(a.) Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.
Example Sentences:
(1) To lose the Sundarbans would be to move a step closer to the extinction of these majestic animals," said ZSL tiger expert Sarah Christie.
(2) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
(3) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
(4) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(5) His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic Perhaps he was lucky.
(6) Retail sales for the 10 weeks to 4 January at shops open a year or more were up more than 7% and total sales across the business rose 12%, Majestic said in a trading update.
(7) What an incredible contrast between the passionate compassion so emotively expressed in Britain and the ruthless bloodlust in Japan, where tens of thousands of dolphins are killed with spears on beaches every year and where crowds cheer the departure of a huge mechanised fleet whose objective is the mass slaughter of these majestic mammals in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
(8) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
(9) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(10) Or dream of a Wales where the majestic crane breeds for the first time in 400 years.
(11) They were each charged with one count of lese majeste linked to the play, which marked the 40th anniversary of a pro-democracy student protest at the university that was crushed by the military regime in October 1973.
(12) Majestic appointed Gormley when it bought his Naked Wines online business two months ago.
(13) The sky was blue and crisp and Aden’s volcanic hills sat majestically over the water.
(14) Majestic Wine has scrapped its minimum six-bottle purchase as new chief executive Rowan Gormley seeks to lure back customers to the ailing chain.
(15) I come across all features of rural life – from getting stuck behind a tractor to having herds of deer majestically leap across the road in front of me.
(16) Majestic has got a very compelling proposition driven by customer service but we’ve got to compete on price.” Majestic’s house broker, Investec, cut its estimates for pre-tax profits by 6% to £23m in the year to 31 March and by 8% for the following year.
(17) It’s a magical landscape, then suddenly the Indian Ocean opens up, and nestled between majestic cliffs is Coffee Bay.
(18) Demand has just skyrocketed in the past few months,” McCullough says, adding that in a Majestic Wine store in Guildford his firm’s gin accounted for one third of all spirits sales recently.
(19) The hearing was attended by five members of his victim's family, who, with majestic magnanimity, were there to petition for his death sentence to be commuted.
(20) Gormley said it would take three years to revive Majestic.
Sublime
Definition:
(superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
(superl.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.
(superl.) Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.
(superl.) Elevated by joy; elate.
(superl.) Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
(n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article
(n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
(n.) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
(v. t.) To raise on high.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.
(v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
(v. t.) To dignify; to ennoble.
(v. i.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(2) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
(3) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(4) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(5) Described herein is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, reproducible, and safe procedure using Peldri II, a proprietary fluorocarbon compound that is solid at room temperature and a liquid above 25 degrees C, as a sublimation dehydrant for processing specimens for SEM.
(6) Sublicons are threadlike structures appearing during sublimation of frozen solutions of small concentrations, containing racemate mixture of amino acids and nucleotides.
(7) It is possible that the sublimation may have potentiated the toxicity of the usually mildly toxic, relatively unsoluble As2O3.
(8) Purification of dithiothreitol from possible endotoxin contamination by vacuum sublimation or chromatography does not abolish the reaction with lysate.
(9) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(10) Both solution and sublimation techniques were satisfactory for producing coatings of stearic acid.
(11) A truly terrible game hit almost ridiculous lows before being rescued by Jermain Defoe’s sublimely brilliant volleyed winner.
(12) It is shown that sublimation at -100 degrees of erythrocyte membrane suspensions (that had been incubated at pH 5.5 to cause aggregation of the membrane particles) results in progressive and selective sinking of the membrane regions comprised of aggregates of intercalated particles, i.e., that sublimation of water molecules occurs preferentially across these membrane regions.
(13) As ever, the former Liverpool forward’s touch and awareness was sublime, killing the ball dead before looping the ball over Courtois.
(14) The distribution of the perikarya of astrocytes and other glial cells in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus has been studied in gold chloride-sublimate preparations of rats and of normal and reeler mice, and in plastic embedded material from young adult rats.
(15) Mickelson's play was sublime – he drove the ball straight, he hit his iron shots with a scientist's accuracy and holed putts from all over the place.
(16) It was established that high temperatures of oil sublimation increased the benzopyrene contents and the oil products' blastomogenic activity.
(17) Top Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design a sublime new station, like the one in nearby Liège, but this costly project won’t be finished until late 2015 at the earliest, so many of the expected two million visitors will have to pick their way around a muddy construction site.
(18) However Murray is playing sublime tennis and he was always in control, never once looking back after he broke for a 2-1 lead in the first set when Dimitrov flashed a forehand wide and then dumped another into the net.
(19) The moral worldview of the devoted actor is dominated by what Edmund Burke referred to as “the sublime”: a need for the “delightful terror” of a sense of power, destiny, a giving over to the ineffable and unknown.
(20) The response of the astroglial population of the dentate gyrus molecular layer to removal of that region's primary afferent was investigated using Cajal's gold sublimate method.