The Hilltop' views everyday absurdism in occupied territories 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The show is suffused with a take-no-prisoners poignancy that spares no one, and that makes it sublime. “Louie” returns, as hapless and sublime as ever 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The history of American folk art is rife with vernacular traditions that began as chores, but, when perfected, became sublime expressions, worthy of spectacle and celebration: rodeo competitions, quilting contests, and so on. The Hypnotizing Chants of Champion Livestock Auctioneers 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z She added:“In my mind, I’ve gone from the ridiculous to the sublime” but said that some might think she’d done the opposite. A Year in the Life: Who Gets a Master’s Degree in the Beatles? 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z As a composer, beyond his works for piano, Liszt was the inventor of the orchestral tone poem and an inspired songwriter, and he produced a body of sublime sacred choral works. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z But to see Nietzsche, it seems helpful to have binocular vision that can accommodate the sublime and the ridiculous. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Taleggio mousse sprinkled with semolina crumble and a spoonful of jam makes a sublime finish. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z With four ingredients: eggs, potato, salt, and most importantly, extra virgin olive oil, it was so simple, yet sublime. Seamus Mullen's love affair with tortilla española: Find beauty in the simplicity of this dish 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Apple Blossom, aided by a one-handed performance from her astonishing pianist Leo Genovese, was sublime; Fall In sounded like a lost soul classic. Esperanza Spalding ? review 2011-07-12T18:20:00Z But though my legs and lungs were no match for those of the pros, it didn’t matter, thanks to the sublime surroundings. Ultrarunners are heading to Crested Butte, Colo., long popular with mountain bikers 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It reminds you of the sublime and enigmatic power of cinematic images without quite supplying the grandeur of mystery. Review: ‘The Assassin’ Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The scene is at once hilarious, disturbing and sublime — and among “Transparent’s” finest. Perspective | In telling a Jewish story, there’s sublime (‘Transparent’) and then there’s trite (‘9JKL’) 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The food, if seldom sublime, is never bad. Japan’s Fukuoka and South Korea’s Busan: Sister cities a hydrofoil ride apart This, in a sense, is what his does too – few contemporary writers are better at extracting the sublime from the base. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z More so than most previous Meltdowns, Hegarty's line-up is an aesthetic autobiography lived out in the flesh, a process that throws up issues of identity, the sublime, and the push-pull of masquerade and honesty. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z “Rusty Brown,” the first of a two-volume series, promises to showcase Ware’s sublime artistic vision, blending his trademark drawings with a lyrical exploration of weighty themes. The 18 books to read this fall - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: The Art Archive/Corbis The years 1650 to 1750 were a period of feverish invention and technical ingenuity in music that reached an apotheosis in Handel's sublime oratorios and Bach's cantatas and Passions. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Instead, this singularly sublime painting remained in the West. ‘The Red Studio,’ Matisse’s Masterpiece, Gets a Life All Its Own 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z With its sly humor and trenchant vision, this genre-bending work finds sublime poetry in the world of mixed martial arts. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The desert factory, not the megacity, offers the best view of the capitalist sublime. Rem Koolhaas Gives Beleaguered City Folk a Trip to the Countryside 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z A FEW years have passed since the summer of that sublime courtship. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z It’s sublime and agonized, and full of the sort of miraculous devotion that I used to hear about in church. Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The action is creative and at times sublime. 12 more female superheroes who could have fixed “Captain America: Civil War”’s woman problem 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The result is a soft and sublime transformation of a good whiskey, while still allowing it to hold center stage. How to make a Rye Old-Fashioned, a classic 3-ingredient drink (plus ice) 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The pair will deliver cuts from Mr. Volpe’s recently released album, the sublime “32 Levels,” on which Lil B is featured. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In many of his pictures – which can be seen at Tate Britain, the Soane Museum and other collections, as well as in Bristol – potent natural forces roar and rage in sublime visions of catastrophe. David Mach, Ed Ruscha and Leonardo da Vinci ? the week in art 2011-07-29T08:00:00Z “Follies” on Broadway So sublime Due to the talent of Steve Sondheim Queues ’round the block So get in line, while we’re here Lord knows it’s great to be back Look who’s here! Arts & Leisure: Elaine Paige Returns to the Stage in ?Follies? 2011-11-20T02:02:17Z Yet these sublime photos, Mr. Paglen said, were like “the eyes of the state on a new territory,” a theme he explores in his Carnegie Museum exhibition. ‘Impossible Objects’ That Reveal a Hidden Power 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z They’re hot for each other, justifiably so, and as the guileless camera hovers near them, you are reminded how sublime it is to see tenderness onscreen. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “I have everything from the sublime to the ridiculous,” she said. Collecting Books That Are Just Covers 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z If it works, it will be as unexpectedly sublime as the stars seen through the sun roof of his dad's car. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z “It’s both incredibly highfalutin and sublime, but also unbelievably elemental,” Mr. Ma said of the cycle. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z When romantic poets speak of the sublime, they are usually thinking of Mont Blanc or the Simplon Pass or other awe-inspiring natural vistas. ‘Steel’ review: Honoring the industry that once symbolized our strength 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Where Graham Linehan's Father Ted excels in sublime silliness, Rev relies on intensely likeable characters and the warmth generated by their very believable relationships. Hallelujah for Rev 2010-09-16T16:12:00Z Though reluctant, Rossini composed the sublime opening movement and went on to write 5 more of the work’s 10 sections. Music Review: Gianandrea Noseda in His Mostly Mozart Debut 2013-08-14T21:01:46Z Equally sublime is Kings Canyon National Park, a lush oasis that the naturalist John Muir deemed “a rival to Yosemite.” Glamping Adds a Touch of Luxe to the National Parks 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z According to conventional wisdom, the ending of a book is supposed to sum up the book’s meaning in one sublime moment of dramatic closure. The Nonsense of an Ending: In Defense of the Middles of Books 2012-01-04T15:58:18Z Wagner's Parsifal overture showcased some fantastically blended woodwind, but the first theme was made sluggish by a slight lag between instruments, and the music never quite hit its sublime stride. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle 2010-09-05T16:05:00Z And then we drove south, into nothingness, because vegan scrambled eggs and browsing fruit are not sublime. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z A listener could, at close range, soak up sublime sounds, made by acclaimed young and veteran players, and commune with like-minded musical connoisseurs. Review | City Winery’s Michael Dorf looks back at his ups and downs in the music business 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Intensity simmers under the work’s surface, but the Riverside forces did not delve too deeply on Thursday in a moderately paced performance more sweet than sublime. Music Review: Riverside Choral Society, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-24T21:59:57Z From the sublime to the cheerfully ridiculous, there was the stuffed duck that served as Groucho Marx's prop on his 1950s game show "You Bet Your Life." Hit 'Antiques Roadshow' keeps on trucking for PBS 2013-07-01T21:56:15Z “I was looking down and I saw Oprah and Steven Spielberg and I just went into a state of sublime happiness. I think I just said ‘thank you’ a lot. Greta Gerwig: 'I'm at peak shock and happiness' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Then Costa gathers her poetic energies in a lovely final gesture, turning the inconsolable into the sublime. Petra Costa retraces her troubled sister's path in 'Elena' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It is from the banks of the Douro that the sublime city of Oporto rises. Discovering the Douro 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z The sublime, by contrast, depicts nature as transfixing and sometimes scary in its power and majesty. In New York’s Catskills, the Hudson River school art trail brings landscape painting to life 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z This sublime duet, Balanchine’s harmonious rebuke to the foolish entanglements of Shakespeare’s lovers, is all about intimacy and trust. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Koons collides the sublime and the ridiculous yet slyly asks a question that is hard to answer: what is beauty? Jeff Koons: art's king of pop reigns on at the Gagosian 2013-05-07T16:24:59Z It’s a very attractive piece, and the third movement in particular, extracted and varied by Tchaikovsky from Liszt’s piano paraphrase of Mozart’s sublime “Ave verum corpus,” is orchestrated with the airy grace of real genius. SSO spotlights Tchaikovsky and his favorite composer | Classical review 2013-05-10T16:56:26Z Who else provides such sublime soundtracks, subtle characterisation and exquisite photography? From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Chin’s sublime watercolor and gouache illustrations, a master class in visual storytelling, follow a group of family and friends on a daylong picnic near the beach. Standout Summertime Picture Books 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The record cleaves to their trademark formula of melding gothic and classical stylings to world-music tropes in an audacious bid to create music of a sublime, sculpted beauty. Dead Can Dance – review 2012-10-28T18:45:01Z Park is one of the sublime comic artists of the last few decades, and no one should make a stop-motion film without him. The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Yo-Ho-OK 2012-04-26T14:15:15Z The street will be filled with performers and visitors in holiday dress — both the wacky and the sublime. Spare Times for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:15:56Z The ridiculous and the sublime exist in perfect harmony in “The Drag Seed,” David Cerda’s homage to the seminal 1956 film “The Bad Seed,” which turned an adorable Patty McCormack into a horror icon. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Then there are Ms. Marx’s wonderful articles in The New Yorker, including the sublime account of her efforts to understand why South Korea is the world capital of plastic surgery. Review: ‘Let’s Be Less Stupid,’ a Distracted Meditation on Absent-Mindedness 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z There is of course nothing “standard” about much of Beethoven’s sublime music, unless the performance is stale. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z And yet, whoever she is pretending to be at the moment, however she is, with sublime calculation and faultless craft, being herself, we can’t help but feel that she is one of us. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy produced sublime gems of film-making, arguably cherished more now than at the time. The greatest films of all time: Comedy 2010-10-18T11:00:00Z Elusiveness here is the subject: We see that the two men are discussing the ineffable, courteously addressing empty air as if seeking the sublime in it. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Like most movies about great art, “The White Crow” only points at the sublime without ever expressing it. ‘The White Crow’ Review: The Young Nureyev, Gotta Dance! Gotta Defect! 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z I can’t say that these outfits succeeded as camp, but they were the ones that made me laugh, whose performative tastelessness offered a sense of sublime surprise. The Met Gala 2019: It May Not Have Been Camp, But It Was Fashion 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z “The sublime is the marriage of horror and beauty,” she said. Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z So either that or Believe by World Tour, which is sublime from start to finish. Blog jam: GoldFlakePaint 2012-06-07T09:45:00Z It's a session of poise, variety and sublime skill, moving from folk themes with Celtic lilts to hook-based funky pieces and evocative ballads. Ibrahim Maalouf: Wind – review 2013-02-28T22:30:01Z Two new shows at the Frye Art Museum address those possibilities, illustrating their theses with some truly sublime artwork. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z Betrayal was le Carré’s sublime theme, to which he returned in all his best books. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Experience two gardens in one at this sublime example of Japanese style. To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The National Park Service manages 417 “units,” and many of the less trodden sites are decidedly bare bones, but offer similar recreation and sublime scenery. Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The second is a sublime translation into movement of excerpts from Vivaldi. Perfect match: Seattle Dance Project, choreographer Ohlberg 2013-03-27T23:21:23Z Catching this on a powder day would be sublime but the groomers had been busy and I did my best to ruin their wide wale work with high-G carves. Canyons Ski Resort, Park City, Utah 2011-12-09T19:25:27Z The conductor Constantinos Carydis brought a strong take to Mozart’s familiar score, sometimes choosing quite fast tempos, other times stretching out the music’s sublime passages. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z By contrast, Joseph Wright's nocturnal visions of the mountain spewing fire are unfettered essays in the imaginative sublime. Explosive art: my top five volcano paintings 2010-04-21T14:02:00Z What it isn’t is exhilarating or exciting; the filmmakers display their keen interest in the material and the characters, and that very interest inhibits the exceptional, the wondrous, the hyperbolic, the gratuitously sublime. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z There was nothing lunar about this sublime vista. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z If he has not quite approached a Christopher Walken level of sublime self-parody, Mr. Cage has at least established himself as the heir to Al Pacino in the crazy mentor pantheon. | 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice': Nicolas Cage Teaches a Dweeb He?s Magic 2010-07-13T21:29:00Z But the views of the harbor are sublime, and there are two subway stations within blocks. 36 Hours : 36 Hours in Brooklyn 2011-02-10T22:23:04Z The Wake invokes death and the dying of the light with some of the most sublime poetry in the English language. James Joyce by Carol Birch 2011-07-29T21:55:03Z The food is sublime, succulent and utterly delicious, as his hosts reluctantly admit, scarfing the meal even as they nudge him to the driveway. José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti The body count at the end of “Hamlet” is tragic, but Shakespeare never reaches for the genocidal sublime, and neither does Dromgoole. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Rigg’s casting in the role, too, was sublime and perhaps fated. “Game” recognize game: Let’s pour out some Arbor Gold for Olenna Tyrell 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z She didn’t overburden her set with songs from her new album, but she also largely avoided the sublime cool of her last album, “Honeymoon.” Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z This marvelous choreographer, dancer, writer and visual artist has been following her own path for decades, sussing out connections between movement, language and line in ways both sublime and silly — and sublimely silly as well. The Week Ahead: Nov. 4 — 10 2012-11-05T18:54:20Z Main courses might feature bass in a cumin-lemon “tagine” sauce or langoustine meat bathed in a creamy concoction of shell broth, butter and truffle slices — a sublime meeting of sea, dairy and forest. 36 Hours in Paris: On the Seine 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The devout minimalist stripped away interior details to create a sublime study in simplicity, with unadorned arches, vaults, and shallow domes that achieve a nuanced interplay of curves and planes. Divine Intervention 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The sublime and the ridiculous can coexist in disconcerting proximity. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z Taking Monteverdi's madrigals as their starting point they presented a series of their own, interspersing sublime 16th-century Italian sensuality with astringent and arresting 21st-century commissions, four of them given their world premieres. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z The flying flowers on the planet Uriel are sublime, the spectacle of Ms. Witherspoon transformed into an airborne cabbage less so. Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z That’s the urge being translated with such sublime grace by those five natty men on the stage, Platonic ideals of stepping high and looking fine. Review: An All-Star Team in the Temptations Musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In the right setting, a mass planting is sublime. Why the Japanese maple is a must-have for any foliage-loving gardener 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Now a Minnesota-born brewer with a punk vibe and passion for English ale hopes to change all that, starting with “sublime pints” in Los Angeles. Warming up to ales: the British beer movement brewing in America 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The merman, for all his realness, offers a touch of the sublime. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The curved nature of the erosion and abundance of greenery give the impression of an imagined landscape, a sublime rendering of the natural world. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z A stunning group of three Turner seascapes, in particular, paints the Romantics as inquisitive students of nature whose awe-triggering sublime vistas were firmly grounded in empiricism. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It was the sublime Heath – the Heath of imagination, conviction and passion – who took Britain into the European Community, but all too often Ziegler allows the mundane Heath to dominate the proceedings. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z “Abraham and Isaac” is sublime, but it made the rest of the concert seem faintly anticlimactic. Music Review: Britten in Juilliard’s Spotlight at Alice Tully Hall 2013-12-04T22:33:18Z The book contains two essays that are as sublime as the very best short stories. In ‘Natural Opium,’ a Tourist Attuned to Every Indignity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I refer to cinema as the "affordable sublime." From "Black Panther" to "RRR," the new "Story of Film" honors innovation, influence of global cinema 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The piece, which recreates one the artist first executed in Munich in 1968, exudes a slightly moist, muffling atmosphere and affords a sight so surreally, deliriously startling as to be simultaneously ridiculous and sublime. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z He became a famous conqueror in an age when artists were interested in energy, power and the sublime – the Romantic qualities that Napoleon and his campaigns epitomised. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z Other Romantics, seeking shock and awe from their landscapes, turned to the sublime. Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z This leads you to the start of a sublime trail that follows the spine all the way to the valley floor. Top 10 mountain bike rides in the Alps 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The spirit of Wile E. Coyote hovers over the action, which splits the difference between preposterous and sublime. ‘F9’ Review: Objects in Rearview Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Getty rebuilt the crumbling villa as a sublime backdrop to his extensive art collection. 11 Hotels to Visit in Your Dreams 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The opening minutes of “Honeyland” are as astonishing — as sublime and strange and full of human and natural beauty — as anything I’ve ever seen in a movie. ‘Honeyland’ Review: The Sting and the Sweetness 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Catwoman is traditionally something of an antihero rather than a full-on villain, a character created by Bob Kane to personify the sublime paradox of male fear and attraction towards the opposite sex. Anne Hathaway's Catwoman walks into a crowded Dark Knight Rises 2011-01-20T14:56:04Z If Ashton's choreography brushes against the superhuman, it's not through grandiose leaps or pirouettes, but his gift for distilling movement into the sublime. Royal Ballet: Ashton Mixed Bill – review 2013-02-13T17:50:49Z Why not admire its sublime perfection and agree to walk away? Review | Worried that ‘Barry’ can’t possibly outdo its perfect first season? Well, don’t be. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Her "Icarus," with the doomed boy's head/hair seeming to dissolve in the air as he falls, is sublime. Artists Holgate and Becker-Black transcend the limits of landscape and portraiture 2012-06-14T20:50:07Z Klassen's illustrations, ranging from "the sublime to the sinister" were a "joy to behold", according to Helen Thompson who chaired the judging panel. The Bunker Diary wins book prize 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Edna’s awakening begins outdoors, an escape from the structures of patriarchy into the unbuilt landscapes of the sensual, sublime and the supernatural. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But the haunting melodies and sublime three-part harmonies will go down wonderfully with a vintage wine – at which point those bottle-stoppers will come in handy. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang: The Wonder Show of the World | CD review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z The 18th-century writer’s formulation about the sublime versus the beautiful had been formative for me, dividing the aesthetic world into the tidily pleasing and the compellingly terrifying — think cheerful daisy versus boundless and stormy sea. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Or is Beethoven showing off his ability to fashion sublime music from rudimentary material? Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z The actual working turned out to be, naturally, ragged at moments, and then basically kind of sublime. He’s Tried to Leave ‘Star Wars’ Before. Will This Be It? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Instead of evoking the sublime, he tells a human, grimly comic story about the trip itself. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z The sentences in these stories stretch past the limits of the ordinary to the luridly extraordinary, and some moments feel as if they are breaking through to the sublime. Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z On the album's Amazon page, long-time Gabriel admirers debate whether the album is "sublime" or "the worst thing ever released on an expensive coaster". Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!' 2010-06-02T20:30:00Z Mr. Nelsons settled down during the sublime slow movement, drawing glowing sound from the Boston’s impressive string section and shaping the wistful melody tenderly. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But his art is not all sublime landscapes, plowed fields and gorgeous village intensity. Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z I've Been Set Upon sounds similarly hushed and eerie, but the sublime I Will Pour It Down – Lynch's paean to riding his bike into the sea – has a strange, compelling, existential beauty. The Pictish Trail: Secret Soundz Vol 2 – review 2013-01-17T22:15:01Z But you chose to focus on either the more sublime or lovelier aspects of the tale. Q. and A.: Chris Potter on ‘The Sirens’ 2013-02-05T17:18:12Z With her tone as poised as it was subtly refined, she explored the many planes on which Bach's structure operates, highlighting its protean variety of texture in a performance that touched the sublime. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z Nothing matches the sublime power of a Derby homestretch roar, but Keeneland’s picturesque beauty offers its own more accessible charms. For top horse racing without Triple Crown crowds, try Keeneland, not Churchill Downs 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z And so a sweeping historical vision became another sublime Chaplin study in isolation and enforced individualism. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z Only Las Vegas can deliver the levels of sublime bad taste available on the first night of the RNC, when Three Dog Night played at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bring back camp! Why “The People v. O.J.” and “The Get Down” point to its possible — and much-needed — rebirth 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Reprising Delpy on Star Wars: recall the beloved listening booth scene in Before Sunrise, 80 sublime seconds of unbroken footage in which love happens before our eyes, precisely because of their eyes. Before Midnight: 'what grown-up romantics have instead of lightsabers' 2013-06-17T05:00:00Z Last year's Portal 2 saw the National write the sublime Exile Vilify for it. OK, computer: could soundtracking games be the future for bands? 2012-05-25T15:31:00Z As Beautiful Football Moments represent sublime achievement within the game more people play and obsess on this planet than any other, they are notable human landmarks. Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z Possibly no one in operatic history has been as sublime and as tacky as the subject of “Pavarotti,” a new documentary by Ron Howard that opens on Friday. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The opera's accomplishment was “as a study in how to transform the silly into the sublime,” wrote Times critic Mark Swed, who included the performance in his list of the year’s best. Steven Stucky dies at 66: Pulitzer winner, longtime composer for the L.A. Phil 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The sublime “Coo Coo Bird,” by the banjo player and singer Clarence Ashley. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z I don't watch TWD for sublime moral tension or profound character development. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The sublime Uberlin sounds a bit like Drive; magisterial opener Discoverer vaguely echoes Disturbance at the Heron House – and so on. REM: Collapse Into Now ? review 2011-03-03T23:40:01Z Yet between these passages is also astonishing beauty, even the sublime: rending melodies fit for lullabies, ethereal humming that hovers delicately, like a visiting spirit. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Later he writes that the true Heath lay somewhere "between the sublime and the mundane". Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z But stick around for her sublime “O Holy Night,” “Silent Night” and a knockout duet with Cynthia Erivo on “Angels We Have Heard on High.” Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z But both nonprofits have review panels that evaluate every proposal before listing it, rather than leave potential contributors to figure out for themselves whether a project is sublime or ridiculous. Kickstarter and Artspire as Models of Arts Financing 2012-03-17T00:32:03Z In the pain, he has said, he finds moments of the “sublime.” Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “The Souvenir Part II”: Even better than part one, Joanna Hogg’s sequel to her deeply autobiographical drama is simply one of the most sublime portraits of an artist as a young filmmaker there is. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Bailey remembers him being "sublime at solving technical problems". Brian Duffy obituary 2010-06-06T16:58:00Z Most of the high points of this show are musical, with Mr. Lippa providing a sublime Act I duet, “Disappear,” for Ms. Parker and Mr. Binstock. Review: In ‘The Man in the Ceiling,’ Jules Feiffer Adapts Himself 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z On the swinging Down in the Woods, there's even an echo, perhaps, of the old Spiritualized, before Jason Pierce forsook the pursuit of the sublime for a mass audience. Richard Hawley – review 2012-10-06T23:05:53Z Which would have been sublime had I been headed to a slope-side condominium to schuss the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for the week. Explorer: Skiing Igloo-to-Igloo Across the Grand Tetons 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z Fans took to Twitter last night, describing the actor’s performance in the tragedy as “sublime.” Benedict Cumberbatch Electrifies London in 'Hamlet' Opening 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The conversational detours the list inspires can be sublime. Review: Mike Birbiglia Is a Very Nervous Dad in ‘The New One’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Poetry for Stevens was, famously, "the supreme Fiction": in fact, it was the most sublime fiction of all. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z They’re sublime in their beauty, like four matching pitchers of cream, visions of fluid, bobbing grace. Review: The New Ben-Hur Is Mildly Exciting At Best 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z One careful sip, then two, then a bold draining — whereupon my wife and I declared this tea to be quite sublime, perfect, entirely unlike anything we’d ever tasted before. If You Use Tea Bags, You’ll Be in Hot Water With This Connoisseur 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Mark Turner is one of them, a saxophonist of sublime clarity who explains Shorter’s influence in terms of altruism and equanimity. Jazz icon Wayne Shorter can play anything. He’s still trying to say everything. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Mellencamp also showcases the maturity necessary to wrestle with the sublime and hideous in his beloved small town America. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z I was completely alone — without benefit of clergy — in the eerie and, at the same time, sublime Wells Cathedral in southwest England in 2016. Why early-morning walks are the best way for travelers to explore new places 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Mozart wrote one of his most sublime melodies for the Quintet’s second movement, Larghetto, performed here with glowing tone by Mr. Shifrin. Music Review: Clarinets and Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-01T20:47:40Z Academic dance, music and visual design unite, sometimes with sublime alchemy. Petipa: Precursor to Modern Ballet or Hierarchical Elitist? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z What sublime and subtle insights arise from the variations! ‘Walk Up’ Review: Good Friends Make Bad Neighbors 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Abuelo’s house white wine, made from verdejo grapes from Spain’s Toro region, is sublime — fruity without being overly sweet — and two glasses of it help me forget anything that might be going on outside. You don’t have to give up restaurants, museums or shopping during Madrid’s Holy Week 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z So the audience that packed the hall both nights expected a typical journey into the sublime with Sir Andras. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Yes, the upfronts, beneath all the red-carpet nonsense and noisy video collages, are sublime performance art, as rich in pathos as they are in dazzle. Critic’s Notebook: TV Networks’ Upfronts Showcase Shows and Desperation 2013-05-17T22:43:10Z Half way up, I emerged in the bell chamber, and was met with a sublime view – at 16.5 tonnes, the cathedral's bells are the heaviest ringing peel in the world. Liverpool TwiTrip ? the verdict 2010-12-07T07:00:00Z The film presents a compact, tactful biography and also a valuable explication of the Keatonesque in its most sublime varieties. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It may be that these experiments have so far failed to produce works capable of eliciting the experiences traditionally associated with sublime art. A designer's take: Moma is wrong to pretend video games are art 2013-03-07T13:30:00Z It is called New Forgetting and it is sublime, if you're into sonic drizzle. New band of the day: Happy Families (No 1,525) 2013-06-04T15:31:08Z Whatever she's doing at this downtown Renton eatery, opened last year at the location of another popular but defunct Asian dining spot with a similar name, the results are sublime. Blossom Vegetarian dishes come with meaty flavor 2012-06-28T20:16:04Z The sublime supporting cast, brought back if only for glimpses here, remind us that the series is a luscious, perhaps unparalleled showcase for this generation's most endearing British actors. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z Here’s hoping they offer those glimpses of the sublime. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z You'll help an important cause, and witness a sublime singer at her best. Corinne Bailey Rae casts a mournful spell at Seattle's Moore Theatre 2010-04-13T17:52:00Z It works because even this relatively conventional approach is rendered sublime by his mental dexterity and love of language. John Cooper Clarke – review 2013-06-12T17:01:27Z Sherpas Lead Way to a Feverish Finish Even Mozart, the composer of some of the most profound, sublime music ever written, churned out a few works that are merely genial. Music Review: Perter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2012-11-13T23:52:09Z They record tragedy of cosmic proportions, but at the same time they capture the sublime power of the fallen king. Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “Museum Hours,” Jem Cohen’s quietly amazing, sneakily sublime new film, is partly a reflection on such aesthetic puzzles. Movie Review: Jem Cohen’s ‘Museum Hours’ Explores Links of Life and Art 2013-06-27T21:18:15Z I was two years old, hoisted on the shoulders of my father, for whom the view to windward was neither openly nor latently sublime. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z At the age of 80, with more than 50 sometimes sublime, sometimes wildly misjudged films to his credit, as well as numerous widely scrutinized relationships in his past, Allen contains multitudes, as most people know. ‘Woody’ review: A new biography of the notoriously private filmmaker 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The line work is sublime and I’ve always especially loved the eyebrows. I’m sick of working for free 2013-02-12T01:00:00Z But I ask rhetorically, because I’m still working it out: How could such a righteous cultural product, full of so many sublime parts, feel so cumulatively limp? Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z Maybe Mahler’s symphonies — music of extremes, from sublime tenderness to bitter anguish, from childlike evocations of country dancing to harrowing trips into darkness — are proving just a tad over the top. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “Mrs. Davis” the series, on the other hand, cartwheels from the sublime to the goofy. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The 1949 version seems absurd because it so recklessly abandons Fitzgerald's sublime blueprint – but sticking to it doesn't seem to work either. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z It was simply sublime, though the rabbit croquette was the best bite of the night. A travel writer's guide to eating your way through Lisbon 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Unusually, the sublime and sacred first half was shared between Renaissance composers and the 20th century’s Durufle, alternating from one to the other with each piece. The King’s Singers rule with vocal artistry 2014-02-16T22:25:25Z Wagner wrote some of the most sublime orchestral music ever composed, and it’s beautifully realized in “Wagner: Orchestral Music,” with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z But she departed from the first generation’s romantic search for the “sublime” to pursue her own path. Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 2011-12-27T15:27:38Z Is there a stadium anywhere in the world with a more sublime setting? Perfect pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium 2010-05-30T20:30:00Z Iron Maiden will headline on Saturday night, performing a sublime set culled primarily from their 80s glory days, and will doubtless be greeted like the unassailable heavy metal heroes they have long been. Download festival: what to look out for this weekend 2013-06-13T09:46:00Z A sharp screenplay, sublime visuals and benevolent outlook make for an exceptional family-friendly movie that manages to keep adults happy without adopting the standard reliance on regular Shrek-style pop culture references. You review: How to Train Your Dragon 2010-04-06T15:38:00Z "Mallet Quartet," performed by So Percussion on vibraphones and five-octave marimbas, is intricate, ebullient, propulsive, sublime. Composer Steve Reich remembers with 'WTC 9/11' 2011-09-07T20:43:04Z Toy Story 3 The first two Toy Stories were sublime, so hopes are high for the third instalment. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z One early scene shows a tourist photographing a sublime view of Rome, and keeling over dead. Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes 2013-05-23T13:56:11Z Consider the croissant: Butter and dough folded with patience into something sublime. What are marrons glacés from "The French Dispatch"? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z There is a sublime poetry to a structure that vast, and Niven revels in it. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z I don't think it diminishes the Ring in any way to say that it is like the most sublime film music ever created. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z “For me, it’s also a sublime thing,” she said. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z In Patrick Ward's "Poster Power" – printed just as Flower Power was waning in 1967 – there is no distinction between the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the tacky. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z When the sublime is vaguely terrifying, it occurred to me, part of the terror is the capriciousness of the universe. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z It possesses a fragile/sublime soulfulness that is completely out of step with the raging punk rock coming out of nearby Spokane at the same time. Light in the Attic 10 year show: Rodriguez, Donnie & Joe 2012-08-08T16:43:15Z It's silly stuff, and, at its best, sublime. Milton Jones – review 2013-02-10T16:55:06Z Lots of American art has been a similar kind of Trojan horse, hiding the sublime inside the casual or the mannered. Music Review: Pivoting From Patter to Poetry 2011-03-03T21:46:39Z One of the most powerful and sublime spirits of “The Ninth Hour” is Red Whelan. Review | Alice McDermott’s new novel begins with suicide and culminates in murder 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The tedium of “Scenario” periodically builds to something more sublime, a testament to Ms. Walsh’s rigor. Review: ‘Scenario’ Embeds Secrets in Its Prose and Pauses 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Lévy says, “But the passage is not about judgment, it is about the sublime.” | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z Musically, for me, they are two of Chopin’s most personal and sublime works. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z And so successful were her efforts, so sublime the result, that now she’s giving lessons to the rest of us. Milan in Bloom 2010-10-07T18:20:00Z As a follow-up to her impossibly brilliant debut novel, “The Bluest Eye,” “Sula” somehow manages to be not only as extraordinary but also as sublime. Rebecca Carroll's Great American Novel: 'Sula' by Toni Morrison 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Craig Brown’s delectable “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret” is not a novel, though its subject seems like a sublime work of fiction, too imperious to be true. Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z I walked into the nearly empty hall to witness the most sublime, surreal performance I have ever seen. ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Annie Hall is the complete screenplay in that sense; it is that sublime intersection between compelling characters, dramatic conflict and great jokes. Woody Allen's Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z When I read her assessment of the scenery surrounding her in northern Greenland — which “could be described as bleak, or alternatively, as sublime” — I blinked, curious as to which she preferred. Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt? 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Yet the terror, she recalled, was not unconnected to a sense of the sublime. Troubled Turf: The Photographs of An-My Le 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z This is a cosmically sublime detail; no other poet slices with such accuracy and deadly intent. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z However flawed its narrative execution may be, however, the cinematography is beyond sublime, capturing the natural radiance of the grasslands and endless blue above. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z December’s music calendar is stuffed like a Christmas stocking with classical concerts that span the sublime and the uproarious. Top picks for Seattle-area holiday classical concerts 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Otherwise here are just a few other shows worth checking into, whether because they’re sublime or simply ridiculous. 13 can't-miss TV shows coming in August: What stands out in a hot and crowded month 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z This time Mr. Jacobsen and company made it to the end and then moved from the sublime to the, well, perhaps not quite ridiculous, but certainly zany. Music Review: In a Rite of Late Summer, Naumburg Concerts Finish 2011-08-23T22:58:52Z Lincoln turned that into the sublime “better angels of our nature,” an appeal to our common humanity. The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Apart from the sublime balance of functionality, flow, and sheer fancifulness, the Swansons recognize that their San Francisco foothold is something much more: a glossy red valentine to an enduring personal history. Thomas Britt Crafts a Vibrant Pied-À-Terre in San Francisco 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In New York, Nachume shifted his focus from figurative work to sublime landscapes, teaching sculpture, painting and drawing for 20 years at the S.V.A. and throwing himself into fatherhood. A Flood, a Boxcutter and a Son’s Pursuit to Keep His Father’s Legacy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z In a sublime study of gradual depravation, Arquette transforms into a deeply unmotivated prison employee who is hardened by her own unhappiness, succumbing to both desire and resentment. Review | Showtime’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’ is a brilliant series for our remorseless times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z And Martin Scorsese has described an obscure sequel, “Frankenstein Created Woman,” as “close to something sublime.” Hammer Makes ?The Woman in Black? With Daniel Radcliffe 2012-01-27T23:30:09Z The company dance this early Balanchine with a beguiling musicality and cohesion, but there's no frisson of danger or the sublime in the poetry of the final section. Boston Ballet: Programme 1 – review 2013-07-04T17:35:00Z While Demme's latest doc might not fully express the sublime arc of Young's career, it's another worthy contribution to the artist's lifelong body of work. Neil Young documentary captures raw energy of live show 2010-03-19T19:14:00Z Ronald Reagan was his name, and, yes, he factors into what promises to be an entertaining season of this sublime series. Review: ‘Fargo’ Returns With a Triple Murder at a Waffle Hut 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, she hit some of her most sublime notes in writing about her husband's death after a long bout with cancer. In Olivia Harrison's elegant "Came the Lightening," poems on her life, and husband George Harrison 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Dujardin calls some of these fictional constructions “memorials,” but it’s hard to tell what they’re commemorating beyond a grotesque banality or shrunken, apologetic sublime. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z For Schweblin, our fascination as a society with horror stories reflects a loss: a waning connection to “sublime” moments in art and life that “disarm everything inside us,” she said. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z It seems ironic to me that such sublime writings prompt such extreme and often irrational behaviour by so many well-educated people. I receive hate mail for questioning the authorship of Shakespeare plays 2013-04-23T07:00:02Z My husband still won’t touch coffee, but he continues to brew a sublime French press and occasionally even delivers me a lightly salted cup in bed. Goodbye, My Fantasy Man 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z How do we reconcile fear with duty, the heavenly with the lowly, the sublime with the grim? The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Some would sooner be far, far away, in the sublime silence of the Himalayas, say. Weekend Miser: Writers, Musicians and More at Walls and Bridges 2012-10-18T21:43:58Z The floating parallels between the two women’s professional and romantic crises are realized with a sure but light touch that rises to a sublime contemplative indeterminacy. Eight Tales of Art and Sex in Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z But otherwise he consistently skirts the sublime, whether in the oceanic washes of Open Up Your Door, Tonight the Streets Are Ours' breezy hula, or hallucinogenic kiting tune Don't Stare At The Sun. Richard Hawley – review 2013-07-15T17:09:24Z The sublime 25th Variation, a slow, achingly lyrical rumination with passages that explore bold realms of chromatic harmony, invites a performer to play with brooding expressivity. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Other people say my writing is brilliant, beautifully crafted and freighted with the most sublime meaning. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z In 1962, the academy nominated sublime wit Dorothy Parker for reading an album of "her own short stories, verse and a book review" for cult jazz label Verve. A Grammy for James Franco? Weird tales from the spoken word category 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The landscape and flora categories also offer sublime and striking work. Review: Fragile beauty on display at Burke Museum nature-photo show 2010-08-11T23:33:00Z Its constituent parts – in many instances adapted from a variety of his own earlier pieces – form a remarkable unity brought together with an often sublime grandeur. Prom 26: The English Concert/Bicket – review 2012-08-03T17:25:24Z And the new footman is very tall, leading to the sublime Dowager Countess line "Are you really that tall?" which, trust me, Maggie Smith sold. 'Downton Abbey': The wedding . . . or not 2013-01-07T21:13:18Z The collision of Ruby Wood's sublime, airy vocals and sub-bass grooves end up like Sade fronting Massive Attack. Submotion Orchestra: Finest Hour ? review 2011-07-28T21:20:01Z Features one of the most gloriously sublime moments of 2014: The stars’ lip-sync dance sequence, set to Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.” The Best Movies That Didn't Get Nominated for Any Oscars This Year 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z And in a video interview for the festival Mr. Adams, with self-effacing sincerity, says that Bruckner’s “achievement is so sublime” that he would “be a fool” ever to compare his music to Bruckner’s. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z Your hosts for the evening will be Dimitri, the chef, and Andrea, who handles everything from serving and suggesting wine pairings to tempting lingering guests with slivers of sublime chocolate cake. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It is a tableau of the frontier sublime. Art in Review: Terry Allen: ‘Ghosts: Works From “Dugout”/ “Ghost Ship Rodez”/ and Others’ 2012-12-20T21:40:01Z Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons from the Champions of Everyday Lifeby Michael Foley Everything became sublime, especially the menu of the caff advertising "egg's, sausage's and tomato's". Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z Informer Edward has his own snowy trek, to the Witch's icy palace, during which he gets thoroughly wet and miserable; the wintry landscape is sublime, but also properly hard-going. Season's Readings: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis 2010-12-10T10:47:00Z Her scenes with Kidman can be deliciously uncomfortable as two of moviedom’s most sublime actors demonstrate the great white ritual dance around feelings. Review | ‘Big Little Lies’ returns with more (and still more) of its exquisite, high-end suffering 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But king salmon packed in a jar of crème fraîche was sublime, variously pickled, smoked and puréed, meant to be spooned over grilled toast. Miller’s Guild: Sexy, pricey, meaty, fiery — it’s all there 2014-03-21T12:56:47Z Evening wear went from the sublime — two gold gowns, one cut with gold appliqué on a nude base, the other a shimmering column of sequins — to the surreal. Special Report: Fashion: Taking Charge at Kenzo 2011-03-07T19:23:37Z Widely studied and taught, Beard’s masterpiece swerves from the banal to the sublime with profound humility and unvarnished detail: Review | Jo Ann Beard, best known for her New Yorker essay about a shooting, returns with a beautiful new collection 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z For them, the sublime was intact, or at least they represented it that way. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z King in notes cites the Bible verse that each track references, connecting written and sung messages into a sublime, often-ethereal whole. Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z HBO’s “The Young Pope,” beginning on Sunday and showing Sundays and Mondays, is a visually sublime but textually ridiculous horror tale in which the monster is the pontiff himself. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z It is sublime, the stuff of emperors and kings. Where Should You Eat in New York? Go to These Favorite Spots 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z When the two Orphii did strike the right balance, the effect was sublime — the peculiar penmanship of Orlinski’s voice tracing elegant figures around Hopkins’s steely delivery. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s expansiveness is sublime; Ashton’s concentration is intoxicating. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z The most convincing gallery is probably the one of religious art, in which the curators argue that the philosophy of the sublime led artists to explore more personal expressions of faith. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z I hoped that instead of an educational foray, I’d get an impressionistic tour, one somehow suffused with the aesthetic of Mr. Butcher’s sublime large-format photographs of the swamp. Pursuits: ‘Walking the Water’ in the Everglades 2013-08-09T19:47:13Z She often characterizes romantic love as a kind of sublime balm—as the best way to dull the blues of living—but she is endlessly frank about its limitations and challenges. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z There’s a sublime beauty there that captures the romantic view of the American West. Six of the best US national trails – chosen by experts 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z On Thursday the pair will deliver cuts from Mr. Volpe’s recently released album, the sublime “32 Levels,” on which Lil B is featured. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The point is simple: while taking the step from the ridiculous to the sublime, the best melodramas haven’t yet lifted the back foot. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The reader can decide whether this is sublime or ridiculous. Review of ‘Red or Dead’: Liverpool’s Bill Shankly, the Odysseus of Anfield As staged by Mr. Cromer, who directed the sublime revival of “Our Town” at the same theater, “Tribes” forces us to hear with our eyes as well. Theater Review: ?Tribes,? by Nina Raines, at the Barrow Street Theater 2012-03-05T03:00:00Z But “Fantasy and Invention” provides a quick primer on their weird and wonderful style — and a fleeting glimpse of those sublime flights of imagination perceived by Vasari. Art Review: Rosso Fiorentino at the Morgan Library 2012-11-29T22:55:37Z With this group, it seems, for a little sublime, you get a lot of ridiculous. Music Review: Australian Voices Focuses on Music From Home 2013-06-27T20:13:38Z As an English professor, you surely know the thrills of classic romance narratives — triangles, stolen moments and ill-advised liaisons, among other sublime pleasures — in books like “Women in Love,” by D.H. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z There are moments of white-liberal affectation so sublime that they waft off the page like laughing gas. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z If ever I lost interest in this music, it is to this sublime recording I would return to recover it. ArtsBeat: 'The Nutcracker' Chronicles: Listening to the Score 2010-12-31T21:29:20Z Worse for Republicans, some prominent high-minded Northerners exalted Brown’s crime as a sublime act by a Christlike hero who transcended petty party politics. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “So I checked the Internet,” she continued as the sublime countryside rushed past. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z What he calls “post-human” buildings — whose boredom he finds “hypnotic” and “banality breathtaking” — represent, he says, a “new sublime.” Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Hurley inhabits the mystery of Mary with sublime composure and aplomb: She’s fascinating and otherworldly, even before she actually lifts off. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z And the sublime insight of “Inside Out,” a movie about the importance of feeling bad sometimes. The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z I like to serve these alongside a simple but sublime sandwich I learned from a Darjeeling tea planter that’s prepared with shredded chicken, mayonnaise and fresh mint. What does Mom want for Mother’s Day? Tea, nibbles — and time with you. 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Moose, hare and beaver have a subtle difference in taste, but all are sublime. Moose, Anyone? In Newfoundland, Food Both Rustic and Sophisticated 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s very much about ideas of art and the sublime. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z But it will not change the fact that his work over the decades, when he was physically strong, was generally sublime. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A delicate poise between kitsch and the sublime is the hallmark of their greatest songs, like 2001’s “Digital Love” and the new album’s “Fragments of Time.” Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z What might be strange enough to be sublime again? Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z The sublime can happen very unexpectedly, as Yeats said. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Just as a listener is rewarded with sublime orchestral music after surviving one of Wagner’s more interminable monologues, Feldman’s score shifts gears just about when you reach your breaking point. Music Review: A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too) 2014-04-29T21:11:41Z Backstage, we watched Prince walk out to a rapturous reception, and then we were exposed to two hours of sublime musical genius. Seal: Prince ‘Made It OK For You to Be You' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He could be contemplating the wilderness stretching out before him or the wonders of the infinite sublime. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z Instead, he says he finds the beauty and wonder of the universe sublime enough. Alan Alda: 'It's amazing that most of us live as if we're not gonna die' 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The great U-turn was not sublime, exactly, but neither was it mundane. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z It’s more charming than sublime, a silly pop-culture throwaway full of funny creatures, terrible dialogue and breathless acting. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z They were filled with carved figures — some free standing, some cut in high relief from living rock — that have long been considered among the most sublime images in Chinese art. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z Mehretu maps the contemporary sublime — a mental, cultural and political landscape of terrifying confusion — by charting her own reactions to it. Review | At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z It provided an ideal medium for the British romantics of the early-19th century with their outdoor views of the organic sublime, of nature perpetually on the move. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z "It was completely sublime and pastoral and beautiful," she says. Fiona Banner: fight and flight 2010-06-21T20:30:00Z It's terrifying and sublime at the same time. Raime Q&A 2012-08-13T09:23:11Z Some paintings shock with their absolute perfection, like the sublime “Girl With Pigeons.” Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z With the Millennium bridge glowing over them like a pink half moon, shimmering electro-techno anthems such as Doubt and Counterpoint seem to grow in stature, making a sublime sound and spectacle under the night sky. Evolution festival 2010-06-01T20:29:00Z "I love the Villa Kérylos on France’s Côte d’Azur. The nostalgia for an imagined past is poignant and palpable throughout the neoclassical house, which was constructed in the early 20th century. Its beauty is sublime." AD100 Architects and Designers' Most Inspiring Travel Destinations 2014-04-01T04:00:00Z This is one of the most sublime and strangely mature works of art in the world: a truly compassionate thing, almost a Bach cantata in paints. Artist Rogier van der Weyden: my Easter TV hero | Jonathan Jones 2010-04-02T09:02:00Z “Bosch represents an implacable, inexorable divine justice — sublime retribution that will punish each and every crime,” he wrote in an essay for the forthcoming Prado exhibition catalog. For Hieronymus Bosch, One Helluva Homecoming 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z It was a generous bowl filled with exactly the items promised, and the soy sauce was indeed sublime. One order of ‘Thousand Year Old Eggs with Jellyfish,’ please 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z One is a sublime riff on chips and dip, featuring airy tapioca chips and lush spring onion dip. Pineapple and Pearls is already living up to its lofty expectations — and price 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “I am as submissive as I am dominant. And I am as sublime as I am ridiculous. Good luck figuring me out.” Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z This sublime layering of folk textures, Minimalism and electroacoustic experimentation made for an exhilarating finish to the evening. Celebrating a Union That Rewired Classical Music 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Loving "Pose" means accepting such nonsense, if not all of it, as the trade-off for basking in the sublime. "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Two pounds of Maine lobster is two pounds of sublime eating. Review | The stars of the show at Cut by Wolfgang Puck might surprise you 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Cass Gilbert’s sublime cathedral to the Walmart of its day, from 1913 — the tallest building in the world for many years. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z But halfway through, it ran delightfully amok, when Martin Frost — the soloist for the evening, in a superb performance of Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto — broke loose in an encore. Music Review: Martin Frost, Clarinetist, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2013-12-09T21:54:32Z The composers’ approaches couldn’t be more different: In his sprawling, methodical works, Bruckner seeks the sublime within the strict confines of protocol. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Hearing those words in my ear, as they fill my eyes, is sublime delirium. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z It's definitely a score for the museum, boasting iconic and sublime works by figures such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly and others. Sneak peek: Touring the new SFMOMA, San Francisco's billowing new contemporary museum 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Often the dividing line between the great and the sublime is the quality of the ingredients. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z But somehow, some of our attempts to take stock of this condition — our songs and stories and moving pictures, old and new — manage to be beautiful, even sublime. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z The “Romantic” is the source of all sorts of musical goodies you may have heard elsewhere — the roots of the Interlochen theme, the strangely sublime end-credit music in Ridley Scott’s 1979 thriller “Alien,” for example. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z It is at the point of death that Kissoon's Antony is most ridiculous and most sublime. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z If our hog roast is great, I’m afraid theirs is utterly sublime. How to make the perfect porchetta 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The script originally called for a “Sam Shepard-like character” called The Stranger – here, Mike Judge was sublime. Michael Fassbender really pulls the Big Lebowski live read together 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z But it was the world premiere of Thomas DeLio’s “sound/shivering/silence II” that provided some of the most sublime music of the evening. American Music Festival wraps up with a bang from percussion ensemble 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Although less of a revelation than the Orange Tree's sublime Taking Steps, this production reminds us that we still undervalue Ayckbourn's ability to mix mechanical skill and disquieting truth. Bedroom Farce | Theatre reivew 2010-04-04T21:10:00Z This is another record I’ve been listening to for close to forty years, every song/arrangement/performance is sublime. Listening Booth: Impulse! Records 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z My stay was punctuated by ordinary activities that become extraordinary at Goldeneye: transcendent outdoor showers under a half-moon; sublime swims in the lazy lagoon, escorted by flying fish and butterflies. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z The Hudson River School of painters, founded in 1825 by Thomas Cole, portrayed that landscape as a path to the sublime, and citizens hastened out of crowded cities to follow that path. How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The monster, though granted the sublime energy of his appetite, is still essentially evil: we gasp when it emerges unsuspected and cheer when it is, at last, blown up. The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z And Dorrance’s choreography for the show’s opening, arranging the cast’s varying footfalls in rhythmic counterpoint, is sublime. Review: In ‘Flying Over Sunset,’ Getting High With the Stars 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z And then, most sublime, came Twitter, granting us a real-time window into the hair-trigger thoughts of everyone from the lowliest statehouse reporter to the presumptive GOP nominee. Sidewire: The chatter site for political junkies who haven’t already maxed out 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But we were treated to the sublime sight of molten light dying on the water. In the Greek islands, a ‘slow travel’ sailing odyssey to the far Ionians 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In his Gluck compilation, we move from the life of the dead to life after death; it’s a resurrection in which the secular becomes sublime. City Ballet Revives Three Pieces in Repertory 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Beautifully crafted, sublime melody … and raw, fragile and honest emotion. Neil Young: a beginner's guide 2012-10-01T16:12:28Z It felt, especially to the grandiose kid that was me at the time, like one of those sublime serendipities in which big cities, with all their complexity and potential, specialize. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Whatever happens in between is mysterious, if not sublime: suddenly, an ordinary sensation is made beautiful. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z New York’s sublime distaff lead, Kelli O’Hara, for one, alongside a capaciousness to the Lincoln Center Theatre incarnation that is hard to approximate within the confines of the Barbican. Theater Review: Boys' Night Out, Girls' Night Out, and 'The Faith Machine' 2011-09-06T12:00:05Z It was delicate yet elaborate, refined and expensive — a performance art of finely julienned vegetables, sublime sauces, towering souffles. I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. My mother-in-law taught me an easier way. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Adult fans of the genre — or of the Harry Potter chronicles — will find the movie perfectly tolerable, and might treat it as a gateway for the more sublime pleasures of Mr. Miyazaki’s best work. Review: ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ Chases a Girl and Her Broomstick 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Crane loved boxing, which he described as “two sublime machines of human muscle-play in the vivid light of a ‘ring’—stark darkness all around with yells form all sides and countless eyes gleaming.” America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z Naturally, they are also sublime with Nutella, as most things in life are. Two-ingredient Nutella palmiers are the easiest cookies you'll ever make 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z If Cyriak can reproduce his sublime talent on a larger scale, great. The surreal YouTube genius of Cyriak | Peter Bradshaw 2010-03-31T08:38:00Z At what the sublime singer-guitarist duo describe as their biggest gig, the audience handclaps start early and end with a standing ovation, writes Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. The Civil Wars cancel UK tour dates owing to 'irreconcilable differences' 2012-11-07T10:54:54Z You know what’s coming, and when it does, it lands with the devastation of an asteroid strike; the domestic turns into something sublime. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But would this grand intersection of art and gastronomy turn out to be sublime or a sham? Choice Tables: Museum Restaurants: Where Art and Haute Cuisine Meet in Paris 2010-03-12T17:06:00Z Eventually you pull away, and the wider scene reverts to that bird’s eye pastoral sublime. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The German-born artist said she wanted something that linked the National Gallery and its sublime landscapes and the square itself, with its themes of monumentality and conquering – hence, a mountain. Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth faces huge cock up 2010-08-19T14:10:00Z Yet during the sublime concert film of the same name, the song becomes still more affecting as we watch Bruce, who’s now 70, add a stronger, harder undercurrent of cautious hope. ‘Western Stars’ Review: Bruce Springsteen and Broken Cowboys 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The scene in which Demian’s character is visited by his son in jail is sublime! The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Eugenio Derbez 2012-02-24T23:03:13Z Tarkovsky’s film is a languid, internalised meditation with an eye on the sublime; Soderbergh’s is trimmer and blunter, but just as moving in its way. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Richard Rhodes captures that quality perfectly in this sublime little book. Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Wan works mightily to lend the stiff action flamboyant style, but his garish near-miss proves that there’s only a short misstep from the sublime to the ridiculous. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z While participants don all modes of spring finery — from the wacky to the sublime — homemade bonnets are a big draw. Spare Times for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:15:56Z Giraldi’s understanding is often perceptive and eloquent while somehow falling short of that last clarifying twist of insight that would vault his account into the ranks of the sublime. ‘The Hero’s Body’: The dangerous world of hyper-macho men 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The painter has been making sublime drawings of night skies and the lunar surface since the nineteen-sixties, and would bring a welcome phlegmatic nuance. Which Artists Should the Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Invite to the Moon? 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z We may find something sublime in the gaps between the keys. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z Today it’s chiefly notable for this sublime piece of pantomime as its lowly hero fires up a cigar and proceeds to electrify an empty boardroom. Jerry Lewis: from Cinderfella to King of Comedy – a career in clips 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In a sublime bit of kitsch that only she could pull off, Celine Dion duets with a projection of herself in her current Las Vegas residency, and lightly banters with her ephemeral clone. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The fifth section contains Eliot's most sublime moments of religious contemplation as he thinks about "hints and guesses", which is all we ever get: "and the rest / Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action". The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z With the help of creatively deployed sound design, episodes simulate the alternately alienating and sublime experience of inhabiting a strange land. Best Podcasts of 2022 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Whiteread created her 2005 Tate Turbine Hall installation Embankment, which translated the sublime white wastes of a glacial landscape into immense piles of white boxes: a haunting work of landscape art. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z In an empathic tenor, his eyes loaded with sublime kindness, a public-television star lifts a song of loss to an audience of well-behaved children. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Some of the links he makes are beyond tenuous—at one point he compares African elephants to the storm in “King Lear” on the grounds that both are “sublime grey objects”. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Yes, precious sirs, this tuneless journey we are on—it is sublime! Play It Again (for the First Time) 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Caravaggio was a murderer but his paintings are sublime. Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z And when a cast meshes so well that it manages to create something sublime, shouldn’t all of them be honored as one? Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In his review, Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune said the production “genuinely places dance and comedy in conversation,” and he only complained that the second act was "slightly less sublime" than the first. Music Center dance lineup for 2015-16: Second City, hip-hop, Ratmansky 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The massiveness of the poured concrete structures and piled rock embankments hits you in ways 18th century philosophers described as sublime. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Sibelius, like Burchfield, captured the dark side of the sublime, the engulfing danger of it. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z But the place also prepares a sublime poc chuc, a Yucatan dish of pounded pork marinated in sour orange and grilled hard, its tartness balanced with char the color of West Texas crude. The hunt for the D.C. area’s best cheap-eats hotbeds: Ritchie Center 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Gatti’s magnificent account of the sublime Adagio made a convincing case for it as a fitting end to this work: a composer’s farewell. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Artie Butler’s arrangements are sublime, giving Lee’s anguish plenty of dramatic flourish. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But for the husband who’s brave enough to jump in there and explore, there are sublime pleasures to be uncovered. From “kosher sex” to love maps, 5 tips for keeping your sex life hot 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z At its funniest, this 21st century form of techno-Dadaism is a sublime collaboration between humans and machines, merging the creativity of one with the robotic uncanniness of the other into an original comic voice. Can algorithms be funny? Veterans of Clickhole and the New Yorker team up to find out. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Bronfman made a compelling whole of the work, with insightfully shaded dynamics, impetuous rhythmic flights and, in the two Andante movements, sublime tenderness. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-25T21:50:22Z “The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately,” Tom Paine wrote in “The Age of Reason.” The Idolatry of Glaciers, Rocks and Leni Riefenstahl 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And in the sublime final Adagio, especially the hushed moments of the ending, when the music seems unwilling to trail off, the performance achieved Mahlerian transcendence. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z That already sublime evening, at the end of a week that seemed to last forever, ended in a wonderfully I-love-New York way. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And so chewing on pork products becomes a sublime union of self with planet, a Gaian eucharist. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z The second movement Larghetto, one of Mozart’s most sublime creations, sounded hauntingly lovely. Music Review: London Haydn Quartet Brings Its Gut Strings to the Morgan 2014-01-22T20:26:03Z When we asked what rest meant to them, they often used words such as restorative, sublime or precious, but they also used words like guilty and irritating. We need to learn how to relax, without guilt 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Adamsdale's jargon is likewise sublime – and there are droll new coinages tonight. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z It’s hard to pick one song from this amazing album … but speaking of “cry,” Jimmy Knepper’s playing on this is heartbreaking, and, of course, Gil’s writing is sublime. Listening Booth: Impulse! Records 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z And it’s just painful and funny and sublime. Lauren Ambrose Just Wants to Go to French Clown School 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Omaha Steaks may be known for their, well, steak, but these sublime tartlets are well worth buying for the apple aficionado in your life. The best food gifts for every kind of eater 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z It gets the same respect and attention as, say, the duck confit, and even burger aficionados agree it is among the most sublime. Zuni Café at 40: Still a Home for the Eclectic 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z So, he added, “I love the idea that is so outrageous that it becomes sublime.” Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z "Deceptively simple. The result is a soft and sublime transformation of a good whiskey, while still allowing it to hold center stage." Lentils, tinned fish and chickpeas — oh my! Dispatches from my Great Pantry Clean Out 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The show’s best moments were deep dives into the ridiculous sublime, as when she sang “Dark Horse” from atop a puppet horse manipulated by a few of her industrious backup dancers. Katy Perry at Madison Square Garden 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z This is far from the ceremony that many of us hear in this sublime music, yet Mr. Morris makes you hear its sublimity in new ways. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z There is a sublime clip of her performing an athletic medley—“Respect,” “Today I Sing the Blues,” and “Spirit of the Lord”—live on B.E.T., sometime in the aughts. Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z There is a story, probably apocryphal, that Sternberg once suggested his movies be projected upside down, so that audiences wouldn’t be distracted from the sublime play of light and shadow on the screen. DVDs: Three Silent Josef von Sternberg Reveries From Criterion 2010-08-21T05:00:00Z Truncating sublime arias and ensemble numbers is a loss, but it’s smoothly done here. Review: Fresh Talent Fuels ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z When I look at my own record collection, I see a desperate monument to my desire for that feeling—for some fleeting brush with the sublime. Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Yet she was not the model for her sublime creations. Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z “You look at their early prints, you’re going to see DeCarava-ish touches, hiding things in the shadows, this extended, sublime gray scale, not always sharply delineating things,” Mr. Mason said. ‘Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z For me Mr. Anderszewski’s attention to detail and nuance is compelling; a sense of intensely personal identification with each piece is inescapable and utterly sublime. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z Sure, the film sometimes gets too syrupy — hey, it’s a date movie — but the way this tale finally ties into one of the others is sublime. | 'Hot Summer Days': Intertwining Love and Obsession 2010-10-01T00:23:00Z There are long, spun-out melodies at moments of introspection, such as her Act 2 prayer and the sublime aria “Al dolce giudami.” Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z The ripped-from-the-headlines true story would be engrossing any way you slice it, but Jackman elevates the facts into a sublime dramatic work. Bad Education: is this Hugh Jackman's greatest performance to date? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Light was scientific data to the French Impressionists, the raw material of an optical sublime. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z His recording of Wagner’s “Solemn March to the Holy Grail” from “Parsifal,” as transcribed by Liszt, is one the most hauntingly sublime tracks of the year. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The drastically downward-cascading scales suggest grand tragedy, the harp introduction suggests celestial bliss, and the symphonic buildup suggests an ascent to the sublime. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Riddles With Many Answers 2011-01-02T23:00:23Z It’s got enough strong elements that it could still blossom into a better show — for now, it mixes the sublime with the ridiculous as liberally as an AM Top 40 radio station. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 5: Hannibal’s Anagrams 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Diaghilev was a new kind of artist: he was an operator as much as a beauty-maker, as savage as he was sublime. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z And with art given sublime voice here by the British countertenor Iestyn Davies, you are unlikely to argue with the King’s belief in its holy transcendence. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Last Year at Marienbad … sublime or a load of old boots? Anne Billson: Why films either 'suck' or they're 'cool' 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z The choice of monochrome tethers the paintings to an art historical continuum, all the way back to Malevich’s “Black Square,” an effect artists appreciate for its spiritual purity and ability to distill the natural sublime. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Swift, of course, antedated Edmund Burke, whose conception of "great objects and terrible" gave birth to the Romantic notions of the psychologised sublime. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Imagine that: somber Alfred Tennyson overcome by a sublime and solitary “LOL.” Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I loved Opus 110, which begins with a sublime, rustling first movement and ends with a formidable fugue. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z In his review, Times TV critic Robert Lloyd called the show "darkly sublime." 'Penny Dreadful' will return for second season 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z This was the high moment of Abstract Expressionism, with its image of the heroic artist battling his way alone toward some existential sublime. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z Decorated by Adil Ahmad, the new lodgings, set in a sublime 1729 maharaja’s residence, feature a bevy of vivacious colors and patterns, including 48 custom-made wallpapers that reflect the area’s flamboyant architectural heritage. Passage to India 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z This “Jena Set” undoubtedly saw themselves as magnificent rebels — gloriously free spirits bent on centering the self, in all of its sublime subjectivity, and throwing off the shackles of a stultifying, mechanistic order. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z For inspiration she drew on the biblical story of Mary and Martha, two sisters, one who symbolizes devotion to worldly affairs and the other devotion to the sublime — life, you might say, and the afterlife. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z And while birding can be high-energy, it’s the quieter moments that Jason Ward finds the most sublime. The Week in Arts: Idris Elba, Taking on War and José González 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The film accompanies him in his green pickup truck as he patrols the streets of Los Angeles, pointing out the best places to find fiery Southern Thai stews and sublime Oaxacan moles. Review: Tastes of Los Angeles in ‘City of Gold’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In her performance at the Erasing Borders festival, dance and mime converged in a tale of the young Krishna, with her footwork, torso, arms and spiraling turns wafting the gestures into the sublime. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Its eventual $173m US take was extremely impressive; like the sublime Bad Santa, The Night Before is too edgy to compete with that. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 fails to satiate box-office bloodlust across the world 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The painters also shared this: Their work aspires to, and at times achieves, “the sublime” — “a term,” Plumly once wrote in an essay, “of breathtaking, soaring, awe-inspiring fear and fascination, a traveling word evoking out-of-the-body.” Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Sounds like a sublime twist on audience participation. Town Hall acoustics are just one of the 'instruments' used by the Deep Listening Band 2011-01-14T20:43:06Z The entire movie is filled with an absolute splendor of the pulp sublime, and that moment is its very apogee. What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Here was dance as music, meter, harmony, sculpture, architecture, drama, all on a sublime level. Review: Dance Arrives From India. If Only It Could Stay Longer. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z When I watch them, my mind goes to a Jerome Robbins quote about “Dances at a Gathering,” his sublime 1969 ensemble ballet. French Olympic Ice Dancers Make Skating as Ethereal as Ballet 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z What we said: "Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, 'Black Messiah' is as vital as it is sublime." Top 10 lists reveal harmony among Times pop music critics 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Considered by scholars to be one of the most important images of its kind from early Southeast Asia, this ends the show with a fitting distillation of old and new, earthly and sublime. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z His own film output was vast and, at times, sublime. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before. Portrait of the artist: Joe Wright, film director 2011-08-22T21:33:01Z "There was something sublime about them and about Britain at that time" he wrote. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z We wouldn’t want to be the ones to trim an hour of Mozart’s sublime “The Magic Flute.” ‘The Magic Flute,’ Trimmed Down, at the Metropolitan Opera 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z It was a sublime end to a three-stop experiment in which I sampled lodgings that presented several versions of “rustic.” Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z Morrison is famously curmudgeonly, and there's more black humour in the sublime Goin' Down to Monte Carlo. Van Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B – review 2012-09-27T21:18:01Z When it was new, “Die Zauberflöte,” however sublime its arias and choruses, would have been seen, like other singspiels, as a combination of carnival and vaudeville, an essentially popular entertainment. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “What in the 19th century they called the sublime. That element of fear just makes it more beautiful.” Critic’s Notebook: A New York Premiere for John Luther Adams’s ‘Become Ocean’ 2014-05-05T21:43:52Z Bach succeeded, of course, surpassing many of his own sublime keyboard pieces with the “Goldberg” Variations. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z However, Daniel Huddlestone as Jack, and the other cast members were superb and even sublime and the aforementioned, while not my preference, do not ruin a solid and engagingly fun story. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Despite his emphasis on accuracy, Mr. Gergiev was flexible in the rondo’s big lyrical theme, which anticipates the sublime final Adagio, played here with eloquence and dignity. Music Review: A Conquering Climax to a Tribute to Mahler 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z Although all guts are sublime, just how they do what they do varies among species, much as do the leaves on trees or beaks on birds. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z This poem raises to a sublime level what Stevens once called a war "between the mind and sky." The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z On his most sublime and sedate album, this underrated Minneapolis truth-seeker manipulates the strings of his guitar in gorgeous drips and drizzles. Best music of 2018: Serpentwithfeet has a voice unlike any other 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z We were led to seats out back overlooking San Simeon Bay, where the scenery and ocean soundtrack were sublime. On California’s Central Coast, a low-key exploration of wineries, restaurants and nature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z But it’s always a barometer of how well Balanchine style is being honored, often giving glimpses of the sublime. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A Schumann recital with a difference, shared between Ms. Persson, a sublime acting soprano, and Mr. Boesch, an incessantly probing baritone. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z There is also the sublime episode Are You Right There Father Ted, in which everything the hapless cleric does convinces various people on Craggy Island that he is rabidly rightwing. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z There was something sublime, too, in his full-throated, drunken, unhinged, behind-the-wheel performance of “Home Sweet Home” in “Hot Tub Time Machine,” in a garage. Rob Corddry and the Healing Power of Laughter 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “When I was really young, I found this music really exciting, uplifting and sublime,” Christ said. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z What he doesn’t know is that this hunt will lead to a vision of the sublime and to love. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z At their best, these are sublime gardens because the exotica signals the passion and the presence of the gardener. A bonnie glimpse of the exotic 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Toward the end, Meadow considers how to create a “glimpse of the sublime.” ‘Innocents and Others’: Female friendship through the lens of film 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In one sublime sequence, included on the "Exile" DVD, a lugubrious Richards makes a slurred and unsuccessful attempt to order a bowl of fruit from a woman in a Southern hotel. The Rolling Stones' forbidden documentary 2010-05-22T18:01:00Z Five days later Mr. Kjartansson’s “Bliss” turned a snippet of Mozart at his most sublime into a work of endurance art. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11 Is Bigger but Not Better 2011-11-25T23:51:33Z The heel is a rival armaments mogul named Justin Hammer, played with a sublime mixture of pomposity and cluelessness by Sam Rockwell. Movie Review: Superhero Sequel With Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke 2010-05-06T19:33:00Z Certain moments, like an off-balance solo for the sublime Ms. Alexander, felt muddy, more dutiful than necessary. Dance Review: Anna Sperber?s ?ForeverandaDay? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-10-28T22:17:09Z One of my favourite food writers, Diana Henry, uses a little serrano ham in this sublime bean salad. 25 recipe ideas for leftover ham 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Or, in Frederick Wiseman’s patient and sublime “Monrovia, Indiana,” feeling assumptions gently and insistently undermined and replaced by an understanding that is all the more powerful for being nearly impossible to articulate. Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Loux suggests experience; Mr. Vinson, naïveté; but they’re more in harmony than contrasted, and it’s in their interaction with the group that Mr. Morris’s gift for geometry as drama touches on the mysteriously sublime. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Blomstedt’s reading of the Nielsen, controlled but unmannered, was one of sublime balance. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Longstanding indie rock act Man Man were carnival weirdness while New Jersey's Real Estate were lushly sublime. FYF Fest 2014: Angel Olsen smolders while fans bake in lines 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z The films range from the ridiculous to the sublime. Brice Dellsperger: ‘Body Double: Vous N’en Croirez Pas Vos Yeux’ 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The Second has a sublime slow movement, but the rest is training-wheels stuff. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Because white people have been representing the white figure for so long, they can move on to the sublime. How Rollerblading Propelled Maxwell Alexandre’s Art Career 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z That’s the Golden Gardens aesthetic — looking at the ordinary and finding the sublime. Golden Gardens’ ethereal tunes come Thursday to High Dive 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Seemed like as good a definition of the sublime as any. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Capped with whipped cream and sprinkled with chocolate beads, the pudding is just a few sublime, well-placed ingredients. Review | Via Sophia brings twists to Italian dining at a downtown hotel 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “The tension between this fantastic sublime stuff and this flawed eccentric character — he certainly ticked off all the boxes for me as a character in a Mike Leigh film,” the director said. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Sitting in an immense and surreal landscape, with its broad palette of dusky reds and browns beneath a vast sky, it is one of the most sublime settings for a town in North America. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z After all, who expects the sublime from fast food? Super Bowl in the age of anxiety: Maroon 5's boring halftime show was a symptom, not the disease 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Here is a top-notch Italian bubbly and a sublime grower champagne that shows why that region is the ne plus ultra of sparkling wine. Sip this $12 Italian red and observe as its flavors unfurl and develop 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z She was to interior space what painters of the sublime were to the natural world, an explorer and an adventurer, charting new realms of ambition, desire and ennui. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z What is being requested, Coetzee writes, is a kind of “sublimation, as alcohol is sublimed from water, leaving no residue, no aftertaste.” Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z But sublime as it is, under our current “shelter in place” order, I went a bit stir crazy in under a week; 10 days of enforced idleness could seem like a year. When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z With his lips puckered and a giant orange wig-wad on his head, the bearded redhead Andrew Knox impersonates Trumpian arrogance with sublime cool. Second City puts sting in ‘Almost Accurate Guide to America’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z In his sci-fi films, Spielberg proves remarkable in his desire to reach for joy, a celebratory sublime. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Some — all women — have touched on the sublime. Odissi Stars at a Dance Festival in Chennai, India 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z A vision of the sublime is at hand in the unspoiled beauty of the countryside. Review: ‘Sunset Song’ Shows a Woman’s True Grit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Bellinger understands the power of multiple voices at once, how a choir can turn the banal into something sublime. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z And much of what can be sublime in theater goes beyond words. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z But the best moments are still pretty sublime. Critic’s Notebook: On ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ All Entendres as Double 2014-03-31T21:40:49Z It’s about seeing different aspects of the beauty of garden plants, such as the perfect candleflame symmetry of a dawn redwood or the sublime harlequin patterns of ash tree bark. If you’re a restless gardener, there is plenty to do in February 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Gish, of course, is sublime, but what a climax to Pickford’s career the part would have been, if only she’d been less afraid of those laughing audiences. DVD: New DVDs, Mary Pickford on Blu-ray, Early Perry Mason 2012-11-18T01:53:01Z But also worthy here are two deeply personal scripts: Baumbach’s stirring portrait of divorce “Marriage Story” and Almodovar’s unfortunately overlooked “Pain and Glory,” a sublime, autobiographical work. Oscar Predictions: Can ‘Parasite’ upset ‘1917’? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pasternak, Chekhov, check them all off; Groskop is just sorry there’s only one woman, the sublime Anna Akhmatova, on her list. Review | The surprising — and surprisingly funny — lessons one woman learned from Russian literature 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Equally, the sublime V Thirteen is an early reminder that BAD wrote some terrific songs. Big Audio Dynamite ? review 2011-03-31T17:06:56Z And it’s keenly evident in some of these stories, none more treacherous and sublime than “Fire Horse.” The Concealed Weapons of ‘Kiss Me Someone’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In fairness, she is endlessly spellbinding whether angry or jolly, but she's sublime when irked. Dragons' Den: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-07-29T23:08:45Z Clark’s new album, “Big Day In a Small Town” is the big budget go-for-the-charts follow-up to her sublime first album, 2013’s “12 Stories.” Brandy Clark, the Raymond Carver of the Hot Country charts: “I live in a world where we have to tell a whole story in just three minutes” 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z There's a nod to the sublime, sugary pleasures found in a piece of Bit-O-Honey. 'The Judge': Robert Downey Jr. now has some material for his reel 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Creator Dennis Kelly, the wonderfully diverse talent who created the sublime Pulling and whose adaptation of Matilda has proved a runaway West End hit, seems to be a master of all trades, jack of none. Utopia – box set review 2013-05-30T14:00:01Z He claimed to have had “a sublime experience.” Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z “The End” sounded ruinous and sublime in “Apocalypse Now.” Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z The second half, comprised of requests received on their website, brings a deliciously murky Sweet Jane, and an extended Working on a Building is the epitome of "sublime gothic-blues creepiness". Cowboy Junkies – review 2013-01-28T17:59:07Z Wealthy collectors also loved landscapes, which Dutch painters had launched into the sublime. Review: Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But while the accounts can be sublime, at least to a scoop-hungry reporter, they can also leave one unsatisfied. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z It is such a sublime dining experience it will tempt even the committed vegetarian to fall off the wagon for an evening. Bites: Restaurant Review: Le Grand Pan, in Paris 2012-01-27T17:21:56Z The pan-fried ones are also crispier, which makes for a sublime contrast as your teeth crack through the browned base of a dumpling and right into the doughy flesh of its pinched wrapper. Review | At this Maryland restaurant, hand-pulled noodles are the star attraction 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z With dazzling imagination and sublime control, the show’s cast and crew conjure a delirious, dynamic, highly pettable world. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z One might say it is been a journey from the sublime to the ridiculous. One for the Road – review 2013-02-12T17:38:47Z Judge Jason Gardiner said her performance was "sublime" while fellow judge Karen Barber appeared tearful after watching the routine. 2010-02-15T09:48:00Z Every time a shot paused on the Irish vampires—red heads dressed in various shades of green, fisherman sweaters and tweed caps—the audience howled at the sublime artifice. It Was the Best of the Worst of Times: Breaking Dawn-Part 2 2012-11-15T21:09:35Z In his shots of his fireplace, his sink and other household realities, he seems continually to teeter between the mundane and the menacing, the banal and the sublime. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z Yet while the banality undercuts the element of the sublime, this artist's work is full of a sense of longing for what's been lost. Artist of the week 116: Tim Gardner 2010-12-02T17:32:00Z On “Bugs,” Evans also demonstrated a deep knowledge of jazz’s folk idiom: His solo spilled without fuss into sublime blues work. Review | The Bad Plus 2.0 sounds as sublime as the 1.0 version 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z The seafood can be sublime and the prices extremely modest, especially compared with summer havens like Italy’s Amalfi Coast or the French Riviera. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z Then Romantics such as Edmund Burke and Joseph Addison beheld it with "pleasing astonishment" as a manifestation of the sublime. Wish You Were Here: England On Sea by Travis Elborough 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z This is landscape writing, but not as we know it: descriptions so scoured of the delusions of the pastoral and the grandiosities of the sublime that the places they record seems surreal for being true. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z Others, like the minimalist open-air pavilion by Foster + Partners in Marseille, France, are sublime studies in simplicity. Ten Daring New Buildings Around the World 2014-01-09T05:00:00Z Suzanne Farrell, the sublime ballerina and creator of many lead roles for the choreographer George Balanchine, was back in the studio where he made many of his masterworks for New York City Ballet. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z It is that gap that distinguishes the ordinary from the sublime. A garden the ‘Downton Abbey’ crowd would drool over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z I find it shockingly cheesy and can't quite reconcile it with other sublime passages in the same film. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:43Z Sometimes they’ve been viewed more or less as training exercises: good for technique but not quite sublime. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z No house built on such a sublime foundation, buttressed by the horns and gospel choirs of a hundred classic midcentury R&B albums, should be this empty inside. Review | Sam Smith: Sadness with a whole lot of emptiness 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z His writing about music is nearly always sublime. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Offer the Pleasures of Big Ideas and Everyday Life 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z One of the butts of it is Madam Ford’s extravagantly possessive husband, portrayed by the sublime Gbenga Akinnagbe, who is allowed some rewarding runway here for his comic range. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The gravel road is a spine-rattling change from a two-lane country highway, but the meander itself is sublime in its beauty and variety. In South Africa, Fine-Art Landscapes for Postcard Prices 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z He aims for the sublime almost constantly, and usually gets most of the way there. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Claiming to be "the first exhibition to explore the history of human perception of volcanoes", this display fits perfectly with our 21st-century apocalyptic rediscovery of the Romantic sublime. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z But my favorite Davis painting shuns any hint of the sublime. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z As an improviser, Don Cherry could make his chintzy pocket trumpet into a stealth vehicle of the sublime. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It becomes tiresome, pointing out what a sublime rapper Minaj is, and what a merely effective pop siren. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z And they ultimately reached the sublime: Iris van Herpen’s 18 stations of the future. At Louis Vuitton and Valentino, Mapping the Season’s Genome 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “Winning the final over England would be sublime, but losing to them would be so awful that I’m hoping for Croatia,” said one Twitter fan by the name of Antoine. France holds collective breath as World Cup feats fuel joy and hope 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z There’s a feeling of presence and possibility throughout, as Grimes’s sonorous piano seems to dissolve into something sublime and vaporous, a reminder that there are always greater forces at play. Listening Booth: Rachel Grimes’s “The Clearing” 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The penultimate scene in the airport -- with Pam, who'd been playing hooky up till then, showing up for a last hug -- kicked the awareness of artifice up a notch, and the result was sublime. "Goodbye, Michael," and goodbye Steve Carell 2011-04-29T04:29:00Z While sold-out audiences across Europe find something sublime in his searching style, some classical critics disagree — like Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian, who says it’s nothing more than the “dashed-off poignancy of an Instagrammed sunset.” Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z His Hollywood model was George Cukor, a director of sublime taste and grace, who inhabited the writer’s words and world — in such film comedies as Holiday, The Women, and Adam’s Rib — and made them shine. The Sublime Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Because it's rarely more sublime than when it's embracing that daftness. The Mind Robber: Doctor Who classic episode #4 2013-03-28T13:01:24Z It was a look primed for a stage on a sublime plane, the red a reminder of sorrow’s vitality. The Sorrow and Vitality of Aretha Franklin’s Funeral 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet in among the flatulence jokes and unrestrained use of a genuine slap stick were pauses for some sublime, harmonic meditations the expressive equal of anything the northern Italian madrigal tradition has to offer. York Early Music festival 2010-07-12T21:30:00Z This book is a sublime and painful conjuring of a family’s grief and the misfit creature with the power to both haunt and help them. Max Porter's debut 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' soars with complexity 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z I never thought I’d use the word exalted for Warhol, or transcendent, or sublime. Meet Warhol, Again, in This Brilliant Whitney Show 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z On paper it’s pretty sordid, but Puccini’s gorgeous music elevates the experience to something sublime. Why Seattle Opera’s ‘Tosca’ is worth staying indoors for 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z He is more likely to scream into the telephone, or smash it to pieces, or some other sublime and unpredictable piece of business. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z What I've noticed, though, is that the influences that often matter most to novelists – allowing for the occasional big daddy glowering over your prose – are not writers at all but sublime practitioners in other artforms. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z From its exquisite endpapers, awash with wildflowers, and its sublime first words that evoke lolling in tall blue grasses, it captivates. Stop and Smell the Roses 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Among other things we sense the sheer sublime scale of phenomena that are light years across, and millions of light years away. Visions of the Universe exhibition reveals full wonder of space images 2013-06-11T13:29:42Z The connection between Turner, Monet and Twombly is less clear, but the Tate says the trio share "common characteristics and motivations" including a fascination with light, landscape, mythology, mortality, romanticism and the sublime. In Pictures: Turner Monet Twombly 2012-06-22T07:19:58Z But from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution some writers have found light in all this darkness, breathlessly hailing the sublime aspects of awe-inspiring infernos and discerning triumphant signs of progress and prosperity. What's wrong with England's 'dark satanic mills'? 2012-07-27T12:44:19Z And, for the fourth installment next year, the group is adding the cellist Johannes Rostamo to perform Schubert’s endlessly moving, even sublime String Quintet in C, paired with a commission from Thomas Adès. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z His films have a certain painterly quality and often show figures surveying sublime natural or architectural vistas, like figures in a landscape by the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Looking for Freedom, Isaac Julien Comes Home 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “There’s a sublime elegance to the way he presents himself in the world,” Lorre said. Michael Douglas Refuses to Age Gracefully in ‘The Kominsky Method’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Add balsamic reduction and Gorgonzola and the pie was sublime. Queen Margherita Neapolitan pizzeria worth a try 2011-12-01T21:50:05Z Last year’s champion, Boulevard Brewing’s sublime Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale, is the only beer from 2015 returning to the fray. Beer Madness 2016: It’s city vs. city in a craft-brewed battle of rivalries 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian The sublime and the ridiculous sit side by side in Adrian Noble's revival, a production modelled on one he staged at the Old Globe in San Diego in 2011. The Tempest – review 2012-08-30T11:05:05Z In bordeaux form, though, Serena Joy is “sophisticated, traditional and austere”, a wine we are advised not to “judge too quickly” or we might miss out on “a sublime experience”. Is The Handmaid's Tale wine collection the worst tie-in ever? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Bas Jan Ader definitely did put himself in harm's way to commune with, and communicate, the sublime grandeur of the ocean. Jonathan Truss's brush with death to paint great white sharks 2013-05-29T14:00:45Z Today, it seems that the plum role of villain Professor James Moriarty is set to go to Jared Harris, best known for playing strait-laced Brit Lane Pryce on the sublime US TV show Mad Men. Jared Harris nabs Moriarty role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel 2010-09-29T12:33:00Z The strongest recurring note, however, is of the sublime. Z.Z. Wei: Palouse landscapes that stretch and swirl 2012-09-10T20:39:04Z A recent review of Lortie’s recording of the waltzes called it “Chopin playing of sublime genius.” Louis Lortie runs through a Chopin marathon 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z "It's really lovely to hear that in a room with an audience," Jeffes says after the sublime Air A Danser, as much a fan of his father's legacy as anyone in the building. Portico Quartet/Penguin Cafe ? review 2011-02-09T19:30:01Z Mr. Nielsen’s ability to stay in character, to reel off sublime non sequiturs and koans of cluelessness with a precisely measured balance of dignity and density represents both a rare gift and considerable work. Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs 2010-12-01T20:43:00Z He drew glowing string sound from the Philharmonic in the sublime Adagietto, and brought shape and steady flow to the Rondo-Finale, with its long stretches of scrambled counterpoint. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z These same cities and villages hide timeworn streets, colorful literary history, world-class art collections, sublime eating experiences and some of the most decadent night life in Europe. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z Yet, in another sublime paradox, this very dramatic compression and abstraction renders the remarkable cast’s performances all the more powerful. Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” Challenges Hollywood to Do Better 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Her Pavlova, sublime blueberry sorbet resting on a pedestal of crisp coffee meringue, is definitely worth loosening the belt. San Francisco’s hottest restaurant is in an old auto body shop 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Yet “Mozartiana” takes us in the opposite direction, back into the mortal world and into sublime humor. New York City Ballet Performs Tchaikovsky-Balanchine Works 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z "The American Sublime" is a set of five poems by Stevens for baritone, winds, brass and percussion and begins with a startling drumroll to announce the question about the sublime. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Jason Wu Jason Wu Friday, Feb. 11, Center 548, 548 West 22nd Street “Jason Wu gave American sportswear a French kiss with his sublime collection.” | Jason Wu Wins! 2011-02-13T03:32:44Z The sublime is as appealing as ever, and as distant as a dream. Artist of the week: Christopher Orr 2010-05-19T11:15:00Z This opera should leave you burnt to a frazzle; horrified by man's immorality and greed, flabbergasted by the intricate layers of plot and character, above all bewitched by the music's sublime invention. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z For romantic sensibilities screaming for the sublime, the metaphysical pondering of the deep — no. The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z And although winter remains the most popular season, according to Ben Dodge, executive director of the association, summer is a sublime time for a hut trip. An equally great way to hit Colorado’s slopes: Without the snow. Here’s how. 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Abraham’s chock-full phrases — most lucid as interpreted by him and the sublime Tamisha Guy — unfurl like firing synapses. Kyle Abraham Debuts ‘The Watershed’ at New York Live Arts 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In an age overrun by hyperbole, it seems preposterous to call pictures of flowers sublime. Take a walk through the imaginary garden of Anna Zemánková 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z That sublime second-season closer saw president Bartlet reconsidering a second term while mourning his secretary, handling a crisis in Haiti and preparing for a tropical storm. When good TV goes bad: how The West Wing went south 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z “She is an amazing mixer,” said Todd Piskin, the associate company manager for “Beautiful. “We need the sound sublime.” A Sound Engineer, a Props Guy and Their ‘Beautiful’ Wedding 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The martini is sublime, and distinctly different from gin versions. The Belgian festival where the fountains flow with gin 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Voltaire's view was that the deity – remote, and sublime – simply doesn't care. There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:05Z There are sublime, ecstatic moments, such as when her voice keeps climbing, improbably higher and higher, on “You Don’t Know What Love Is.” Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Thinking expansively would help us realize that nature’s true wonders aren’t limited to a remote wilderness or other sublime landscape — what Yong calls “otherworldly magnificence.” ‘An Immense World’ Is a Thrilling Tour of Nonhuman Perception 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z People read Russian novels not for the happy endings, she added, but “because there is great catharsis in great pain and then something that is sublime.” Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Appearing alongside Jack Lemmon and – less happily – a difficult Marilyn Monroe, Curtis enjoyed three sublime manifestations in the film. Tony Curtis obituary 2010-09-30T13:06:00Z It’s sublime even as it — because it — skirts too-muchness, even tackiness. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z In his prime, Maradona could flit past defenders with sublime ease, but now, at forty-one, he was overweight, with bad knees and bad ankles, and had been fighting drug addiction for nearly two decades. The Tragedy of Diego Maradona, One of Soccer’s Greatest Stars 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z If you do this one right, it’s sublime. Say It With Carbonara 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z And then, at the height of his fame, he started answering to a voice more sublime than his own. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone Stuart’s aching empathy and sublime images really got their hooks in me like an ancestral tug. John Cameron Mitchell Finds Joy in Mavis Staples and ‘Veneno’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z And at its best, the experience of playing in a quartet can be sublime. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Rather than taking us to the sublime, this performance asked us to ponder the music. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z With sublime assurance, “Reservoir 13” reimagined how a novel could be told. Review | ‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Dirt, the new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, takes us on a fascinating tour through the grimy sublime to illustrate the ways in which we use filth to construct our worlds, social systems and hierarchies. Dishing the dirt 2011-03-18T15:59:52Z Teodor Currentzis conducted the orchestra and chorus of the Opéra National de Lyon, the chorus being especially notable in a sublime Tchaikovsky liturgical hymn added by Mr. Sellars near the end. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z So, too, the sight of the United States Navy in San Francisco Bay between 1942 and 1945, its fleets assembled for war in the sublime and treacherous Pacific. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z All that mattered to his employers was his packet of sublime medieval illuminations, delivered on time. The Comic Strip’s Heyday in ‘Cartoon County’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Three went to No. 1, including this sublime ballad. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z And in Brown’s sublime and supple channeling, we hear Shange with exquisite clarity. Review: ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, Leading With Joy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But the resulting anthology spans an entire spectrum from sublime to tacky. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z Minimalism is sublime only if it is pristine. In Bed-Stuy, a New Store Is Like a Petting Zoo for Clothes 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The sublime silliness of Monty Python has always had an intellectual underpinning; not many comedy troupes have sung about Heidegger and Descartes or joked about summarizing Proust. Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The sculptures on this floor intensify the involvement with painting and also ascend to what might be called the trompe l’oeil sublime. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He also offers another familiar work, but in an unfamiliar guise: a solo piano arrangement of the sublime Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:00:40Z There’s little about his art I would call sublime, yet I think of him as angelic. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z British influences can be heard: there are hints of the Faces' or the Rolling Stones' swagger in Laurie Sherman's classic-rock guitar licks, and sublime opener Things Will Change dips into 1980s winsome indie. Treetop Flyers: The Mountain Moves – review 2013-04-25T20:30:02Z The Symphony launches March with Mozart, and violinist/conductor Thomas Zehetmair will be heard in the sublime Violin Concerto No. 3. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z He always made the effort to provide sublime silliness. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Though a slight piece, its untroubled tenderness touched the sublime, with exhilarating results. Murray Perahia – review 2012-06-08T17:05:08Z She is a transcendent ballerina, capable of reaching the sublime, but her inner torment and aspirations drive her in compelling, unforeseeable ways. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z There’s a connection, in Book 6, between the desire to get beyond the rules and patterns of social life—to get “outside,” to the sublime—and Nazism. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z For it was in this bay that Muir unexpectedly encountered “a picture of icy wilderness unspeakably pure and sublime.” A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Duck over to Vancouver Island and Victoria, the sublime, amenity-rich provincial capital. 2010-02-03T21:30:00Z There’s room to park, and a restaurant, the Golden Eagle, and the sublime view over the northern Berkshires that appears in so many vintage Mohawk Trail postcards. Journeys: Driving the Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts 2012-10-04T16:29:55Z The logic goes like this: women became groupies because what else could they possibly do to mediate or amplify the sublime experience of reacting to these songs? Reconsidering the Rock Groupie 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z There’s a sublime bravado in releasing the film this week, as the Academy wraps up its Oscars voting. Review: “Birds of Passage,” the Tragic Story of an Indigenous Colombian Family’s Involvement in the Drug War 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The heel had a bulbous, sculptured Brancusi quality, which was wholly dysfunctional and sublime. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z The “contrast between the sublime and the profane,” he said, would evoke “humanity’s ugly nature, its capacity to reduce life to rubble.” In a Former Mafia Stronghold, Art Remembers, and Warns 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z In this sublime hoax, Mills argued, the designer was central. How “Good Design” Failed Us 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Forever we shoot for the sublime,” she advises. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But the concept didn’t carry through the third act, when sublime music was accompanied by what often felt like movement for its own sake. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Is acting a sublime feat of self-transformation, or just a fancy kind of lying? ‘Official Competition’ Review: Madness in Their Methods 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Getting into the Snowpine remains effortful — a long flight of stairs down from the road or an arm-noodling rope tow up from the resort base — but, once you’re there, the layout is cozy and sublime. Five lodges make Utah’s Alta Resort a winning ski destination 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Or live la bonne vie in France, with a motorcycle trip in the country's rugged southwest, home to some of Europe's most sublime riding terrain. Amazing Motorcycle Trips 2010-12-02T20:35:00Z You go to incredible lengths to ensure the seasoning is spot-on – a branch of fennel, an extra pistil of saffron; that the balance of ingredients is right, the stock sublime. TV commissioning is just a bad joke 2013-06-30T17:30:01Z The nominating committee went with "Boyhood," "Birdman," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Love Is Strange" and the stark, sublime sci-fi thriller "Under the Skin." Gotham Awards' 'Foxcatcher' conundrum: 'It was a struggle' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The seeds waft upward, forming a leaping lion and stoking sublime thoughts of cosmic connection. Picture Books That Show the World Through a Child’s Eyes 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Balke, who led something of a charmed existence, came to paint the natural sublime of coastal Norway, a region then struggling to achieve independence and national identity. Wild Waves and Quiet Streets: 2 Artists Working From Memory 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z These girls are Huck Finns in Gap jeans and tank tops and ponytails, exploring an America both grimy and sublime, a country where, to survive, violence must be treated with nonchalance. The Lovely, Menacing Girls of Justine Kurland 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z While Ms. July’s palette is rougher and plainer than Mr. Malick’s, both seek out routes from the everyday to the sublime, and challenge audiences to follow them. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z As a soloist, meanwhile, he acknowledges Bach’s six Cello Suites as his cornerstone: sublime works which fill him with a mixture of fascination, awe and fear. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z We see Holiday as a heroin user, a devoted but not always reliable friend, an operatic figure of towering pain and sublime resilience. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z By the mid-1970s, married and with children, I was an editor in New York City who vacationed in the summer at Newport, Rhode Island, where metaphors for the sublime were not hard to come by. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z But it’s a hidden craft, practiced by artists who make every frame look sublime by toiling for long hours — while remaining invisible. Hollywood’s secret beauty trick: The special effects facelift 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The flavor of meat, spice rub and smoke is sublime. 11 mistakes novice grillers make — and how to correct them 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z In every case, Balth strikes a fine balance between the playful and sublime. 'Videowatercolors' play with time and space 2011-11-02T21:05:05Z ‘FALSTAFF’ Riccardo Muti, the king of Verdi, reigned anew as he led his Chicago Symphony Orchestra in sublime concert performances of that composer’s great final comedy in April. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But 18th-century travellers, schooled by the Enlightenment idea of the sublime to find wonder and power in sights that shock the soul, fed on the horror of the volcanic eruption. Explosive art: my top five volcano paintings 2010-04-21T14:02:00Z Even better are the joyfully unrestrained Monsters of Sunderland and the sublime, mariachi-flecked Radio Goddard. British Sea Power: Machineries of Joy – review 2013-03-31T00:05:15Z These sublime drawings just gave me such a lift in this gloomy day! Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The plot of The Secret Life of Pets is manic and messy, but its visual grace notes are sublime. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Tells Us What They Do When We’re Out 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Well, there you have it, although sublime may not be the word that first comes to mind. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z For some Americans, however — like the four teenagers on an Oklahoma reservation in FX’s sublime coming-of-age comedy “Reservation Dogs” — the idea of home, whom it belongs to and who belongs to it, is more complicated. The Remarkable ‘Reservation Dogs’ Runs Away Toward Home 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z “The spirit of this night was very sublime.” Chopin’s Heart, Pickled in a Jar, Offers Clues to His Death 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Everything he trains his camera on, from outer space to a folded piece of paper, he bestows with sublime beauty and everyday intimacy. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z They include the early struggles to protect the sublime wonders of Yellowstone and Yosemite, and the slower recognition that the quieter beauties of the Everglades and Congaree were also worth preserving. 10 Months, 45 National Parks, 11 Rules 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z She longs for her home in rural Jutland, a rustic landscape of sold-off farms, aggressive drivers, rye fields and what’s left of Denmark’s natural sublime. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z For what exactly were those sublime yet utterly bizarre sequences of digital resurrection if not a CGI-assisted alternative to chopping in the best bits from Hollywood history? Rise of the apes: how Rogue One's strange birth lays bare Hollywood's imagination drought 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z A common idea about the art is that the music transforms banal words and unbelievable situations into sublime emotion: that it’s purely about performance. Theater Review: ‘I Am an Opera,’ by Joseph Keckler 2013-04-25T00:14:49Z Two of the most gorgeous examples that come to mind for me are Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” and Rita Dove’s “Thomas and Beulah,” both of which elevate the ordinary to the sublime. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Don’t be scared off by the three-hour runtime, which lately has seemed to be the exclusive province of bloated epics: Here, it is sublime. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Not from the sublime to the ridiculous, perhaps, but sublimely ridiculous, and surely appealing to all brows, no matter their altitude. ‘American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny,’ by Christopher Miller 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z History and the present, politics and poetry, the sublime and the ridiculous can now be digitally compressed into clever memes. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It always seemed like exactly the wrong moment to abandon my Hudson Valley, N.Y., flowers and vegetables to the woodchucks, chipmunks and weeds to see someone else’s plantings, however sublime. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The hallmark of her recipes is simplicity at its best — no need to gratuitously fuss about — and the results are sublime. Marcella Hazan's tomato sauce recipe — and 8 other favorites 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z This is one of the most instant tracks: a simple, sublime, joyous tune from Mike Scott's top drawer. F&M playlist 2011-08-25T20:30:00Z The only other objects in the room are four long microphones pointed at the sculpture, which produce sonic feedback from the brass instrument, soft, sustained and sublime. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Garrick Ohlsson joins the quartet for Beach’s Piano Quintet in F sharp minor on a sublime recent release on the Hyperion label, easily the most prestigious recording of her music to date. For a Trailblazing Female Composer, a Prestigious Recording 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z While this is an exciting Zauberflöte, it's also notably short of sublime moments. Die Zauberflöte – review 2013-04-17T13:36:34Z Land of CanAan's best moments are the most straightforward: the simpler, driven Try My Best, which combines dramatic strings and tinkling piano, the ethereally beautiful Find Your Way Back or sublime instrumental Repetition. Marques Toliver: Land of CanAan – review 2013-05-16T21:20:01Z The rules of visual coherence are tested and ultimately upheld, while the laws of physics are flouted with sublime bravado. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Our job is to develop each product until it becomes sublime.” Cultured Traveler: In Paris, Where Artisanship Becomes Art 2012-10-12T20:04:36Z The sublime cruelty of the scene is as noble and refined as it is quietly terrifying. Amber Heard and the Artistic Problem with Contractual Nudity 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z These scenes of life carrying on, despite the recent history visited upon the country, convey a spirit of renewal, which draws some of its strength from the sublime beauty of the Bosnian landscape. Boundaries and Renewal in Bosnia 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z One set of landscapes shows the sublime, such as Joseph Mallord William Turner’s etching of the Scottish Highlands with roiling thunderclouds. ‘Extreme Nature!’ Review: Horror and Beauty in the World Around Us 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Such pieces may be technically tough to sing, but with their unexpected harmonic turns and melodies they’re sublime to the ear. Celebrate choral Britten with Esoterics, Seattle Pro Musica 2013-12-05T20:41:59Z The resulting mayhem is instantaneous and sublime; it’s also the movie’s most ecstatic and tightly packed symbolic moment, the one that illuminated the entire viewing experience, retroactively and through the rest of the action. Wonder Woman Review: Patty Jenkins's Hard-Won Wisdom 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Lemoine is clearly aiming for the sublime, but his machinations are too bombastic and calculatedly stylised to appear remotely cathartic. Woodkid – review 2013-05-15T17:27:39Z A sparkling, sublime footwear choice is the most expedient way to demonstrate taste. How to Think About Curiously Unfashionable Footwear 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z When the effects pedals prove too much, sublime standout Run from the Gun offers a different flavour in skewed, La's-esque minimalist pop. Dead Confederate: Sugar 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z Toasted rice gelato rewards diners with its delicate nutty flavor and pleasantly chewy texture, but tiramisu is also sublime. Review | Little Pearl is the easiest route yet to Aaron Silverman’s whimsical food 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z What matters most with this sublime Wagner masterpiece is the musical performance. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z The effect of is claustrophobic, but also strangely serene, even sublime. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z And “Le Quattro Volte” by Michelangelo Frammartino turns its crazily sublime views of the Italian countryside into an animist tour de force. Critic?s Notebook: A Film Festival With a Penchant for Making Tastes, Not Deals 2010-09-23T22:17:00Z The story of a princess in ancient Scotland who hopes to shake off tradition and choose her own fate, it's a lushly colorful and appealing tale, never quite sublime but always entertaining and often delightful. 'Brave': Pixar's latest is lovable and endearing 2012-06-20T22:25:06Z He has brought with him Kant’s “Critique of Judgment” so that Koons could read a passage from it about the sublime. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z Sublimely silly, and sometimes simply sublime, "The French Project: The New New Wave" is an evening of chansons with a difference. Parlez vous Dire Straits? Seattle's 'The French Project' does, in a silly, sublime new show 2010-09-17T16:58:00Z This is obsessive devotion channelled into an outsider art that knowingly echoes all its influences, both kitsch and sublime. Images from the outer limits 2013-06-01T23:05:40Z A sublime pyrotechnic display, it destroyed the medieval Palace of Westminster, home to Parliament for eight centuries, and marked the end of an age. The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton – review 2012-10-05T21:55:06Z Along with a Messiaen and bird-song theme in this summer’s programming, the festival is also focusing on Schubert, whose sublime music I adore. Music Review: Rudolf Buchbinder at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-15T22:36:11Z Each episode of the podcast revolves around a theme that informs the show’s stories “from the seedy to the sublime.” Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z But Stevens, as Carter wrote in the new work’s score, was “concerned that what Americans consider ‘sublime’ lacks spirit.” Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Ruins can be more evocative than actual working buildings, and some architects have tried to bring the sublime quality of vine-covered abandonment into their designs. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Their voices are so harmonious that at several points I had the impression of two master violinists lifting each other to sublime heights without being aware of anything but the music. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z And she describes Beethoven’s music vibrantly, as in her acute phrases on the sublime slow movement of the Op. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The buzz: "A cosmic funk ride – sublime and psychedelic" – Sound Colour Vibration. New band of the day: Naytronix (No 1,363) 2012-10-02T16:23:25Z But the Blox TV, a media company with an online channel and companion website, doesn’t shy away from capturing the sordid bits along with the sublime. The Rebranding of the Bronx 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The interracial, intergenerational choir is in sublime voice — individually and collectively. Review: 'Black Nativity' raises the roof at new venue 2010-12-14T23:01:05Z The trail passed through a narrow canyon, which opened up into a landscape so sublime — and so different from the Ghangaria side of the slot — that I felt like I’d been transported to another world. In the Himalayas, Journeys of Faith and Flowers 2013-05-31T18:19:51Z That said, lavender can be sublime when applied appropriately. The easiest vodka lemonade, plus a fun little party trick 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Then he called out, “Hip, hip, hooray,” and 4,000 people raised their headgear into the air, creating a moment of sublime choreographic synchronicity. Choreographed Formality, Like an Elaborate Masque 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z With a face of sublime innocence and frankness, the woman gazes at her boyfriend in what, for me, has few rivals as a portrayal of true love. This Valentine's Day: art with a heart 2013-02-14T12:17:47Z What these two aren’t, and were never expected to be, are sublime dancers. Review: Musical Triplets: 'The Band Wagon' Times Three 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Never has human extinction seemed so richly merited, and rarely has digital ingenuity been put to such sublime use. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Rainere — much like Ghislaine Maxwell, another bizarrely enigmatic figure accused of sex trafficking — has the sublime appeal of an internet meme, which is how he has been cast since “The Vow” premiered last month. Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, Bible roots out the sublime pleasures available at the searing edge of depressed feeling. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Caught between the earth and the heavens, between “the sublime and the filth of creation,” the moon is, Alharthi writes, “the treasure house for what is on high and what lies below.” The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z That small phrase represented the strong connection between us and also between us and this sublime place, whose mystique I will never fully understand. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The second, ungainly duo disrupts the harmony established by the first, illuminating just how sublime that harmony was. Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Converging in the appropriately vintage surrounds of the Bloomsbury Ballroom, the Anarcho-Dandys will have a sublime selection of entertainment at their perfectly manicured fingertips. This week's new clubs 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z At London's Tate Modern anyone can walk in off the street and contemplate, for free, Picasso's great painting Three Dancers or Matisse's sublime cut-out The Snail. Locking our Picasso away 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z It’s an interpretation of sublime balance and articulation, the meaning of its finale — its nod to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — elevated by a clearly presented reference to “the promised land.” A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z In their rush to take in the larger, louder aspects of the show, attendees might miss some of the more sublime touches, like a tiny hologram of Ant-Man running around a desktop. MoPOP’s ‘MARVEL: Universe of Super Heroes’ is super fun for comics nerds and novices alike 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z But I don’t, because the less I taste the corn, the less I like the sauce, and this is no time for something less than sublime. A pasta dish that will change how you cook sweet summer corn 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Protected by a fertile reef, the sea here is calm and the snorkeling, sublime. The Caribbean ?roundup: In the Caribbean, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-11T19:50:00Z Many pieces use nothing but masterful paper-cutting craft — to sublime effect. ‘Cut Up/Cut Out’ surprises with art on the edge 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Likewise, Gilda, who has been long presumed dead in a sack at the end of Rigoletto, only to revive herself for a sublime duet with her father before giving up the ghost. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z Ms. Zink’s voice is naturally satirical and subversive; she can’t help seeing that her characters are comic and sublime at the same time. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Instead what matters here is the delicacy with which Hansen-Love puts those events into play with modest moments, how she reveals the sublime in the in-between spaces of ordinary existence. ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Ouimette, with a beseeching or befuddled look in his huge eyes, is sublime as the duped Andrew. Critic?s Notebook: Brian Dennehy at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2011-09-03T00:09:21Z Part of the debate surrounding her is that she is less sleek, less aloof, less unknowable than several of the sublime dancers who were shaped by Balanchine. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The irruption of the divine into ordinary life — sometimes sublime, sometimes violent, sometimes absurd — has preoccupied this director for much of his career. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The totality looks fabulous, at once sublime and ridiculous, and, like the efforts of many young painters, brings the medium into three dimensions and closer to the decorative arts. Art Review: Two Shows Offer a New Look at Julian Schnabel 2014-04-25T20:17:33Z |
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