Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transcendent Eagle
Louis Michel Eilshemius, scrag-bearded, self-styled Mahatma, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art, spent half a century painting in obscurity, writing letters of self-praise to editors, growing poorer, bitterer, more desperate. In 1932, when he was 68, fame and recognition came to the old man. Two...
That these trials of the most turbulent 18 months in the history of Great Britain did not keep Producer Gabriel Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard...
» Luther's "immanentism" (a God not transcendent but suffused through man and nature) drifted toward a neo-pagan pantheism.
For Frenchmen, the ultimate ideal of France is a transcendent thing. As this desperate week began, Paul Reynaud the Leader faced the Italian declaration of war with the sentence: "Nothing has lowered our will to struggle for our land and liberty." At the same time, Paul Reynaud the Frenchman said...