transcendence
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So with Spielberg once again looking skyward, we decided to revisit the director’s long cinematic relationship with aliens, as figures of astonishment, terror, transcendence and, occasionally, giant crystal skulls from another dimension.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Many fans have moved on as well, some perhaps deciding there’s more musical transcendence and power in one Beethoven sonata than in the entire rock catalog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
As the juke joint crowd responds, he loses himself in the timeless transcendence artists hope for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
“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
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
Vocabulary lists containing transcendence
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