Kathleen Rubins

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.

American Astronaut

Kenneth Oppel

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Canadian Author

Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Spanish Artist

Joanne Harris

I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.

British Author

Anohni

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

English Musician

Andrew W.K.

Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.

American Musician

Robert Richardson

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

American Director

Peter Steele

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Robert Hughes

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Australian Critic

Monica Bellucci

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Italian Actress

Used in scientific contexts to describe a physical change, often seen in chemistry.

Scientific Phenomenon

Sometimes used metaphorically in literature to describe a transformation that skips stages.

Literary Metaphor

Emphasizes skipping the liquid phase; not just any form of evaporation.

No Intermediate State

Used to describe the process of redirecting emotions into something positive or constructive.

Emotional Channeling

Often found in psychology, connected with transforming instinctive impulses.

Psychological Concept

Can refer to the transformation of negative energy into a creative or productive output.

Creative Transformation

Indicates a substance in its purest, most concentrated form, especially in chemistry.

Chemical Purity

Describes something that is the best possible version or in its most refined form.

Highest Excellence

Used in technical or professional settings to convey a sense of ultimate refinement or quality.

Technical Term

 video games actually allow us to become part of the machine. They allow us to sublimate into the culture of interactive, downloaded, streaming, HD reality. We are interacting with our entertainment. I have come to expect this level of interaction. Without it, the problems faced in the real world --

David Perry: Will...

 and that's where we do our thinking, and it's the great sublimator. We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations, but I may have a drive for conquest, and that'll be sublimated by the neocortex into writing a poem or inventing an app

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready...

 So the gases in the atmosphere were on a one-way trip to be oxidized and placed into minerals. So if you increase the amount of sunlight with mirrors, or whatever, you can sublimate, get more water vapor in the atmosphere, more rain. But what's going to happen?

Sending Humans to Mars:...

 mile of ice over the edge of the solar system which is kind of interesting it means that when New Horizons flies by Pluto and takes closer pictures we might see what we call sublimation scarps so huge cliffs left from where the ice has

Imagining Pluto PIPE...

 of options we could take asteroids and comets and send them hurtling into the Martian atmosphere and have them smash into the polar ice caps when you throw these asteroids and comets into these poles they'll cause them to sublimate

TIL: How to Transform...

 Yeah, we found that, of course, humor implicitly means there is a sublimation of upsetness, of outrage. And so as you see, for example, in our premier's example, he makes fun of himself.

How digital innovation...

 remained standing for the better part of a human lifetime. The temporary building is a triumph of modern industrial organization, a healthy sublimation of the urge to build,

Ben Katchor's comics of...

 at engrafting the gift of life at dusk. In my team, the lives of one or two of my colleagues were tainted by this experience. Some of us may have been sublimated,

Susan Lim: Transplant...

 it's one thing to build an ice instrument it's another thing to maintain it and use it throughout time the ice is always sublimating away into

Coolest Concert Ever?...

 as part of me being made in the image of God. And I have to understand that my needs sometimes have to be sublimated to other needs.

Sublimate