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
“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
Yet it was during this meander that his writing made a steep drop into seeing, feeling, connecting, plunging toward transcendence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 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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