transcendent

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Which is to say: it was never going to taste as transcendent as it does in memory.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

But Mr. Styles’s voice, while expressive in certain contexts, is incapable of conveying hedonism, and “Aperture” ends up feeling blandly uplifting rather than transcendent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

But the presentation and even the digressions make it all a story with layers, and atmosphere, and maybe even transcendent meaning about perception and justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“She would litigate those moments until they felt true to her, and then they were so transcendent when she did them,” Foley says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

If his productions are merely almost transcendent, when the possibility of true transcendence exists somewhere nearby, waiting to be attained, then there is something else that must be done.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern