Word: transcendent
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...burger guy?’ I just didn’t know if that was how I wanted to be known.”Ehrlich has fought this encroachment of burger-as-identity. “Half my time here at Harvard has been spent trying to transcend this idea of me as a burger guy... I’m not just the burger guy.”He has become captain of the football team and has discovered a second academic life in philosophy. He segues from talking about burgers to talking about moral theory and Kantian second-order...
...based on the number of convictions made by the state’s drug task force—are indirectly responsible for the heroine’s conviction in “American Violet.” But Haney insists that “American Violet” will transcend its moral and political content. “One of the challenges of filmmaking in America is that generally, movies like ours get presented to the public as ‘important,’ and to the public it’s kind of like eating your vegetables...
...Inside the driest desert is the murmured dream of the sea, and under the Greek poetry that immortalizes sacrificial virgins we can find living girls full of rebellion, botched home-made tattoos, and too-short skirts.” To be sure, the play’s plasticized playthings transcend both time and space to tell a more universal human story...
...once again proven capable of amplifying the United Nations anti-racism contretemps as well as the plight of yet another privileged dual citizen of the U.S. and Iran to echo a fresh confirmation of the old accusations. Just as the real possibility of a U.S.-Iran rapprochement began to transcend the nuclear issue and seem no longer a mere fantasy with Washington’s change of atmosphere and Tehran’s continuous pragmatism, the opposing forces to dialogue in Washington and beyond have now found new grounds in Roxana Saberi’s arbitrary imprisonment and President Ahmadinejad?...
...group buys into the possibility that there are some values that are sacred in a group, then this serves as a consensus that helps the group cohere. There have to be some things which no one member of the group, no individual, can own outright. It has to transcend the mundane, it has to be something that goes beyond the earthly level, it has to almost become profound. It can be a book, it can be a temple, it can be a rock, it can be a tree. Every kind of culture or group has this...