transcendence
Example Sentences
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The magic of this “Salome” is its transcendence of silliness into acceptance.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
As the juke joint crowd responds, he loses himself in the timeless transcendence artists hope for.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
“Summertime” has endured because it holds emotional resonance for us all: Who cannot identify with comfort, hope and transcendence?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Not for the power or for vindication, but because we, with the given circumstance of our origin, could only thus find transcendence?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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