Sublimated in example sentence

For several minutes no one broke this ominous pause in the conversation; Henry feeling a repugnance to his guest, that he was vainly endeavoring to conquer, and the stranger himself drawing forth occasional sighs and groans, that threatened a dissolution of the unequal connection between his sublimated soul and its ungainly tenement.

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Some of us may have been sublimated, but really none of us remained the same.

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 or giving a TED Talk, and it's really the neocortex that's where the action is.

And I have to understand that my needs sometimes have to be sublimated to other needs.

This was a crappy, miserably acted movie based on sublimated male fantasies.

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