But the tingling sublimity which we feel in the Queen of the Night’s aria no longer reflects a yearning for order, but a sense of our littleness in the face of immensity.
None of it—the birth in France, the childhood in Poland interrupted by war, the art studies in Warsaw, the year in Berlin—seemed important beside the immensity of the self-imposed task.
Besides, Charles was not of those who go to the bottom of things; he shrank from the proofs, and his vague jealousy was lost in the immensity of his woe.
She also talks about the sheer immensity of the ocean, how we're learning more about its biology, and the species and ecosystems living on the seabed and up in the water column.
She had to show herself half an hour later, and she was sustained at table by the immensity of her desire that her father should not perceive that anything had happened.
But where the Ohio empties into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, The river is almost four miles wide, and you just feel the immensity of the Mississippi River.