transcendence
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So with Spielberg once again looking skyward, we decided to revisit the director’s long cinematic relationship with aliens, as figures of astonishment, terror, transcendence and, occasionally, giant crystal skulls from another dimension.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 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
Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
In “Gethsemane,” the path of suffering becomes clear, and Erivo’s transcendence was all the more worshipped by the audience for being painfully achieved.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
For the jockey, the saddle was a place of unparalleled exhilaration, of transcendence.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing transcendence
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