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

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

His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 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

We have a higher self, a capacity for transcendence.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander