Word: transcendence
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...think about theater, because when you have a wheelchair there are so many more possibilities in terms of how you can move around on stage,” Miller says. Each of the actors in the project is disabled, and Miller claims that their ability to transcend the audience’s preconceived notions can be transformative. “Working with people with disabilities is a very powerful experience for the audience because the audience goes in, they know everyone in the cast has a disability, and they try to figure out what everyone has...and then 5 minutes...
...This vein of culture—and the implications of identification and assimilation that it carries—run throughout “Fortune Cookie.” The novel also is able to transcend merely one culture, as Lee relates the Jewish relationship to Chinese food and how the original General Tso’s chicken transformed, based on American tastes, into its well-known form today...
...region feature in campaign speeches, and there are few premium spots for southerners on the political parties' parliamentary-candidate lists. True commitment to solving the problems of the "Mezzogiorno" - as Italy's eight southernmost regions are known - is clearly not considered a vote getter. Yet for reasons that transcend geography, turning around the south ought to be Italy's most pressing national priority. Youth unemployment in the Mezzogiorno is a staggering 36%; and between 1991 and 2005, according to one recent study, the Interior Ministry dissolved 154 local city councils in the area because of Mob infiltration. These conditions have...
...often been argued that the appeal of watching great athletes compete is that they seem to manage, in their attainment of the ostensibly impossible, to transcend mortality. Perhaps the Masters' success in fostering its own glorious illusion of immortality helps to explain the tournament's enduring popularity. One thinks of the call of the on-course ranger before a golfer hits a shot. At Augusta, the request seems to be directed at the passage of time itself: "Stand still please...
...move forward or we fall backward, either we let the economy falter or we help it grow, either we succumb to our enemies or we defeat them - the choice is up to you, America! Obama's formulation was different. Explicitly asking Americans to grapple with racial divisions and then transcend them - that's a bolder, riskier request...