transcendent

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The portrayal of that grief is where Mr. Armitage’s translation achieves its most transcendent power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The creators of some of the most transcendent and popular music ever made have largely fallen off the charts — or simply fallen.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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

Then there was movement and the borning once more of the transcendent fraternity that comes between athletes in the unseen moments when they move together toward the lights of an arena and the waiting crowd.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy