So if we have intimations of divinity and transcendence, how shall we express them?
But the difference is that they strive for emotional transcendence via the voice, body and music.
Kahn, a master at constructing transcendence at such landmarks as the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
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It understands that people want transcendence and hope, especially during a difficult period.
Innovation is a kind of transcendence for Americans - it takes them, they are confident, to a better place.
Mr. Trintignant, a popular star of French films in the 1960s and '70s, achieves in his role a ruefully calm transcendence.
If a little transcendence had been applied to the window and the customs house, why not to the piano as well?
And perhaps the collector, in his own mind, was only asking for a similar transcendence of reality when he demanded more dignity.
It's not surprising that Van Gogh found transcendence in a "blade of grass" an image he perhaps borrowed from the Calvinist critic Thomas Carlyle.
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"What really interests me in art is transcendence, " says Mr. Tepfer.
Hunt, who also wrote the script, directs a story of misery and transcendence with the kind of diligent efficiency to be expected from an experienced studio toiler.
There are slow passages, and sequences that lean too hard on self-pity, but there are many more moments of crazy transcendence, plus a fart joke or two.
Yet everyone understood this modest transcendence of reality.
In the end, it was on the moors of Galloway, her birthplace, and in the spirit of the Romantic poets that Ms Maitland was able to unite transcendence with a heightened rather than a diminished sense of individuality.
Of course this is merely my own opinion, but what deeply saddens me about nostalgia is that so few of us ever see through her glittering lure of earthly associations, and so we miss the longing for self-transcendence she is really trying to evoke.
The boys who remained in his classes were often caught up in his love of art, music, and literature, and in his belief that every moment of life should be spent reaching for the transcendence of the Elgin Marbles, of a fresco by Fra Angelico, even of an ordinary sunset.
We want a nudge toward happiness, a little magic to open the pressure valve of everyday life -- the sublime thrill of transcendence to be found in a Mendelssohn symphony or a Turner landscape, in a perfect kiss or perfect morning jog, in time spent with our families and friends.
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