transcendence

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“Maybe they’re not churchgoers, so they have this sense of community and transcendence, where that song touches them on this level, which takes them somewhere else,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

The series, now in its second season on Fox Nation, is the filmmaker’s effort to find relevance for everyday existence in human stories of sacrifice, heroism and faith that led to spiritual transcendence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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

This transcendence is one of the film’s greatest gifts, a chance to practice serenity and patience when there is little of either.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin