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"transcendent" Definitions
  1. going beyond the usual limits; extremely great
"transcendent" Synonyms
supernatural preternatural transcendental unearthly magical superhuman paranormal metaphysical uncanny mystical otherworldly phenomenal supernormal spiritual miraculous mystic ethereal heavenly sublime numinous supreme unparalleled incomparable unrivalled(UK) matchless peerless unsurpassed unmatched unequalled(UK) paramount consummate unrivaled(US) unequaled(US) superior superlative perfect ultimate unique surpassing great theoretical hypothetical intellectual philosophical academic speculative notional conjectural suppositional ideational impractical theoretic imaginary presumed assumed unsubstantiated vague on paper powerful dominant effective formidable assertive authoritative demonstrative domineering imperious imposing leading prominent regnant reigning impressive able capable immaterial incorporeal bodiless insubstantial formless nonmaterial intangible unbodied unworldly nonphysical unsubstantial psychic discarnate airy godly godlike prodigious exceptional extraordinary herculean omnipotent heroic immense staggering stupendous Herculean bionic remarkable beyond human holy divine blessed celestial angelic sacred beatific seraphic empyrean blest deific saintly deiform goddesslike resplendent brilliant dazzling glittering glorious radiant splendid beaming bright effulgent gleaming glowing irradiant luminous lustrous refulgent shining blazing flaming glossy ideal unreal visionary fanciful fantastic fictitious romantic unattainable fabulous mythical fairy-tale impracticable ivory-towered quixotic unachievable unfeasible More

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Like, to feel connection somehow and have some transcendent experience.
Ray had arrived: not transcendent, but more than good enough.
Sometimes, they'll jeopardize their safety in pursuit of transcendent footage.
We need people helping other people become their transcendent selves.
But for $138 I expect something a little more transcendent.
That vision expressed an inner transcendent meaning to the Constitution.
Bits of Mozart's own transcendent Requiem played in my head.
Will there be a transcendent beer made in your name?
It was his second trip, though, that proved almost transcendent.
Transcendent force, it turns out, can live on earth, too.
I cleanse, tone, and moisturize with the Be Transcendent line.
Steph Curry is now among the game's most transcendent players.
I did, and it was a transcendent experience for me.
But good Lord, when The Get Down works, it's transcendent.
That artist, that song, that hall — it was a transcendent experience.
That was one of those transcendent moments where the planets aligned.
It is a transcendent circle that just seems to grow stronger.
There, he's virtuosic, fun, natural, beautiful, a little arrogant, and transcendent.
Transcendent perfect understanding, as a goal, is out of the question.
Beyond the earthen materiality of the work, there's a transcendent magic.
In every movie, multiple supporting characters repeatedly cite Seagal's transcendent brilliance.
But during both of those shows, those transcendent moments were fleeting.
The Federer of Wallace's essay can be a transcendent player forever.
I'd be lying if I said it was a transcendent night.
Sex is half transcendent, and half dirty and a bit disgusting.
If we do, we disregard the humanity that made him transcendent.
Kahlo was a person, after all, not just a transcendent image.
The transcendent idea says there's something beyond that in another realm.
Just the mention of Aretha Franklin's name conjured transcendent sonic fury.
I understand well the ways it can be inscrutable and transcendent.
Embracing tearful supporters, O'Rourke described his campaign as a "transcendent" experience.
Good D.J.s are extraordinary artists, and great D.J.s are transcendent magicians.
"But for sure, it's, for me, the most transcendent," he said.
DeAndre Jordan Stoudemire had transcendent offensive skills but was a limited defender.
Pay attention and you'll fall beneath its spell, lost in transcendent reverie.
Domming Moishe was not only empowering — in some ways, it was transcendent.
They came to San Francisco seeking something more — something significant, something transcendent.
During a concert, John and the crowd float from the transcendent music.
It can be transcendent, but it can be a total bummer, too.
The best of those games were transcendent, and still hold up today.
Metaphorically speaking, you see through the physically opaque to the metaphysically transcendent.
Whether that makes HYG's $1.2 billion "transcendent" I'll leave to the poets.
But I was walking, and we had this magical, quiet, transcendent moment.
The unreality of her work was perhaps pointing to something preternatural, transcendent.
But the costume doesn't wreck Dafoe's performance—instead it makes it transcendent.
These spirals, incrementally produced, differ from, say, a Platonic cube's transcendent idealism.
He's combining that with solid defense, punctuated by the occasional transcendent play.
Like Van Gogh, Soutine paints the farthest thing from a transcendent spirituality.
The theme that day was hope, transcendent hope and more immediate hope.
A transcendent feat of strength onstage is just another glassy token onscreen.
But for women alone, it can also be truly beautiful, almost transcendent.
Watching her on stage was like an out of body experience — entirely transcendent.
They are slyly, luminously transcendent, small forces of nature that stamp the mind.
Beyoncé's transcendent performance at the 2017 Grammy Awards had a lot going on.
And, like messy emotional states, this drama eventually rose into something nearly transcendent.
I am surrounded in all these ways by the transcendent fullness of life.
Much of the right believes unironically in the transcendent power of the market.
No longer entirely human, she's now also — in line, shape and projection — transcendent.
BRANTLEY The songs in "Girl," when I saw it in London, were transcendent.
The effect is mesmerizing, and maddening, and, if the mood is right, transcendent.
Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell are not only transcendent athletes, they're tremendous people.
Despite similarities in plot, however, there is nothing transcendent about Becker's gritty film.
Like those three transcendent athletes, Rapinoe forever altered society as we know it.
He's a global leader who would naturally seek out another transcendent figure: Mandela.
Transcendent There's no denying it: the Model 3 is is an impressive showing.
Given just a little bit better luck, I saw how transcendent it could be.
Each one acts as a portal between the earthly realm and the transcendent realm.
And like anything competitive, eSports requires some transcendent talent and a lot of dedication.
Both Curry and James are transcendent on the court, and exemplary citizens off it.
Some administration officials privately complain he's naïve, entitled, and unqualified for such transcendent challenges.
We encounter the transcendent, she says, in music, poetry, sex, love, nature — and religion.
Unity is sought in the common pursuit of transcendent purpose for the public good.
There's nothing beautiful or transcendent about that story, and you are not its author.
He thought income inequality was a transcendent message that cut across race and sex.
And there's some transcendent quality to life that separates it from matter, from chemistry?
Sometimes, as with Lincoln, the transcendent nature of the man being memorialized is apparent.
He seemed cooked in a way, a great player who would not be transcendent.
At some point that game stops being easy even for the most transcendent talents.
In the Japanese film, this final moment feels transcendent; in Rings, it feels unearned.
Humans are transcendent creatures who have spiritual experiences and instinctively appeal to supernatural powers.
I never thought I'd use the word exalted for Warhol, or transcendent, or sublime.
Shirazeh Houshiary's transcendent installation "Breath" (2003) also uses chanting to arouse feelings of meditation.
"Mission: Impossible — Fallout" was transcendent, as was "It Chapter Two's" final battle with Pennywise.
I use the Be Transcendent skincare line to cleanse, tone, and moisturize my face.
But none of them became a transcendent putter the way Spieth would decades later.
Something transcendent occurred that's truly rare when performers keep moving while in the altogether.
If you're serious about cooking with weed, here's a bunch of transcendent equipment to acquire.
Do you have any advice for clearing your mind and getting to that transcendent state?
What takes the series finale from good to transcendent, then, is its final four minutes.
But various forms of paganism seem to offer an attractive modern path to the transcendent.
But what makes this scene transcendent is the proud reclamation of the uncool, of obviousness.
It was an extraordinary speech, a rare example of transcendent statesmanship and progressive, inclusive oratory.
While the film's visuals are striking throughout, they become truly transcendent during the climactic competition.
Anderson Silva's UFC career has long been a showcase for the transcendent and the absurd.
Goodness exists as a transcendent moral category, a shining polestar pulling characters toward the light.
In fact, personal interest and self-transcendent purpose are the dual engines of intrinsic motivation.
But it remains almost unbearably tender and, like so much of Channel Orange, uniquely transcendent.
Just thinking about clouds, I guess, had turned a little transcendent, at least for me.
There is the UFC, with its transcendent stars like Georges St.Pierre, Ronda Rousey, and McGregor.
Her marriage to Robert Lowell in 1949 brought her both transcendent passion and abject disaster.
The noise of existence, though, can be transcendent, and it is here, too. Focus. Focus.
It felt like this incredibly magic, transcendent experience where we were all in the moment.
He has written a comprehensive, insightful and robust biography of a transcendent but neglected figure.
Where art thou, Dawn Wiener, the transcendent Divine, or arguably any character with a pulse?
You can count such transcendent wardrobe totems on one hand: the Sans-culottes, the Brownshirts.
Any attempts to create a transcendent masterpiece will not only fall short, but fail spectacularly.
Many investors had already grown wary of the transcendent visions of these young, unprofitable businesses.
A transcendent side that takes joy in bringing together disparate parts, in creation, in play.
It's the kind of earnest, transcendent love song that queer kids have craved for decades.
The pay at the bookstore was dismal, but everything else about the place was transcendent.
How a target of students' ire came to write a book about humanity's transcendent goodness.
It's the whole spectrum from the trivial to the transcendent, the sacred to the profane.
There is a deep sense of familiarity and accessibility that is raw, beautiful, and transcendent.
The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.
"We are spiritual and transcendent beings," he said in Issue #28 of The Red Hand Files.
When set to music, though, it goes from Adorable Baby Video to Transcendent Internet Baby Content.
The Aristotelian constraints heighten meaning and imbue every small event with a sort of transcendent weight.
They're like any other convenience food: a wan simulacrum, fine in a pinch but never transcendent.
One of the transcendent figures of the 20th century, Ali died on Friday at age 74.
She needed to get away from shock, and move into something more transcendent, and ultimately commercial.
Sarah Ruhl: Four Reincarnations engages illness, spirituality and the body in utterly direct and transcendent ways.
Fox is extremely fast, but he doesn't possess Wall's transcendent quickness and end-to-end speed.
The live arrangements never lack for satisfaction, each song transcendent and bizarre on its own virtue.
Doss' acts were "beyond heroic" and "transcendent", said Garfield, who previously played the superhero Spider-Man.
The quartet were never easy to read, despite the transcendent and artful simplicity of their music.
The Sharks were saved by a transcendent showing from goaltender Martin Jones, who made 25 saves.
For many liberals, some sort of transcendent principle seemed necessary for the moral integrity of society.
You know, Mariano, he was kind of at that sainthood level, like Derek, transcendent of baseball.
In this country, racially transcendent blacks are used as exemplars, direct foils to creeping black counterculture.
" It is, for her, an "explorative, meditative, moving, beautiful, transcendent experience that brings us all closer.
Rajanaka focuses on seeking the truth, and not something perfect or transcendent, like guru models do. 
There is no slow-motion liberation of laboratory frogs here, no transcendent flight of the bikes.
In an era when death seemed less patient, Ms. Sigourney became known for her transcendent elegies.
I had to relive those fleeting moments of union to see what made them so transcendent.
There may never be a more transcendent figure in hip-hop than the late Tupac Shakur.
But "Life" is far from an elegy; it's by turns mournful, searching and celebratory, even transcendent.
This five-cornered gesture is a post-revolution symbolic return to un-trampled, transcendent Mother Nature.
For example, us trying to find this transcendent place together is completely referenced within the lyrics.
Then came a transcendent third quarter on Sunday in which Curry looked positively Steph Curry-like.
Last fall, a work in progress showing there was spare, alive and nothing short of transcendent.
But fashion can only be transcendent if it reflects the world we're living in right now.
Critic's Notebook New York City Ballet returned to Lincoln Center with transcendent dances and exceptional dancers.
From the moment he entered the NBA, Bryant had a platform to become a transcendent star.
The Golden State Warriors built a magnificent jazz band around their transcendent point guard Stephen Curry.
Passover is for celebrating the transcendent, the mysterious, the eternal, not rehashing worn-out political debates.
Aretha Franklin will always be known for her transcendent voice and how that voice changed music.
There is talent and depth, size and skill, and the promise of a few transcendent players.
That is one of the reasons why this offseason has felt so bleak: It has been a reminder that even something like baseball—which so often feels transcendent—is a business, governed by the laws of business, mundane and unpleasant and actually not transcendent at all.
Are there transcendent, objective criteria for evaluating creative works, or are they all subjective and culturally specific?
To get as far as the Tigers have, you have to have players like that — transcendent players.
Some of us would like to believe art is transcendent, but it isn't and it never was.
And some people experience a kind of transcendent wonder that they're seeing something true about the universe.
Under Thibodeau, Towns and Butler ought to coalesce into some sort of hard-nosed transcendent basketball force.
But beyond that, the unique design of the Everyday Backpack feels somehow transcendent of time and context.
Appel, who died in 2006 at 85, seemed destined to have a respected but not transcendent career.
The challenge was to turn the performance into a transcendent, cinematic experience for the viewer, explains Anadol.
If ever there was a reminder of country music's transcendent power, it was Tuesday night's ACM Honors.
"I've always been interested in art that evokes the aura of something mystical or transcendent," Boyd says.
And of course Chewbacca Mom brought our fractured country together for a brief transcendent moment in May.
Culminating in a new track delivered directly to the camera, the entire set felt essential, even transcendent.
The images share a certain transcendent quality; precipitous height, rather than color or composition, is their strength.
Simmons is hailed by many as a transcendent talent, a point guard in a power forward's body.
When tripping, people have often described transcendent mythical states of consciousness and oneness with themselves and others.
I don't, I speak against a way of celebrating the ordinary form which is not properly transcendent.
The distinction between the beautiful and the sublime is the distinction between the intimate and the transcendent.
Gould's staggering genius has a transcendent impact on Wertheimer and the narrator, but ultimately undermines their identities.
"If I want to understand childbirth as a transcendent experience, I will reread 'Anna Karenina,' " she said.
"If I want to understand (and practice) folding as a transcendent experience, Marie Kondo is my girl."
Adnan's language summons transcendent experiences, like shibboleths the poet utters to cross a room without "thinking" it.
Artist Boyfriend stood over the table, pronouncing in transcendent tones what a singular moment that had been.
And when the song is beautifully or creatively rendered by a skilled performer, it can be transcendent.
This meant the Lakers, much to the ever-hopeful Bailey's chagrin, had the league's most transcendent star.
The songs were about love, freedom, altered perception, rebellion and possibilities that could be transcendent or apocalyptic.
The 2019 prize may go to a groundbreaking symphony, a confessional folk record or a transcendent mixtape.
This crisis is transcendent, which makes Trump's disastrous approach to dealing with it all the more transparent.
It's the most persuasive proof captured on film that the tools of exploitation can make transcendent art.
In speaking to the locals one can glean an almost transcendent, mystical link between tigers and humans.
"In this Time of Troubles God must call all to a new and transcendent unity," Tadi urges.
"They are unpredictable, oblique, and varied in their form and approach, transcendent without being heroic," he added.
The energy from the crashing waves, the people, and the artists made me feel light and transcendent.
She measured out small helpings of her transcendent voice, rather than showing it off all at once.
Burke described it as the closest thing to heaven on earth, a "transcendent experience," his family said.
It happens when one team is so obviously transcendent that sports become less provincial and more aesthetic.
The title character in "Gloria Bell" — played by a transcendent Julianne Moore — is a restless life force.
The interplay and tension between these truths turns Martyrs into a deeply disturbing but utterly transcendent work.
On one hand, I long for the passion one feels when we see objects that are transcendent.
The thing is, it's those inevitable three subpar bagels that makes that fourth perfect bite so transcendent.
You watched his handles get better every game, you witnessed near-transcendent passing and elite court vision.
The myth of a transcendent (white male) artist is undone by his deliberate and hyperbolic visibility as a performer; by replicating his representation, he not only objectifies himself, but also objectifies the transcendent subject as another replicable sign to be passively consumed in the system of commodity exchange.
Created in collaboration with her mystical muses, these works try to express a transcendent understanding of the universe.
Schneemann has radically foregrounded her own body in her work for decades, to transcendent, politically charged, barnstorming effect.
We're always looking for that ecstatic, transcendent moment, and neither of us really cares how you get there.
Canadian artist, Tim Hecker, shared a depressive and transcendent new track from his forthcoming LP, Love Streams today.
Is quality in the arts so transcendent that it can overcome all differences of era, culture, and happenstance?
It was not that Dahl's criteria were so transcendent; it's that he dared to propose criteria at all.
I just wanted to make experimental, abstract, esoteric, abstruse art, game-changing transcendent work of viscera, and frisson.
I think for her it was just practice for middle school boys, but for me it was transcendent.
A "supernatural" religion, from this angle, would mean that a transcendent power did address itself to our situation.
Pugh is simply transcendent in a dramatic role that is full of wonderfully dark humor and wry manipulation.
There's a warmth to our traditions and rituals that is fueled by love and contact with the transcendent.
I knew that liberalism is transcendent in the Bay Area, but I didn't realize groupthink was this lopsided.
He's happy, as if his good deeds toward Deirdre have helped him shed his karma and become transcendent.
Branson is betting that a suborbital flight will be a transcendent experience, if not a very long one.
In that turn-of-the-century era, there was even one transcendent player who never won a tournament.
That's more strange than a legitimate concern, but still worth noting, given how transcendent those groups have been.
In a way it's a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.
Without Brian Wilson, who remains oddly transcendent, they're a cruise ship variety show bundled up in toxic nostalgia.
"Humbled and in complete awe that we get to experience the most ancient and transcendent love that exists."
We'll lose the sense of shared loyalty to ideas bigger and more transcendent than our own short lives.
First: a sense of the transcendent, of an unseen moral order to the universe, often known as God.
Crane himself thinks there is no transcendent reality, but he knows there can be no proof of this.
In other words, Golden State is transcendent and unstoppable in the open court, but just pretty good otherwise.
While the classic recording of "Atlas" ends on that transcendent note, the opera returns its protagonist to earth.
Transcendent production design isn't just about getting surfaces right, any more than great acting is just memorizing words.
She was a volcanic presence, whose Vesuvian eruptions in the part had the transcendent conviction of Italian opera.
Vulnerability and sacrifice are your biggest turn-on, and you believe sex should be transcendent and without boundaries.
But I do also relate to the optimism: a hope for the transcendent power of making and images.
In between, however, there had been no transcendent figure, and the sport is hungry for its next one.
In between, however, there had been no transcendent figure, and the sport is hungry for its next one.
" Both allow for transcendent dancing — especially by Ms. Chien-Pott as Clytemnestra and Ms. O'Donnell in "Dark Meadow.
Because of his transcendent reputation for courage and patriotism, news of McCain's illness shocked Washington with rare force.
The albondigas enchipotladas —pork meatballs drenched in chipotle sauce—are dry and dull one meal, transcendent the next.
For Wideman, this means that transcendent racial harmony may permanently lie on the horizon, just beyond our reach.
Beyond the sexual and racial connotations here, Scott offers sublime and transcendent experiences in this body of work.
This is where there seemed to be an intuitive, almost transcendent interaction between the artist and her charges.
In the wake of Prince's death, many of us sought out ways to honor the transcendent music star.
Thank you to you and [cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki] for creating a transcendent cinematic experience for all of us.
Its pulsating rhythms shift from aggressive to hypnotic, dystopian to transcendent, a fitting soundtrack for the works on view.
Some small moments were transcendent, like for the young woman sitting in front of me who sobbed as Anderson .
If there is a transcendent moral absolute that exists outside the language games of humans ... where did it originate?
The little tale, it seems, was waiting for an angel: Capra as Clarence, transforming the ordinary into something transcendent.
As a musician, my goal is to make music that is transcendent and isn't specific of a certain time.
Even though Future Freshman had failed, Evan hadn't given up his dream of starting the next transcendent tech company.
And because the music sounded so transcendent it felt like it was our duty to submit to Sly's commands.
It was a mash-up of pizza and burger flavors, which, yes, sounds gross, but we promise, was transcendent.
"People use this word a lot, especially artists, but it really was a transcendent experience for me," she says.
One of the things that makes Night in the Woods so transcendent is how it tackles very real issues.
The painful part was that Rose could provide no transcendent play to rebut all that cheap and loaded criticism.
If they are also good, true, or real in transcendent, independent, "objective" ways, we have no way of knowing.
But one team: the Mariners, Angels, Cubs, Padres, Dodgers, Rangers, or Giants, will come home with a transcendent talent.
Lurking in these tender and erotic songs is the worry that love, even a transcendent love, is a retreat.
Tristan guides the ship, Mr. Trelinski said, to the "edge of night," to his own and Isolde's transcendent deaths.
Now, there are only a handful of transcendent lead players, plus several fading or not-quite-there-yet attractions.
This was part of "Transcendent Arts of Tibet and India," a series of free events presented by Arts Brookfield.
The intimate discoveries and daily bonds of marriage are at once thoroughly human, relatable, as well as spiritually transcendent.
Her story is certainly cracked open in the telling, so assured and so transcendent, it could win Chaucerian contests.
Other presidents haven't lived up to transcendent American values of human equality and respect for the rule of law.
Befitting his songs' use of sacred terminology and often transcendent tone, our tour was bookended by houses of faith.
Both young women attempt to put a pretty, pert face on a clan — and a government — of transcendent ugliness.
Finally, there are three forms of selfless, "transcendent" love, in which one's own needs and concerns are relatively diminished.
Kubrick finally decided against using narration, opting for the ambiguity that was enraging to some viewers, transcendent to others.
Then there's the singer Richie Havens, who, having been practically cornered into opening the show, delivered a transcendent set.
I know that the transcendent natural beauty of this region matches the majesty of any other place on earth.
And they demonstrated the transcendent curse of these tribal times: Americans' diminishing ability to hold two thoughts at once.
The transcendent world of the spirit is less overt in Albright's greatest paintings, but it is most certainly there.
He has won four this year, including the Australian Open, in what has been a less consistently transcendent campaign.
It's a perfect example of what I call 'transcendent design'—not made for older people, but ideal for them.
What we're exploring is stuff people have been dealing with for centuries: the mystical and transcendent powers of music.
Dreaming Lucid is expansive and transcendent, interlacing English and Spanish lyrics with themes of despair, escape, and self-reliance.
It's really honest in that the spectacular aspect of it is not framed as high art or something transcendent.
While stock music isn't exactly a transcendent sonic experience, the music on Music Sesame is exclusive to the service.
" And they offered another predictable encore, "Pur ti miro," the transcendent closing duet of Monteverdi's opera "L'Incoronazione di Poppea.
She explains why porn is more interesting when it's half transcendent, half dirty, and just a little bit disgusting.
Suspiria foregrounds that corporeality, mixing it with elements of the inexplicable, and the result is horrifying, maddening, transfixing, transcendent.
Yao Ming, who retired in 2011, was a transcendent star who cemented the NBA's place on the Chinese sporting landscape.
In the vein of our previous statements about tuna salad, a tuna melt can be truly transcendent if executed properly.
And that being made to last, to appear timeless and transcendent, is the barefaced intention of Tool's 2001 album Lateralus.
The conference hasn't made national news much this season because it doesn't boast a single great team or transcendent player.
But depending on the contents of Robert Mueller's report, that could well become a transcendent issue for the new Congress.
There is an underlying promise that if I buy the perfect thing, I will be rendered whole, transcendent, somehow immortal.
Is there, somewhere in the combination of midi samples and camera packs and modeled animals and song, a transcendent thing?
But when stuck at an airport with a five-hour delay, passing the time on Rainbow Road is almost transcendent.
There haven't been any transcendent pieces of work from VR that radically alter how audiences and artists approach the medium.
To enjoy it is to spend a transcendent evening apart from the material conditions of society, no matter how gruesome.
And that's the way it was with Prince, so consistently transcendent that he somehow became easy to take for granted.
Although some of the most transcendent rap openly embraces the blues, sometimes depression and hip-hop can seem at odds.
He left us with a transcendent body of work and, where so many others struggle, he crafted a final masterpiece.
Is Islam the transcendent verses of the Sufi mystic Bulleh Shah, who said, "I am free; my mind is free"?
You think everyone in their life experiences those sort of transcendent moments, or even what William James called "religious experiences"?
In "The Sun Still Burns Here," a musician and a choreographer moodily unite, but the result is far from transcendent.
From the inside, it purports to be a logically coherent account of a transcendent event that affects every human being.
Sondheim gave transcendent musical voice to monomaniacal rage, with a shivery riff on the Dies Irae of the Catholic mass.
How could it ever top the transcendent tediousness of an assistant wrestling coach trying to follow Robert's Rules of Order?
The architecture declines to fade into the background or get old … Happy birthday to one of modern architecture's transcendent achievements!
If we lose democracy, then we've lost something great, something of transcendent human value, and no one should want that.
Geometric abstractions by the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark will add a transcendent counterpoint to similar work by Europeans and Americans.
Over the three days, I did observe others having the kind of transcendent moments I had read so much about.
Whatever the domicile, the query is the same: the transcendent nature of human purpose, and how it will reveal itself.
Wirecutter recommends the transcendent softness of Cottonelle's Ultra Comfort Care, promising you'll use less of it because it works better.
The union of two transcendent stars is almost too much to comprehend, like Batman choosing Superman as his new sidekick.
But in fact Ringe's connection to the transcendent or mystical aspects of Beuys's belief system is more metaphorical than not.
There is no event that showcases Biles's strength and transcendent quality as a gymnast as much as the floor exercise.
You might tut-tut that we've highlighted three transcendent stars as examples, but all three were left off the team.
It also has moments of heart-swelling joy and beauty, thanks to Robbie Ryan's transcendent cinematography and the crew's raucous camaraderie.
O'Rourke's quest for his next favorite "transcendent moment," like someone looking for a fix, has gone from solipsistic to actively harmful.
Paired with Matsoukas's direction, as her camera sweeps over South LA's dusty days and inky blue nights, they can be transcendent.
Her Tiny Desk performance -- filled with her trademark transcendent vocals and exclamations about self-love and perseverance -- once again shows why.
Pitched as "the intelligent interface for everything," Viv is a personal digital assistant armed with a nearly transcendent level of sophistication.
Perhaps I should permanently turn off my phone and put a block on any websites related to transcendent R&B icons.
He never got to play with a transcendent talent like Curry, whose presence might have allowed him to pick apart defenses.
They're still playing very well, but they haven't reached the transcendent peaks they often reached at the beginning of the season.
The fact that there hasn't been a transcendent national security event, at home or abroad, is a miracle that can't last.
The transcendent is also the eternal: the stuff a person "can just find everywhere in the way something moves," Laird says.
Filling "What About Me" with soul-grinding encounters and galling trials, Amodeo nonetheless exalts Lisa's agonies with tender, transcendent passion. ♦
It's the type of action that seems mundane in a crime series, but in fact separates the mediocre from the transcendent.
It's also true that most of Hardwick's transcendent literary efforts after the Second Sex review emerged from her analyses of women.
And, for the second time in this transcendent film, Paul Dédalus, its middle-aged hero, is caught up in a gust.
Even if they believe in God, they imagine a boundary between the transcendent plane, where God lives, and our material one.
If you could create an experience that was flexible but could relate to peoples' social participation online, that would be transcendent.
Antonin Artaud said that life is the imitation of a transcendent principle with which art can put us back in communication.
It would be easier if there were a clear and transcendent moment of realization, but it's mostly just muddled and overwhelming.
Like the Bulls, the Pacers aren't very good overall, but feature a transcendent talent who is capable of making things interesting.
"What followed was one of these transcendent moments in public life," he wrote following an event at a Colorado community college.
If the sushi is not quite as transcendent, it may be the best ever made in the equivalent of a tollbooth.
The Sugar Plum, assisted by her cavalier, dances in sublimity beyond emotion; her transcendent beauty keeps being renewed by the dance.
Though no one would confuse the awkward de Blasio with Cicero, he often waxes poetic about his "historic" and "transcendent" successes.
But we do his memory a disservice if we merely celebrate his difference from people who suffer with less transcendent purpose.
And unlike the transcendent nothingness I entered when I disappeared into the sandwich, this form of vanishing was full of shame.
It seemed to impart the message that no amount of analytical preparation could overcome the transcendent skill of such a player.
Mr. Musafar saw body modification as a transcendent experience, not a tawdry thrill, and viewed himself as a shaman and teacher.
You begin to think: If they want me to sign a nondisclosure agreement, there must be something transcendent going on here.
"From their beginning to their most recent page, the annals of human history reveal the transcendent importance of marriage," he said.
The fundamental problem is that the Bible balances a depiction of an autonomous Hebrew commonwealth with a transcendent standard of justice.
Maybe "Chickens in the Yard" isn't quite transporting or transcendent, but it has humor, heart and an elegant, deceptive surface simplicity.
You're either in the middle of hellishly pummeling "Lord of the Rings"-style battles or you're at the transcendent Pearly Gates.
O.K., maybe not in stained glass windows or old master paintings, where they're frozen in transcendent agony amid instruments of torture.
"It's time to come out of the tunnel," Angela Abar says, pushing an already great episode of Watchmen toward the transcendent.
They just have less and less in common with the transcendent climaxes I hear about from women and the occasional dude.
The tea has become the hottest new drug, as celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Penn Badgley rave about its transcendent properties.
There's a millisecond at the centre of her phrasing of the word "Hey" where her voice embodies an almost transcendent purity.
Discover — or reconnect with — Judy Garland's transcendent rendition of "The Man That Got Away" opposite James Mason in George Cukor's 1954 classic.
When it launched, Amazon never anticipated that it would develop to pose such a transcendent threat to traditional brick-and-mortar retailers.
In its dealings with class, female ambition, and generational divides, it sometimes approached the big leagues of genuinely transcendent, moment-defining television.
Do you buy Strauss's claim that modern liberalism, insofar as it abolishes transcendent standards, was destined to decline into negation and relativism?
And the mental benefits of open-water swimming border on the transcendent: meditative pacing, deep breathing and being one with the environment.
To escape the boredom of work and adulthood and slip into a moment that feels a little freer, a little more transcendent?
James had loads of help from Kyrie Irving, who had his own transcendent game with 41 points on 17-of-24 shooting.
Iran's expansionist aspirations are transparent and transcendent, and it is not coincidental that America's key regional allies are opposed to the deal.
"Our move to Frisco will be transcendent for the PGA of America," said PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh in a statement.
Pick an uplifting, major chord progression, throw in some harmonies and with the added religious connotations, and a basic song becomes transcendent.
For older players, like a transcendent James in the late autumn of his N.B.A. career, this will be time perhaps never recaptured.
Mr. Bowie, a transcendent musical experimenter, was in a relationship with a woman who had dated Mr. Walker and kept his albums.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.
There is talent and depth, size and skill, and the promise that there could be a few transcendent players in the mix.
Agreed. Eli has been a transcendent player on two playoff runs, and otherwise has been the NFL version of a toddler—i.e.
When LeBron James bounds down a basketball court, he is both a transcendent athlete and a prominent palette for dozens of tattoos.
D.C. United, left for dead in midseason, was revived by the arrival of the transcendent (but 33-year-old) striker Wayne Rooney.
What the women's game lacks is the same element it has lacked for far too many years: a transcendent, long-running rivalry.
These linkages between archival footage and the family's present-day are ultimately what make the film so transcendent yet down-to-earth.
Holiday movies do something similar, except that the "transcendent force" they make viewers feel is not about God or another supreme being.
His songs endure, equal parts confessional and craft, yet their punctuation — woeful slide solos and impressionistic a cappella arrangements — make them transcendent.
The mundane became transcendent as I picked up a piece from the pile, looked at it and knew exactly where it fit.
But this is an inadequate characterization, because commercial giants are only welcomed back when the music is undeniably catchy or downright transcendent.
In Spielberg's movies, transcendent or threatening forces enter ordinary existence, where, despite them, children play and couples quarrel, make up, and split.
"There is a transcendent beauty when a rose garden is in full bloom," Rolls-Royce designer Ieuan Hatherall said in a statement.
Alex promises to be a transcendent witch, or bruja, but she believes her magic is tainted and responsible for her father's disappearance.
Each embrace is a pietà waiting to happen, each feeling—affection, duty, concern—a transcendent Romantic passion that totally suffuses their faces.
Kaneisha is clearly nowhere near subspace at the end of Slave Play — there's nothing transcendent about this ending, nor should there be.
Performances take place on an outdoor stage overlooking the ocean, but it's not only the setting that's transcendent: So are the dancers.
Stanya Kahn's tragicomic "It's Cool, I'm Good," about ecology, animal wisdom, and salvation through abjection, is transcendent: one look and you're hooked.
It's a physical thing that you cannot see, giving it a transcendent or even transcendental dimension, which I think is very compelling.
To listen to a work like Skeleton Tree is to stare directly into another person's chasmic anguish, but it is a transcendent experience.
Form giving way to light, not as a comment about the transcendent, but as a fact of observation; we cannot see it all.
Going in, both teams were historically great—the Spurs's defense is otherworldly and both teams are transcendent on both ends of the floor.
Beyoncé falling on stage may be proof that she is a human, but we think that it's actually proof of her transcendent essence.
The idea that Mike Trout is a transcendent baseball talent, nurtured by baseball nerds and nebulous analytics, finally seems to have taken hold.
Whether you attribute the allure of this music to spiritual qualities or not, the liminal spaces that it navigates are in themselves transcendent.
We see the small but transcendent joy of driving home, alone, when the light is just right and the world seems to align.
If Brokeback Mountain achieved mainstream appeal thanks to a "universal" tragic love story, Moonlight was framed as a transcendent coming-of-age story.
We believe in working with talented people, the judgment of our staff, and the transcendent importance of serving the interests of our audiences.
There's no official word on if the show will be bringing back those transcendent science-related music-video parodies, but it's probably likely.
Their scheme was transcendent, and when they were right the Warriors blitzed opponents with unprecedented three-point shooting and galvanic full-spectrum defense.
At this point in their careers, both 22013-year-old Mirza and 36-year-old Hingis are talented, but together, they're simply transcendent.
It's a transcendent moment for Caesar, who, through his first communion with nature, comes to grasp a vision of utopia for his species.
James was transcendent in defeat during last year's Finals, seemingly playing one-on-five while pushing the Warriors despite a severely depleted roster.
As early reviews warned, Paul Feig's new Ghostbusters isn't the transcendent antidote for years of Hollywood gender imbalance some might have hoped for.
On a mountain or in nature, where you can feel all the energy and feel connected with everything, where you can transcendent yourself.
There's something about transcendent talent that causes people to root for it, no matter their allegiances or their usual embrace of the underdog.
There is a sense that the brutality at the heart of this endeavor has been absorbed, transformed, and ultimately refined into something transcendent.
Best, a Northern Irishman known for his transcendent talent, charisma, and hard-living ways, brought a new level of celebrity to British soccer.
Indeed, Locke's toleration made place for the three major monotheistic religions but saw no place for atheism, because it lacked a transcendent authority.
His style feels transcendent, infused with notes of jazz that define the version of the New York City through which the characters walk.
Tucker isn't a rim protector and doesn't possess the same length and off-ball awareness as one of the NBA's most transcendent figures.
It's been used for centuries as a sacrament, with users often reporting transcendent, mystical visions that lead them to greater insight about themselves.
Lundangi's transformation paintings, like "Je me pose des questions" (2017), are transcendent poetic metaphors useful in realizing a greater human potential to connect.
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"I want to see a world with more transcendent musical highs," where "you have more music that's ready for any moment," Martocci opines.
Otherwise middle-of-the-road ballads — "Sometimes", "Lucky", "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman"—became affecting, even transcendent, through her interpretations.
The Thread RE: MAYA RUDOLPH'S TRANSCENDENT COMEDY Caity Weaver profiled the "Saturday Night Live" alum and how she became a master of impressions.
Something that could take the great sorrow of Macy and his balloons and turn it into a piece of honest, true, transcendent art?
But Federer-Nadal — or Nadal-Federer if you are respecting Nadal's 23-15 head-to-head edge — has been transcendent just the same.
But whatever your feelings about the longest night, the winter solstice — transcendent, yet precise; celestial, but very local — is worth pausing to savor.
In popular religious practice there isn't always a clean line between this "immanent" religion and the transcendent alternative offered by Christianity and Judaism.
Dishes — including salmon tartare served with jalapeño and shrimp chips, and black cod resting on seasonal vegetables — use simple ingredients to transcendent effect.
Taylor Swift is not simply a pop musician, she is transcendent of that; she's on a tier only a handful will ever achieve.
For the next four minutes, Franklin delivers a transcendent performance, full of every element and characteristic that makes her the Queen of Soul.
Meanwhile, David Lynch's bizarre but periodically transcendent Twin Peaks revival didn't get nominated for jack shit—probably the most glaring snub this year.
This is a reductive understanding of an author who not only cherished individual subjectivity, but also valorized the transcendent power of collective action.
"I knew from the very first page that this was something absolutely transcendent," Marysue Rucci, the editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, said.
What gave that strategy added power was his singing: From the beginning, he had a transcendent, curious voice that verged on the prepubescent.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)This is a significant year for people who believe in the limitless power of transcendent leadership to change the world.
Jackson, though, is a special case, mostly because of his transcendent running ability and Baltimore's eagerness to make full use of it. 16.
She changed her name to Turiyasangitananda ("the transcendent bliss of God's highest song"), having her children practice spelling it out with fridge magnets.
What Saint Phalle, who died in 2002, left behind in Tuscany is dazzling or deranged, transcendent or tawdry, depending on whom you ask.
Simone Weil said that the transcendent meaning of Christianity is complete with Jesus' death, sans the cherry on top that is the Resurrection.
Every Sunday since January 2000, the Kardashian-West family, their friends, and associates have gathered in Calabasas for a transcendent, invite-only jam.
And transcendent of race is the wish of many parents to set their children up for greater success and stability than they had.
Talking completely over their heads will make you seem wildly transcendent and intimidatingly creative, even though the truth is you really just like cake.
He knew this mostly through a process of elimination: He had tried every other thing, and none of them felt transcendent or even interesting.
By contrast, the gap between the transcendent Mr Trout and MLB's weakest outfielders only comes to about ten wins over a 853-game season.
And when lumped together, they become something bordering on transcendent: a squishy, satisfying mess of naked, flapping body parts that makes QWOP look tame.
What is striking about Mr Kipchoge's performance, however, is that he posted such a transcendent mark when many outside factors didn't go quite right.
The mindfulness that goes into these costumes is incredible, and the show wouldn't be as transcendent if these details weren't labored over so painstakingly.
For some, this translates to feelings of universal connectedness, which is why some users describe their acid trips as being transcendent or religious-like.
According to Mike Hout, a sociology professor at New York University, what Americans are rejecting is not the transcendent but simply structures and organisation.
Are moral truths merely a matter of opinion and cultural consensus , or are they grounded in the mind of a transcendent, objective, moral Being ?
Everybody acts a little crazy, irritable, weepy, or mean (with the exception of beautiful, transcendent Tai.) Nobody keeps it completely together for 39 days.
"It is obvious that micro-movements of individuals praying or reaching transcendent elation have been guided by completely different meanings of time," Zbierski says.
The social scientist James Davidson Hunter has also argued that evangelicals emphasize deference to "transcendent authority" based on inflexible conceptions of religion or tradition.
Clay became for the early 1960s what Joe Louis had been for the mid-1930s, a singular, transcendent force in the world of sports.
Grunewald first learned that she was sick in 2009, when she was a good, but not yet transcendent, runner at the University of Minnesota.
It feels like peeling layers of clay from around a gem, clearing away debris until you're left with a transcendent piece of otherworldly beauty.
Would I stumble into a transcendent experience or end up in bed before midnight, laid low by decision paralysis and listening to old podcasts?
That early pivot, though—that willingness to venture into uncharted territory—is what makes Wilco a transcendent band rather than merely an admirable one.
In many ways, it's a reminder that there is no transcendent moral order, no humanitarian rights, apart from the ones we create and defend.
Freddie Mercury, frontman of Queen and transcendent being of pure performative joy and vitality, would have been 70 years old this Monday, September 5.
This is a lot to ask a reader to accept, and it's only a worthwhile investment of effort when the result approaches the transcendent.
But if you want to enjoy them at their most delicious and transcendent, they require the sort of food with which they go well.
Then, it was just Frank left to deliver the final, transcendent coda; 50,000 people singing "Solo", seeming to set a blissful seal on proceedings.
In one, an amulet is strung over her closed eyes, her head slightly upturned, skyward, as though she is transcendent, or hoping to transcend.
The Dunk Contest is sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes transcendent in a way that makes the dumbest shit imaginable into high art.
The habit of treating artists as transcendent creators rather than as players in an economic system serves to protect them from typical workplace expectations.
Even if you're not typically a soccer person, this has been a thrilling tournament, and there's something transcendent about global events that aren't catastrophes.
But the cramming is, in truth, transcendent, this gentle collapsing of time and bending of space to capture worldly things in their everyday profusion.
So Ken Griffey Jr. — a transcendent African-American outfielder and Hall of Fame member — was criticized for wearing his baseball cap backward in practice.
But Cox's breakout performance in the preliminary final two weeks ago suggested that he might be on the cusp of becoming a transcendent star.
It was an intense scene for O'Connell, and Dern, even though she was off-camera, was "transcendent," giving him everything he needed to perform.
Simone was a transcendent artist, a political radical, and a deeply complicated woman trapped in a variety of abusive relationships, both romantic and otherwise.
Andreescu, an 18-year-old with a complete game, was transcendent in winning the BNP Paribas Open title in March in Indian Wells, Calif.
This is a story about obsession — the preoccupation that Hanyu's fans have with a transcendent international star and his own ambition for impeccable victory.
They didn't get a chance to laugh at the absurdity of it all, which has always been the transcendent hallmark of Mr. Browne's work.
Instead, Nietzsche grounded himself in a version of naturalism—the post-Darwinian conviction that humans are an animal species, led by no transcendent purpose.
Then, in a beatific, transcendent moment, she thanks Brünnhilde for helping her escape to safety so she can give birth to the young hero.
Long before the final buzzer ought to have sounded, perhaps even before half time, Kobe Bryant's transcendent life was snatched from NBA fans everywhere.
Even without Draymond Green, who had flown back home after the birth of his son, these Warriors featured a flock of transcendent All-Stars.
But it's no less transcendent as they transition from the slow motorik of some workmanlike techno, through brutalist EBM, and off-kilter post-punk.
Fabio Luisi, in the pit, fell short of the transcendent atmosphere that Noseda summoned at Carnegie, but he led with authority and passion nonetheless.
The feeling you get from having just tidied up the house, especially as a solution to listless boredom, is sometimes nothing short of transcendent.
Seen at close range, as they necessarily are in this compact gallery, their transcendent luminosity is thrillingly at odds with their straightforward material presence.
She is a transcendent cultural figure, too, known for her colorful, edgy fashion sense (holographic lipstick, anyone?), bold and experimental music videos, and devoted fanbase.
It's a transcendent moment in Black beauty, to be sure, but one that celebrity wig stylist Kim Kimble first saw percolating in the early aughts.
Before Sunday, only rarely in the Chiefs' previous 25 games, this era of transcendent football authored by Mahomes, had they had a disadvantage at quarterback.
As the 12th (and final) sign on the Wheel of the Zodiac, they're often described as "old souls" and looked to for sage, transcendent advice.
As such, black suggests something of the raw energetic formlessness of the black hole or void, and so has something transcendent and timeless about it.
" Sokoloff: "Shirley Jackson's incomparable The Haunting of Hill House, and Dan Simmons' The Terror, which is the most surprisingly transcendent horror novel I've ever read.
Where a conference of only bankers or just technologists might shed some light on a trade, stark combinations of seemingly unrelated industries can be transcendent.
If you are a monotheist, convinced there is only one transcendent deity, then discussion about "the same" God or different ones doesn't make much sense.
It's such a transcendent moment that I swelled up before realizing I was about to cry, and started crying before I really figured out why.
This time around, Urban jilted his beloved guitar to accompany himself on a grand piano, tapping into his feminine side to deliver a transcendent performance.
At the end of Diamonds, when the stage became filled with Bolshoi dancers in sparkling white costumes and perfectly geometric lines, the experience was transcendent.
Instead, Transformed is divided into blandly broad thematic sections: The Divine Body; The Regal Body; The Transcendent Body; The Alluring Body; and The Resplendent Body.
Or perhaps Fisher is more of a Mack Brown, a good coach whose transcendent quarterback elevated him into higher esteem than he might otherwise deserve.
The most transcendent scene for me is the swimming scene [when Juan teaches young Chiron how to float], which to me felt like a baptism.
In his juxtaposition of art and life, Renoir contrives an ending, bitter yet affirmative, that combines irony, pathos and self-reflection in one transcendent image.
Either the '96 Bulls were a timeless team, transcendent defenders and gods among men, or, more likely, their competition just wasn't as challenging as today's.
By contrast, the group's "Music for 18 Musicians" — 20, in this case — was the transcendent experience you always hope for when hearing this piece live.
The turn of the centuries to 1000 and 2000 did cause many people to wonder if our presence on this Earth has any transcendent meaning.
"They all were using art as a means to chart the depths of their psyche; their art has a transcendent quality about it," he says.
He has this oxymoronic habit of crowing about self-effacement, and it sired the night's best moment, when he perfectly skewered Trump's transparent, transcendent vanity.
He's a transcendent talent at his position, and was a consensus first-round pick, if not top five, for every fantasy football draft this year.
You can see from the reaction how [much it's meant to people], and I think it's going to keep going on, because he's very transcendent.
Club culture is a couple of dialogues: the transcendent salvation people strive for on the dancefloor, and another which revolves around creating dance music, i.e.
With D'Antoni's ingenuity and Harden's transcendent skill-set ultimately running the show, Houston's front office treated the offensive side of the ball as a priority.
Every individual part of the cake was flawless, but the combination of all those flavors working together within a single cake made it deliciously transcendent.
His play was transcendent in a way that never seemed to deliver much in the way of delight, or at least less delight than relief.
And what of the Milwaukee Bucks, the finest team in the East, and their transcendent star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is so intent on dethroning James?
Though educated in a Catholic environment, he has come to believe that nothing exists beyond the world of everyday experience and scientific explanation — nothing transcendent.
Even the most transcendent art arrives via the transient vessels known as artists, and Wiman knows how to bring both to life on the page.
Emphasizing certain transcendent themes in Western humanism, they advocated the universalism of human rights and denigrated any and all attachment to particular nations or cultures.
But if you didn't know why he was considered a transcendent dancer or a transformational figure, you still won't know after the final credits roll.
Liverpool's attack, headlined by the transcendent Mohamed Salah and the almost-as-good Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino, blitzed through the league terrifying opposing defenses.
In fact, she was the embodiment of the feminist paean "Nice for What," before Drake sang those words in praise of talented, powerful, transcendent women.
Beyoncé's voice was strong, and her dancing energized, though her overall intensity wasn't quite at the level of her transcendent Coachella performance earlier this year.
Real life exists in the gaps, which, in the case of "Jesus Raves," is a mostly substance-induced gray zone between earthly and transcendent elation.
Hardship is transcendent, hardship is universal and for the issue of alopecia, of which, there are millions of sufferers, certainly there are many black women.
Indiana is hardly a pushover, and Paul George is the type of player who is going to have a transcendent playoff series at some point.
I've watched and studied danced for nearly my whole life; I understand well the ways in which it can be inscrutable as much as transcendent.
Sometimes "La Mélancolie des dragons" excites the desire for showier, more imperative effects, a transcendent moment that will exalt or resolve what has come before.
The Japanese Zen Buddhist's lines — full of cherry blossoms and "plum scent" and a cricket's song — offer a transcendent connection to nature that spans centuries.
A century after its founding, the German school of art and architecture remains one of the most transcendent — and frustrating — movements of the Modernist age.
CF: It's helpful to hear you talk about music and art not as binary or dialectical or transcendent but polyvalent, androgynous — offering many different outcomes.
Sharing an extended and utterly transcendent embrace, the two seemed to exchange a moment of disbelief that they were in fact meeting for the first time.
Instead, as Trump and Cruz parried, Rubio interjected, not with a transcendent moment, but with a familiar recitation of a relevant portion of his stump speech.
Conor McGregor has seemingly willed himself into becoming MMA's transcendent attraction through a combination of sheer clarity of vision and world-class next-level shit talk.
The lasting effect is not unlike peering at a painting such as Bruegel the Elder's "Children's Games"—a teeming, vulgar and transcendent record of medieval life.
Not the "sublime" or transcendent, but the brutality, theatre, innocence, and confusion that made up their racist, sexist, sexy, and impossible city of love and lovelessness.
For Miguel, seeing the war outside is almost enough to cast doubt on leisure, the purpose of transcendent sex, and good drugs—even pop music itself.
" In his closing chapters, Carroll ­tackles what he calls the hardest problem of all: how to find meaning in a cosmos that is "without transcendent purpose.
Whether or not the crappy Kings made him this way, this is Boogie now: a transcendent player who dances between grumpy defeatism and alluring creative joy.
What does matter is that this song still bops mightily and is CRJ's greatest mission statement of pursuing irrational, transcendent romance in all avenues of life.
The love affair was punctuated by the release of Resident Evil 7, a striking reimagining of a stagnant horror franchise whose use of VR was transcendent.
Justin Vernon, his delicately fascinating and tonal voice that sits somewhere between robotic and transcendent only ever appearing each time Kanye West released a new record.
Directed with care by Lee Sunday Evans, this irreducible, transcendent "Macbeth" commands engagement as it plumbs the internal life of these characters, revealing their fragile emotions.
In a recent test of the new Cayenne SUV, it took me all of five seconds to be transported to that transcendent Porsche state of mind.
As part of the White Light Festival, this urbane pianist performs the "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus," Olivier Messiaen's transcendent meditation on the birth of Christ.
And certain strands of her more recent work have a meditative, existentialist cast — a reminder of Ms. Piper's initial hopes for the transcendent potential of abstraction.
It was July 2017, and James, once a transcendent teenage talent himself, went to see Williamson, the next big thing, at a showcase in Las Vegas.
Yet "Little Buddha" has a storybook simplicity that is unusual for Bertolucci, who seems utterly committed to making the transcendent accessible to the widest possible audience.
All the more reason to appreciate those rare winning plays that can seem so easy and transcendent, in spite of the complex forces that guide them.
And from the former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick to the transcendent point guard Stephen Curry, Trump seems to especially enjoy picking public fights with black athletes.
When the ensemble, led by Mr. Liberman, delivers the show's final number, "Answer Me," the music takes on a transcendent harmonic shimmer that stops the heart.
As a word, "empathy" frustrates me because there's so much that's beautiful and transcendent about its definition: Feeling someone else's pain, or feeling someone else's feelings.
It is to surrender to some orthodoxy that will overthrow the superficial obsessions of the self and put one's life in contact with a transcendent ideal.
Duke Transcendent talents like Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett are no longer in the Blue Devils' program, but there is more than enough remaining in Durham.
Sadly, my legs began throbbing and I end up spending a good chunk of my transcendent time focused on the discomfort and trying to fidget quietly.
"Their stance is the classic tension between canon law, and their sense that there is some sort of higher, transcendent entity, and common law," Singleton said.
Even though the effects in 2001 are dated, the actual way that sequence at the end of the film functions within the movie is still completely transcendent.
In 1499 AD, Michelangelo completed the Pieta, a transcendent marriage of classical ideals and divine imagination long considered one of the finest works ever freed from stone.
For the past many months, the Kardashian-West family and their friends and associates have gathered every Sunday in Calabasas for a transcendent, invite-only spiritual jam.
At another level, it seeks fresh ways to convey transcendent truths—combining "creative man with God the creator", in the words of Pawel Rojek, a conservative critic.
The "or, or, or" is a recognizable lament for anyone who takes up the fight between self and others, art and life, the quotidian and the transcendent.
" Elsewhere, his less ambitious rapping is buffeted by transcendent guest singers — Ant Clemons on the sterling "Water," and Clemons and Ty Dolla Sign on "Everything We Need.
The early months of it, I remember having the most vividly euphoric experiences, very transcendent, very blissful; a body high, but also with a strong mental side.
Listeners are invited to follow his wanderings, to take jumps between cultures and historical eras and even to leap between the here-and-now and the transcendent.
He's Romeo from Romeo + Juliet and Jack Dawson from Titanic (which turns 20 this month) — the endearing, childlike rascals who experience transcendent love before meeting early deaths.
And yet there is an inescapable reputational give-and-take at work once a portfolio of transcendent playing achievements has been thickened with a middling managerial stint.
Moonlight deserved to win (it's a transcendent piece of film-making) and it would have been a travesty if the mistake wasn't cleared up during the telecast.
What I'm saying is that the NBA isn't hurting for #content, even before you consider how weird Elfrid Payton is or the transcendent grumpiness of DeMarcus Cousins.
Standing on the shoulders of King-centric box office success, Flanagan delivered a transcendent journey full of scenes that ought to be iconic in their own right.
We all witnessed a transcendent performance in Sunday's final Masters round, a groundbreaking moment of popular culture that future generations will look back upon with jaws agape.
Yet whether it is useful, given the absence from all of them of a malevolent demiurge and a transcendent God, to call them "Gnostic" is less certain.
Mike D'Antoni has two Eclipse Award-winning thoroughbreds helming his transcendent system; Green is merely a juiced-up guinea pig back strapped to one of their backs.
For many Americans, President Obama's election, made possible in part by the rising strength of nonwhite voters, signaled a transcendent moment in the country's knotty racial history.
The largest act of kindness Lou can muster toward a difficult passenger is to let him pick the music, the most transcendent experience a visit to Graceland.
She was projected as the Tiger Woods of women's golf, the transcendent talent who would transform the game, and she struggled under the weight of those expectations.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Floating Piers" had the potential to be exactly the type of magical, large-scale artwork that brings a transcendent experience to the masses.
Their forms are shifting, unpinnable, floating somewhere above the mere physicality of the samples they choose from, a brief, transcendent respite from the strains of daily existence.
I wish the show weren't framed as conveying work from "Africa," as if to suggest that Africa is defined by transcendent and therefore uniform histories and politics.
Dealing with the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time has the potential, as in "Mega Death," for the creation of astoundingly beautiful environments for quiet contemplation.
For Madrid-based artist Guillaume Alby, better known as Remed, the mural is also an opportunity to explore spiritual connections and provide a transcendent experience for viewers.
Mark Rothko, for example, wanted viewers to stand close to his paintings, to be enveloped by their hues, to have a mythic, transcendent experience with his work.
Remembering their increasing physical skill as swimmers and wave-jumpers and Frisbee tossers, remembering the cumulative humor, good and bad, and the transcendent schlep of family vacations.
He used his iconic, transcendent TV persona, prosecutors said, to trick women into taking pills that he knew would make them unable to resist his sexual advances.
Billions of people around the world — many of whom live in the West — still believe in God or a transcendent higher power and engage in religious practice.
So baseball players sail toward a possible confrontation with the owners without leaders who possess the transcendent cultural cachet and business power of, say, a LeBron James.
" At this stage of the transcendent 15-year rivalry, there is also a bit of "we know that they know that we know that they know, etc.
Odes. We don't create enough art, music, and literature paying homage to fleeting but transcendent aesthetic experiences, loved ones, and dead pets, and that's a damn shame.
Last night's gig wasn't meant to turn out this way, but the transcendent power of music and Manchester's resilience will help to push us through the fallout.
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That said, I will admit I wish she had done a leetle something special with her hair (a sleek low bun, perhaps?) to make the look truly transcendent.
And while I've made the pilgrimage to the iconic painter's home, a transcendent experience in itself, there was something about this exhibit that still lingers in me now.
But I don't think he's the transcendent talent that his 1,800-yard season two years ago indicates, and I think he's in one of the NFL's worst situations.
Lonzo Ball floats around the court with transcendent selflessness, and it's scary to picture a Josh Jackson/Jaylen Brown tandem terrorizing opposing wings for the next ten years.
What makes Transcendence's music so literally transcendent is how it builds new sonic textures on top of these historic audio samples, effectively linking our present with our past.
Stripped down but smoothly persisting as transcendent concord, this embodiment of a general longing for sweeping synthesis became the central motivating ideal of orthodox Modernism's unified, reductive model.
Despite the babysitters' near-transcendent level of adolescent responsibility, Martin makes sure to keep their maturity level realistic and relatable; when they fought, they fought like middle schoolers.
But the kinds of queer pain and love deemed transcendent or even transformative for audiences in these recent films keep circling back to the same themes and characters.
People use the word transcendent and I'm not criticizing the way people use the word because it's one of those words like "spiritual" that doesn't really mean anything.
For instance, I'm hugely intrigued by various Japanese aesthetic concepts, such as "aware" (哀れ), which evokes the bitter-sweetness of a brief, fading moment of transcendent beauty.
Of the many deaths that accrued over the course of the season, like corpses piling up in the mud outside the gates of Winterfell, Hodor's alone was transcendent.
James will try to follow up his latest transcendent performance and guide the Cleveland Cavaliers to a seventh straight win when they host the Charlotte Hornets on Friday.
"This is a transcendent step," said Alejo Vargas, a political scientist who heads a group that brought war victims to Havana to speak with negotiators during the talks.
Most are polite exhumations that follow the often great man of history/art/politics arc with the usual highs and lows, witchy and whiny women, and transcendent payoff.
This is an essential part of what it means to be human, this shifting between the transcendent self and the contingent world, the ecstasy and the dental bill.
Ask for help with housework on or around Friday, because transcendent Neptune and attractive Venus will make a strong harmony, allowing you to tap into other people's resources.
Petting a headless robot cat and shaming yourself into eating better Do we live in a world of transcendent progress and innovation, or an increasingly inhuman techno-dystopia?
Kanter, too, should know transcendent potential when he sees it, having shared much court time at his last stop in Oklahoma City with Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant.
Sassy, transcendent, indifferent, defiant, needy, lonely, mothering, perspicacious, and tough, Arnold was one of the first fully-rendered gay human beings that mainstream America would acknowledge as such.
They are a direct challenge to the rigid criteria for Abstract Expressionist painting that demands artists override the personal in search of the transcendent through abstraction and gesture.
All it asks is that you be quiet enough to hear the music in the murmurs, whispers and silences of human existence at its most mundane — and transcendent.
Ivan Albright represents a deeply transcendent, even Platonic, idea of the soul, although one could be forgiven for missing it among the mercilessly unglamorous bodies of his figures.
But like those shows, its cookie-cutter outlines allow for the possibility of a transcendent star performance, one that pushes past note-by-note impersonation into idiosyncratic portraiture.
But at the center of it is a transcendent voice singing against heavy machinery, daring you to listen to the words coming out of your own mouth. ♦
Ancient texts in many faith traditions record the way in which we, merely human, acknowledge a Creator, a Spirit, a Yahweh who is transcendent and beyond human understanding.
"In the Framers' view, free government was only suitable and sustainable for a religious people—a people who recognized that there was a transcendent moral order," he said.
"You're still Hanako," her father reminds her, and it's Hanako herself — warm, thoughtful and deeply affectionate — who sets the tone for this transcendent story of love and family.
By mixing moving bodies with mechanically repeating geometries, Schlemmer points us at today's world of work, where automation is everywhere in the transcendent projects of globalizing neo-liberalism.
The paradoxical hunger for nonstop novelty and the compulsive re-creation of newness, propelled by modern capitalism, represent transcendent urges that could be tapped for subversive, collectivist action.
When I open a bottle of true olive oil, the aroma explodes out of the bottle, my kitchen smells like an olive grove, and the taste is transcendent.
But I wanted to go beyond that, even, and have things that feel ancient or transcendent because the movie ultimately becomes quite epic and quite cosmic in its scope.
She is less warm and authentic than her husband Bill Clinton or her 2016 opponent Bernie Sanders; she is less eloquent and transcendent than her 2008 opponent Barack Obama.
If never a threat from the perimeter, he may ultimately be more novel commodity than transcendent unicorn, far too dependent on others than a genuine superstar has to be.
Dominant teams have never been a problem in sports, and fans don't lose interest because a few transcendent teams or athletes are simply too good at what they do.
If there were a better place to see Julianna Barwick and Julia Holter play their intimate, transcendent compositions than at a Presbyterian church, I certainly can't think of one.
Following an introductory strum of Harrison's beloved sitar, "My Sweet Lord (2000)" features a transcendent, oddly human-sounding chorus of intersecting slide guitar lines, all overdubbed by Harrison himself.
SLEEP is a surreal, seamless patchwork of magical moments like this, woven throughout the story with the hope that if the artists found something transcendent, an audience might too.
Even the most critically acclaimed animated movies, like last year's Coco, tend to be held up as transcendent of the medium rather than as brilliant examples of its possibility.
"The love in the food and the atmosphere was transcendent.. so grateful… thank you Ian the master chef and Fig and with the company of Preston.. blessings," Meyers added.
Simmons was always supposed to be the transcendent, generational prospect, and he has the title of First Overall and the task of turning around a thoroughly tanked-out team.
While OKC's offense rarely looked as good as its defense, that doesn't matter when you have Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, who took turns being transcendent in the series.
I also think both TW Walsh and I were disappointed that we weren't able to get closer to something that had sort of a little bit of transcendent value.
While it may not be the Big O, my whiteboard will never know the transcendent joy I experience when building real apps for women IRL to solve real problems.
While the band's reputation for transcendent, often intensely physical performances alone could occupy paragraphs upon paragraphs,their very sound itself is engaging and captivating in ways that defy description.
As the Golden State Warriors celebrated their Game 210 victory in the Western Conference finals late Monday, Durant found Stephen Curry, the Warriors' transcendent star, and the two embraced.
And in the middle of a parking lot, in the middle of fall, with the sun finally setting enough to hide the endless grey sky, that really is transcendent.
The outlook: Republicans tell us that with midterms approaching and the border kids becoming a transcendent story, administration efforts to blame Democrats and parse the policy could become unsustainable.
What I remember of that drive was how brown everything was, until you arrive at Marfa's simple, transcendent reward, magic-hour light writ huge on Donald Judd's minimalist sculptures.
The central story, however -- which is inspired by a remarkable true one -- never feels as transcendent or stirring as director/co-writer Robert Zemeckis clearly intends it to be.
In "The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939," her account of their journey published in 1947, she would portray her friend as both tragic and transcendent.
But beyond policy objectives, what our great country calls for (and what the world expects from us) is something much more transcendent than the victory of a leftist leader.
When they are older, say, 10 years old for a St.-Joseph and 20 years for a Hermitage, they can be gorgeous and, in the case of Hermitage, transcendent.
Though they selected a transcendent talent in Barkley, the decision not to draft a quarterback as the eventual heir to Manning could haunt this franchise for years to come.
Their command of aesthetics is second to none, and the music itself is just transcendent; the atmosphere, the intricacy, the intensity, the artistry, it's all there and then some.
Rafael Nadal won his 12th French Open singles title, reconfirming his singular brilliance on clay but also extending the dominance of a trio of transcendent champions in their thirties.
Art is transcendent and that makes it very, very dirty if they take the money; it's failing the whole idea of a museum as a place to show art.
Notre-Dame, Macron said, is "our history" and "our imaginary": a means, in other words, to remember and an inspiration to all who aspire for something transcendent, beyond self.
It was already often a sculptural object, but now that there are fewer and fewer papers to weigh down, the paperweight has achieved a nearly transcendent level of redundancy.
Because he edits less and holds shots longer than more conventional documentarians, his films are akin to Warhol screen tests — full of revealing behavioral tics and transcendent empty moments.
Her latest exhibit, "Girl Transcendent," which is part of a larger project spanning three decades, is on view at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Hawaii until Aug. 16.
The team's captain and longest-tenured player, Ovechkin, 22016, has spent all 22017 seasons of his transcendent career with the team, which drafted him first over all in 210.
" Writing in the National Board of Review Magazine, the critic Harry Alan Potamkin called "Joan" religious but not sanctimonious, ending his review by stating: "It is a transcendent film.
It incorporates the eccentric depiction of natural phenomena, including a direct reference to Shohaku's screen "Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind" (circa 1764) where a tornado resembles a serpent's coiled tail.
A politics that is unable to translate its positions into some sort of transcendent language, pointing to something greater than the individual, is a politics that will ultimately fail.
Like all writers, I was an insatiable reader as a child: James Marshall's hilarious hippos George and Martha; Roald Dahl's grubby and hysterical novels; Lynda Barry's deep, transcendent comics.
Here again was a central courtyard open to sky, which Eliade likens to the smoke hole in a temple and sees as part of a communication with the transcendent.
It was only a perceptual gap, and it only lasted for an instant, but I couldn't help gasping at all the transcendent mysteries just such an opening might contain.
In this manner, "Short" joins other middle-grade novels — like Tim Federle's "Five, Six, Seven, Nate!" and Alex Gino's "George" — in celebrating the transcendent power of theater for kids.
But Beethoven more or less started the idea of the composer as colossus: a heroic visionary with a rare link to transcendent realms, creating symphonic works for the ages.
It's the wrestling between those two natures, the battle between worldly desires, like power and money and sex, and more transcendent preoccupations, like salvation, that makes up our lives.
When paired with video clips documenting fishing and farming practices (as well as streams of city traffic), Mr. Niblock's loud, slowly moving microtonal clouds achieved moments of transcendent impact.
He meant that the idea or sense of the transcendent God, in Western modernity, had "died," and the ability to appeal to God as moral authority along with him.
The value of a second-round pick is never more clear than in transcendent figures like Manu Ginobili or Draymond Green, but they still feel like an undervalued commodity.
Despite its "primitive" modeling, the triptych positively glows with an air of grave celebration — of brilliant color wedded to a gravity of form, all in service of the transcendent.
Early in life, Léger embraced a transcendent, quasi-Futurist love of technological energy along with the Cubist notion of putting the squeeze on: fracturing objects into sharp geometric shapes.
"It is a transcendent moment when skilled filmmakers are able to train their lens on a major transformation," Lisa Nishimura, VP of Original Documentaries for Netflix, said in a statement.
I was in Jerusalem in December 2013, visiting many holy places, but honestly I never felt so disconnected to the "transcendent" in my life as I did in these places.
The game's mystic narrative, stunning visuals, and ingenious multiplayer element that paired players with silent, anonymous strangers over the internet made it a truly transcendent experience gaming hadn't seen before.
The talks draw in part on "Living with Gods", an exhibition at the British Museum that uses objects to portray the transcendent as it has been conceived throughout human history.
"Conversations With Angels" finds the three artists working strictly in the zone of ethereal, oneiric ambiance, evoking the title's notion of transcendent communication across a series of zero-gravity movements.
A year ago I opined that in the remainder of his administration the president could salvage a legacy of pointing toward a transcendent commonality, a transcendence of race consciousness altogether.
They share a transcendent, commanding, engaging presence, as though Yiadom-Boakye has willed her subjects into being, enfleshing them that they might speak to our own minds and imaginations. —LP
CNN's Fareed Zakaria, in an interview with us about transcendent global forces, calls it the "extraordinary" trend of a "synchronized global recovery" that could well continue into 1.73 and beyond.
Whether it is mountains, rivers, rocks, animals, plants, stars or weather, they see the natural world as living and breathing, deeply relational, and even at times all-knowing and transcendent.
Sufjan Stevens is the indie folk Frederick Wiseman, (though genre probably means nothing to him at this point) taking the mundane or niche and elevating it into something near-transcendent.
Its one transcendent moment is the single "Close," a hypnotic collaboration with Tove Lo that makes perfect use of space and dynamics, and even that song reveals Jonas' natural limitations.
In this article, Lew Serviss, an assistant editor on the Print News Hub, reveals the genesis and decade-long stewardship of Robert Lipsyte's moving tribute to a "transcendent" cultural icon.
In short, not even an ex-President, for all his heft and influence, can mar the charms of so transcendent a technique, or curb its ability to suck us in.
Since becoming the Kings' lead announcer in 21980, Miller, a Chicago native, has become a legend in a city that has seen transcendent broadcasters enjoy long tenures with local teams.
Last year, a remix compilation called "Funkadelic Reworked by Detroiters" allowed such dance producers as Moodymann and Underground Resistance to show gratitude to their forebears for all those transcendent rhythms.
It's one of the most beautiful songs that I know, that I could just listen to at home on repeat, but it's also a pretty transcendent song on the dancefloor.
Photograph by Krista Schlueter for The New Yorker On some nights, the loud music and brightly colored L.E.D. lights create a sort of transcendent synergy with the boldly flavored food.
If you walked up to the same people who gave Bostrom a respectful hearing and told them there is a transcendent God, many would dismiss the idea out of hand.
It does make for a particularly fascinating moment to re-evaluate Jackson's image as a fundamentally "black" but simultaneously racially transcendent figure, or a monstrous desecration, depending on your perspective.
Their bond — which Netflix translates as "lifelong confidantes," but which alternate translations usually interpret as "soulmates" — becomes transcendent, a chaste but heady yearning holding them together across time and tragedy.
This is a watershed and transcendent moment that calls into question both governments' ability to cooperate and to address one of the most pressing local public problems of our time.
Of course, these are still great numbers, but it seems telling that his last transcendent year came the last time he played the position he was originally drafted to play.
Harden is a transcendent talent, a scoring machine who has perfected an acrobat-on-skates step-back that lets him release long jump shots in the face of frustrated opponents.
"From Washington all the way through to President Obama, presidents have had to play a unifying and even transcendent role in affirming a sense of national unity," Mr. Meacham said.
During their courtship, Vignette and Philo discuss the transcendent power of stories in a way that's reminiscent of Tyrion's awful electioneering monologue in the final episode of Game of Thrones.
Mr. Shohaku's large screen painting "Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind" (circa 1764) portrays a superhuman fighting the swirl of a storm as two of his colleagues are dashed to the ground.
Along the way, Schulman posits that the relationship between the pain we feel and the songs and compositions we love has its roots in a tender, transcendent form of symbiosis.
His leading lady, Vanessa Redgrave (struggling with an indeterminate accent), was brave, pathetic and finally transcendent in the role of Lady, the love-starved Italian wife of a Southern bigot.
But this season has been defined by Joe Burrow's transcendent talents, and while Clemson has plenty of players on their sideline, I don't think they have an answer for Burrow.
Like members of a gnostic cult, we long to enter the next transcendent phase of our development, shedding our bodies and leaving them behind, along with our sins and troubles.
Instead of a transcendent excursion into an altered consciousness, sensory deprivation had hilariously underscored the primacy of my body; it was almost a purely physical experience from start to finish.
The big difference between these two schemes is that The Four Kinds of Happiness moves from the self-transcendence individual to the relational and finally to the transcendent and collective.
Even back in DNA, I wanted to make something that could work in more than one way at once, as opposed to kind of meshing into a third transcendent form.
The hostility remained for some time, exacerbated for the Dutch when the transcendent team of Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens was beaten by Germany in the 1974 World Cup final.
He pinpoints his 1965 photograph "Man With a Pistol" as a transcendent moment in his artistic course, calling it one of the first photographs he ever fell in love with.
" Bolstered by new explorations into consciousness and the quantum underpinnings of the brain, Mitchell promulgated a theory that all actions in the universe are imprinted upon a transcendent "quantum hologram.
But the inability to reconcile the humor with the darkness results in a dour miniseries, and one that misses what made Heller's Catch-22 such an enjoyable, relatable, transcendent paradox.
We could begin with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter—the singer, mother, and pop maximalist who understands that music can, and should, be a kind of cinema—and her historically transcendent Coachella performance.
Scholars of religion have coined the term "the Axial Age" to describe a period around 500 B.C. when the concept of a transcendent realm helped spur social developments around the world.
Previously, Structuralist concepts of totality led French Post-Structuralists to formulate the impossibility of maintaining total transcendent meanings, and this trend has carried over into the outstanding work of Gilles Deleuze.
The brain trust that created the roadmap for Obama's election has long seen Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts and longtime friend of the former president, as a transcendent political talent.
PLAYING WITH FIRE In the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's transcendent postwar classic "Record of a Tenement Gentleman," a widow is saddled with an abandoned boy but takes a shine to him.
Rather, there are a lot of gestures toward outrage, mockery, self-mockery, self-loathing, and cultural image–hijacking that, despite the gleeful, stupid exuberance, provide few moments of critical transcendent emancipation.
I can remember so many transcendent moments at his parties and I can also remember seeing others having a similar experience and simultaneously thinking how beautiful everyone looked in that state.
It's an utterly gorgeous, transcendent, spectral thing of immense beauty which sounds like every good moment you've ever had on MDMA condensed into a few minutes of star-spangled-space-disco.
Resident Evil 7 is a fine game outside of VR, but removed from the comforts of the outside world, the reminders that Everything Is Fine, and Resident Evil 7 becomes transcendent.
Federal courts have struck down every speech code enacted at a public university, and the Supreme Court has declared academic freedom a "transcendent value" of "special concern to the First Amendment".
Singer Toian made a splash onto the Jamaican dancehall scene when she unexpectedly ended up on "Ice Queen," a song about leaving emotions behind by the genre's transcendent megastar Vybz Kartel.
Rather than trying to conjure supernatural forces, however, McKenna captures the transcendent beauty of what's plainly within reach, and reminds us that the mysteries of the natural world are already boundless.
His breakout tape, Tsarina, came out earlier this year and features a legitimate hit in "Penelope," but the record still grasps for something unique and transcendent without ever fully getting there.
But McCoy is the transcendent talent here, he's the one with insane lateral moves, and if he stays healthy, he's the one who's got a potential top-five season in him.
The first canonically transgender character, Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, appeared in a card set released last year, along with Narset, Enlightened Master (later Narset Transcendent), the first Planeswalker with autism.
This planted the seeds for an idea: What if someone created a religion like Scientology that actually worked—that did give people transcendent mental power, such as mind-reading and levitation?
Much of what you get at Joy Luck Palace is good, if not transcendent, and some of it, by the time it reaches your table, may have gone cold or stale.
Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life.
He's a transcendent talent, but Simmons and the 76ers need to figure out how to work around that one flaw—or things won't work out the way everyone expects them to.
That being said, the pursuit of higher consciousness is our greatest priority, and we believe that a transcendent expression in any context furthers the cause of pure enlightenment that we seek.
Talk to some of those people, for whom Strat-O-Matic was both an escape and a transcendent entertainment, and the memories emerge clear and bright after years packed in storage.
The characters' devotion to the Virgin Mary — whom they call Our Lady of Chains, for the consolation she's given to generations since the days of slavery — is ecstatic, kinetic, even transcendent.
LOS ANGELES — One of Hollywood's holy grails, "Amazing Grace," capturing what is considered to be Aretha Franklin's most transcendent gospel performance, is headed to theaters 46 years after it was filmed.
She turns the insubstantial doo-wop song "Miss Celie's Pants" into a show-stopping number of liberation and joy, and the climactic anthem "I'm Here" becomes a transcendent moment of catharsis.
After enduring an emotional crash, a breakup and the death of a mentor, the Swedish star has her first album in eight years and the most transcendent song of her career.
When the war began, Whitman was despondent, but the violence of those years seemed to strengthen and clarify his faith in democracy, a faith that would take on a transcendent dimension.
The lyricism skews heavy at times, and the many side stories and voices make for a slower read, but maybe that's the point: The effect is something of a transcendent journey.
As the lead, PeiJu Chien-Pott, transcendent in a long white gown, glides to groups of women, who maintain rigid devotion, holding angular, stationary shapes or changing formation in unison packs.
The best parts of "Autumn," the most moving parts, the transcendent parts, come during Elisabeth and Daniel's conversations about words, art, life, books, the imagination, how to observe, how to be.
I feel like truth and the transcendent and the mystery — it's so elusive that whatever gets you to even the perimeter of an understanding of the mystery, I won't knock it.
It contains just four works, by artists whose identity cannot be established (plus one bonus item), but they pack enough stunning technique and transcendent authority for a blockbuster of their own.
The game is at its most transcendent and awe-inspiring when you feel as Aloy likely would: utterly lost in a world so much bigger and older than she could ever imagine.
" — and I felt that transcendent warmth I've only known once before, when a dorky high school outcast in Florida stumbled on a group of California programmers who just seemed to "get him.
She goes as far as to imply that Kahn, who as a child burned his face so badly he was disfigured for life, had done so in search of a transcendent truth.
In the early 1900s, white boxing champion Jim Jeffries for years refused to take on the ascendent and transcendent black fighter Jack Johnson—known for such flamboyant theatrics as taunting his opponents.
He insists Genesis was given to him for some transcendent reason, and on those grounds, he justifies using his power almost casually — even though, again, he accidentally sent a friend to hell.
David Boulton, a broadcaster and author, is among those who think there is no transcendent God and is even "a bit queasy about the word spiritual", preferring to call himself a humanist.
For all the intensity of these 164 days of President Trump, we haven't had a mass-casualty terrorist attack, a transcendent national-security convulsion abroad, or a harrowing disruption for the economy.
Dada thinking permeated the 20th century through Fluxus and feminism, as a transcendent practice, and it can be referenced again, as we face the decomposition of established value systems and scientific fact.
Not only do you get a raw sense of the guy, from the transcendent highs to the ultra-bleak lows, you get the actual music as a lifeblood pumping through every scene.
Cosby had been a transcendent figure in show business, coming up as a black comedian during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and winning over white audiences with a clean routine.
Despite being a transcendent figure in basketball — he is, after all, the inspiration for the N.B.A. logo — West, like James, had often been criticized for his losing record in the N.B.A. finals.
He and his partners bought a team that already had Stephen Curry, Golden State's best player and a transcendent talent who is having one of the most dominant seasons in league history.
For her, life on the Great Plains was ever a trial by fire, inflicted by nature on the settlers so that they might achieve the transcendent independence they associated with America itself.
But romance introduces a new transcendent element, hard to measure in studies or even understand, and woe to anyone who enters into a commitment without the propelling force of that deep magic.
Had WWE kept him in 2001, when he made an extremely brief appearance there—and honestly, had WWE been a different, more adventurous company back then—Samoa Joe could have been transcendent.
Set to Johann Strauss II's 1866 "The Blue Danube Waltz," which appeared in 2001, it's a captivating expression of the late director's visceral, evocative, transcendent-beyond-words mastery over the visible spectrum.
The 21990 team, largely considered the best there ever was, produced seven All-Americans, led by twins Paul and Gary Gait, two transcendent stars who revolutionized the way the sport is played.
This explanation, Crane contends, is destined to be forever incomplete, always a struggle to fathom, not because it is missing some key facts, but because it involves "attempts to encounter" the transcendent.
If Kivinen's work is essentially modern in process, and his content concerned with the contemporary, his interest lies in transcendent truths, so much so that his personal philosophy occasionally overpowers his artwork.
The Lakers, as currently constructed, are an odd team, full of young players with promise (Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram), older players with curious pasts (Michael Beasley, Lance Stephenson) and one transcendent star.
I know it looks like any other video game battle—definitely not the transcendent experience I described, but you need to understand that that's how it (and so many other moments) felt.
Though political theorists of democracy routinely speak of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence or Hamilton and Madison's Federalist Papers, Whitman's poetry of a half-century later explicates the metaphysical underpinnings of transcendent democracy.
But we know that their decision has become the single most influential legal statement of the need for confidentiality to support effective psychotherapy, which they describe as a transcendent value for society.
Neither statement — "There is no supernatural reality beyond this world" and "There is a transcendent reality beyond this material world" — can be proven empirically, nor is either self-evident to most people.
And the rapturous monologue by Adam (the young actor played by Levine) about a long session in a gay bathhouse in Prague is notable for its haunted ambivalence about transcendent, dangerous sex.
For the greater the love that face evokes, the more transcendent your experience of that person, the less it seems possible that a face, a physical face, could actually be its ground.
Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban has been looking for a transcendent point guard since J-Kidd left after the team's 2011 title; as Deron Williams' body has betrayed his talent, they're still looking.
The web is host to countless cultural artifacts — artifacts that The Art Happens Here insists are dated by time and specific to place, resisting easy notions of the internet as somehow transcendent.
But this is where Auriemma — in sizing up Stewart, in wanting for her to be truly transcendent heading toward graduation, the W.N.B.A. and the Olympics — finds himself wishing upon a more narcissistic star.
To grasp my point about Vautier's transcendent overreach, one need only to glance at the title of a key écriture word painting in this show, "Tout est art" ("All Is Art") from 1961.
Much of the credit for Golden State's Sunday victory goes to Stephen Curry, the Warriors' transcendent point guard, and his 37 points, 16 of them in a pivotal stretch of the third quarter.
Barack and Michelle Obama's time in the White House captured the national zeitgeist but appealed to black Americans in a transcendent manner that would be hard for any conventional Democratic politicians to replicate.
Ming, the No. 1 overall pick in 2002 of the Houston Rockets and a transcendent 7-foot-6 center, is recognized as much for opening the door to international stars as his statistics.
Models in dresses decorated with not just crystals and paillettes but wood shavings and tiles and scallops as light as feathers, the better to elevate the ordinary and the earthly into something transcendent.
Many fans took to social media to celebrate the win, from politicians to fellow golfers to athletes from other sports, showing the transcendent qualities that come with such a beloved figure as Woods.
Don't get me wrong: organization is good, and a chill event can be great, but I firmly believe that a party can only be really transcendent if it's just a little bit hellish.
In the age of streaming, physically searching for a record, holding it in your hands, and hearing the stylus crackle as it rests on the vinyl can feel like an unexpectedly transcendent experience.
Bobby proved slow to recognize the struggle for black equality as a transcendent movement for democracy, focusing instead on how political unrest damaged the President's legislative progress at home and embarrassed America overseas.
When a woman is made to feel sexy and adored by a male performer through him complimenting her body, or touching her provocatively, it's supposed to be a transcendent experience for the woman.
The decision to keep Curry, coupled with the good fortune that he remained healthy and grew into a transcendent player, gave Lacob and Guber's structural innovations the chance to have their desired effect.
"Transcendent states are those rare moments when you're lifted above the hustle and bustle of daily life, your sense of self fades away and you feel connected to a higher reality," Smith said.
Today marks the occasion of the only transcendent thing to occur in the world this year, besides a Lil B album and a Brand New album both coming out in the same week.
And the imposition on Winfrey plays into tropes of the "Magical Negro," a saintlike figure narrowly viewed as having transcendent, superhuman power to be harnessed for coming to the rescue of white people.
I wants to be [able] to disagree with my republican colleagues, and that means identifying that some issues are transcendent, like our democratic institutions, so we can continue to have a robust debate.
Rasplyn's strength lies in her ability to conjure transcendent atmospheres in songs like "Circle Round" and "Priestesses and Goddesses" by pairing sparse yet impactful vocals with the swell of horns, drums, and chants.
Seeing how her colorized photos have the transcendent power to take the viewer to a moment in time, hopefully her work will resonate with a new class of young minds curious about history.
This data ploy is now a salient feature of our time in that much blue chip modern and contemporary art functions as market-transcendent coinage, turning art into a vessel for storing wealth.
Before there was such a thing as free agency, back when the privilege of ownership essentially included the players along with the franchise, Dolan's imperious ways would not have cost him transcendent talent.
He had already tossed up an improbable falling-out-of-bounds, game-winning shot; snared one-handed rebounds; and wrapped Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks' transcendent star, in an iron-claw defensive embrace.
In its search for a better future, dance music likes to flirt with the idea of technology as a transcendent force for leaving the fetters of the corporeal world behind, if only briefly.
On the bench, Washington Coach Barry Trotz appreciated the moment: the Capitals' first goal in a home Stanley Cup finals game in 20 years scored by their longest-tenured player, their transcendent captain.
Latour realized he was witnessing the beginnings a seismic rhetorical shift: from scientists appealing to transcendent, capital-T Truth to touting the robust networks through which truth is, and has always been, established.
If the war against illiberalism takes place on many fronts, including the economic and the cultural, then one domain where the revanchists are clearly gaining power is in the realm of the transcendent.
She sings the arching melodic line that begins Strauss's transcendent trio with seamless phrasing and ethereal sound, her more mature voice blending poignantly with the youthful colorings of Ms. Morley and Ms. Garanca.
At the end we're left with an overwhelming sense of art's transcendent nature, its quasi-magical power to wash the dust of daily life off our souls, as the old saying has it.
" Djokovic, who will play David Goffin in the quarterfinals, did not express such transcendent feelings, but said he thought that the field remained daunted by "everything that we have achieved in our careers.
" Djokovic, who will play David Goffin in the quarterfinals, did not express such transcendent feelings, but said he thought that the field remained daunted by "everything that we have achieved in our careers.
So we're told that Harper, an intense and seemingly transcendent young star, is less than he appears because his WAR rating last year (wins above replacement and a rather subjective statistic) was low.
Fricke was the second person to own a Moog Synthesizer, and composed the score to Aguirre using the Moog and a tape replay keyboard similar to the Mellotron to create its eerie, transcendent theme.
See, festivals have always been places where people would come to participate in the euphoric and often transcendent power of music, which happens to be wielded most effectively when experienced in a huge crowd.
I know he views himself as a transcendent figure who is working to stop Trump from his worst impulses, but when you look at the results he's been completely ineffective at that as well.
She would have to find a transcendent message of her own that rose above Democratic constituent service and spoke to the right people in the right states to take the fight to Trump's underbelly.
At a glance, his stubborn behavior and controversy courting may seem brash and even strange for a man who in the past has gushed about how dominant and transcendent of an athlete Williams is.
Having scratched his internet itch with this spring's enjoyable if not-quite-transcendent Lo and Behold, the 74-year-old LA-based, Bavaria-born filmmaker is firmly back in his natural element: the elements.
This is a service, because we've created a cult of genius that makes genius transcendent of our humanity rather than fundamental to it, undimmed until we croak out "More light!" at our dying moment.
And while I appreciate Mr. McCarthy's attempts to show us the transcendent beauty of the world as he sees it, I'm afraid I do not always respond in the same ways that he does.
That's the exact mark in which "Provider," one of a few lovely loosies that Frank Ocean released in 2017, goes from Good to Great—from a nice melody to something more weighty and transcendent.
It not only dares to take the romantic and emotional lives of gay men seriously — a rarity on TV — but in its most deeply felt episodes, it features some of TV's most transcendent filmmaking.
The rest of his work seems to have disappeared into the abyss, relatively undocumented, but the genius he bestowed on Bowie's face helped transform the rock star into the transcendent creature he became onstage.
The Los Angeles songwriter's debut single "Cry For Another" felt like a time capsule to the heyday of '70s reggae, honing in with such impressive detail that the references to Jamaican music were transcendent.
The Hawks represent the last best hope for a team without a transcendent talent to go all the way, or at least all the way to a six-game series in the Conference Finals.
Sidney Crosby was in the midst of another memorable playoff run before a cross-check to the head has the Pittsburgh Penguins' transcendent superstar in an all-to-familiar place: the NHL's concussion protocol.
Unwilling to caricature belief, Crane strives to offer an accurate picture to his fellow unbelievers, distilling the religious worldview into a combination of a sense of the transcendent and an identification with a community.
Seen in those terms, "Tina" — which has a book by the American playwright Katori Hall, with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins — is an act of canonization for its sorely tried but ultimately transcendent star.
Those who witnessed the transcendent Úlfsmessa performance at the 2016 edition of Roadburn still speak of these Icelandic acts with a certain awe, so the impact of this impending performance is hard to understate.
When you're able to see a student's SAT score and then compare it to the SAT scores of the other students at the school, that can be powerful to identify a truly transcendent student.
The master of media art created works that are as ephemeral as they are transcendent, constructed out of TV sets and recording devices that are no longer manufactured and, needless to say, generally irreplaceable.
Shiffrin may yet be a transcendent talent who sets a host of Olympic medal records, but is anyone else in the American ski racing community going to rise up and give her a hand?
He also could have soaked up the applause like so many great athletes and coasted on what he did best, but his hunger elevated him to become a transcendent star who exceeded his sport.
In the end, these stories are less about didactic scientific explanations or transcendent language and more about how human beings respond to immensely challenging ailments that we don't understand very well if at all.
But in Beyoncé's hands, it feels positively transcendent — especially considering her iconic performance at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, when she revealed her first pregnancy onstage after nailing the song's four key changes.
If you are just a middle-aged dude with decent habits and one transcendent skill that you are burying under a moraine of Long John Silver's crispies, how long can you make it work?
On the other—like all of Toubin's parties when I'm not being a grump—it was a vibrant community of true believers in the transcendent power of the beautiful dead language of Rock and Roll.
As transcendent a talent as Asuka is, it's worth looking at where the last crop of feted women's wrestlers from NXT are right now if we want an idea of where Asuka may end up.
But in a best-case scenario, we'll be looking back in 20 years from some new plateau of immersiveness, trying to remember why touching a gritty wall in a headset seemed like a transcendent experience.
Everyone knows transcendent household names like LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo, but, in an open race, Vucevic currently exists as a respectable choice for the league's most discerning fans, those who also enjoy being different.
In that ancient mystery religion, remember, the earth was created by a malevolent demiurge, while a transcendent God dwells, inaccessible, in a realm of light, unknowable except by those who receive a special, secret revelation.
In the show's most transcendent sequences—like one in which Nathan helps a bar owner flout smoking laws by redefining her tavern as a play—it's downright profound, exploring the line between behavior and performance.
Nike likely hopes that Williamson could wind up being another transcendent star like Michael Jordan, the six-time NBA champ for the Chicago Bulls who is now principal owner of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets franchise.
Even though they added Kevin Durant, Golden State isn't built on the model of singular role players orbiting a transcendent star; instead they're a collection of interchangeable stars with no center, all orbiting each other.
"Namouna" is one of Mr. Ratmansky's finest works for New York City Ballet, where, it should be noted, he has choreographed several transcendent ballets, though he is the artist in residence at American Ballet Theater.
"The Transcendent Body" examines the ways in which humanity has used jewelry to mediate between the heavenly and earthly planes, as when pilgrims in India make bejeweled offerings to the Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati.
Of all symbols of identity, only 'American' has succeeded in uniting nationality with universality, civic and spiritual selfhood, sacred and secular history, the country's past and the paradise to be, in a single transcendent ideal.
In writing about Lonzo Ball's transcendent and transcendently Summer League-y Summer League earlier this week, I was reminded of the moment during the 2008 Las Vegas Summer League when Nate Robinson's jersey was retired.
Which, as much as anything having to do with a promising redshirt quarterback or the latest transient and transcendent 20-year-old linebacker, is the journey some significant portion of college football fans care about most.
"From the moment he was drafted, Stephen has been far more than just a pitcher for our organization, and his talent is transcendent; the numbers speak for themselves," said Mike Rizzo, general manager for the Nationals.
In all iterations, the women who recur in Martin's portraits exemplify what she calls "the great mother icon," a heroic representation of Black women and the spiritual presences that walk beside them, simultaneously ordinary and transcendent.
The idea is that only Microsoft, with its top-of-class HoloLens tech, is capable of offering both augmented reality and virtual reality in the same transcendent device (one manufactured in various flavors by Microsoft partners).
For the time being, virtual reality needs to move away from being billed as some sort of transcendent awakening wrapped in an ethical enigma, instead of what it is right now, just some really cool shit.
The 29-pound Connecticut native has been the nation's best true freshman tailback outside of Wisconsin's transcendent Jonathan Taylor, routinely blasting through piles en route to 22,239 rushing yards and ten rushing touchdowns on 245 carries.
There are transcendent Quake and Duke Nukem players who never ran into any significant financial rewards for their efforts, simply because they were peaking at a time where the scene wasn't as comprehensive or well funded.
You don't have be a brilliant sociologist of religion or cultural-studies buff to see the games as one more expression (perhaps the most ambitious, in worldly terms, ever organised) of humanity's yearning for the transcendent.
The best way to see the shortcomings of this position is through Siri, the voice assistant that is Apple's best chance to create the kind of transcendent, cross-device experience that its competitors are now pushing.
Seeing a film on 70mm is a transcendent experience for the senses, but the expenses and scarcity of equipment required for projection have been prohibitive for most theaters that would like to give it a whirl.
The finding underscores a growing sense that meaningful cultural encounters have less to do with engaging in a specific activity, like seeing a great painting or hearing a symphony, than in stoking transcendent ideas and emotions.
As a purported once and future customer, and as the Louisiana-Pacific plyboard of celebrity endorsers, Shaquille O'Neal is an all-too perfect fit for The General, and the results are at once terrible and transcendent.
This white act transforms into a black space inhabited by Japanese duo AyaBambi who, dressed in Wong's angular designs and transcendent head-pieces, perform their characteristic sharp-as-knives technique and otherworldly symmetrical swipes and spins.
Imagine … you're on an plane to a palm-tree-peppered island, you can hear the podcast playing in your headphones without cranking up the volume, and there's not even the faintest scent of jet fuel. Transcendent
Morant has emerged as college basketball's most exciting player this side of Duke's Zion Williamson, the transcendent freshman who may well turn out to be the only player taken ahead of Morant in June's N.B.A. draft.
CreditCreditEirini Vourloumis for The New York Times ATHENS — He is known as the Greek Freak, a basketball player of such transcendent ability that he has become celebrated as the face of the country of his birth.
The Second Buddha, Padmasambhava ("lotus-born"), believed to have been a transcendent being, arrived on earth in the 8th century, lived as an itinerant yogi in India and initiated a powerful wave of Buddhism in Tibet.
Over the course of an afternoon here on his farm in the Finger Lakes region, he poured crazy, often-transcendent ciders that blend apples with fruits like chokeberries or sea-buckthorn fruit or local riesling grapes.
But perhaps there is a transcendent reality behind the veil of the jungle behind which the tiger hides, a supra sensible order that touches those hierophants, those believers who acknowledge the invisible and supra sensible world.
Titled "Amazing Grace" — a song that permeated the space in a haunting loop — it evoked journeys both painful and transcendent and helped develop Mr. Ward's approach to assembling found objects rich with past lives and stories.
Given the transcendent and often cringe-inducing comedy of Nathan For You and the Safdies' fast-paced and anxiety-laced filmmaking style, this is a surprising pairing that sounds better the more you think about it.
But it also deserves to be seen as the debut of a brilliant and transcendent poet, whose work conveys a gorgeous sense of self and of storytelling ability—qualities of the best literature in any tradition.
With this sweeping, spiritually minded story, Malick continues to explore the subjects that have captivated him throughout his career, exploring the human search for God and the liminal space between earthbound desires and more transcendent aspirations.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco encapsulates a lot of things—erasure of history and identity, the realities of gentrification, the transcendent nature of friendship under duress—but it makes its point in its title.
Tupac's resonant baritone, steeped in the sonic registers of the East and West Coasts where he came of age, echoed eerily across the culture and gained him global fame before death made him a transcendent icon.
The non-artists/artists in Turbulences dans les Balkans reconnect us with this deeply creative use of visual nihilism, where grappling with excess is recognized as part of the indestructible transcendent force in all homo sapiens.
But Ainge also re-established the franchise as title transcendent in 2008 after roughly two decades as an also-ran and, in doing so, outperformed as an executive the legendary Bird, who now runs the Indiana Pacers.
It's a battle through transgression and routine, cultural education and shit chat, sad lonely walks home in the early drizzle of the morning and reaching a transcendent end goal buoyed by the bare arms of your peers.
"22," a Soundcloud exclusive because of a transcendent Vybz Kartel sample that's still being cleared, coasts on a soft hook over drums that sound like they were recorded in space before floating off on psychedelic guitar riffs.
Speaking to reporters prior to Game One in Oakland, Silver said the Cavaliers were back in part due to the transcendent play of forward LeBron James and the Warriors could thank their team chemistry and potent lineup.
You could argue that the enormous power wielded by corporations is responsible for much of the world's evils, but what if that influence were used for not just a regular, banal "good" but for something truly transcendent?
They aren't ways of understanding the world, loci of transcendent shared loneliness across time, the set of practices every culture has, and without which life would have no point; they're just a source of iconic explanatory examples.
If you're a fan of the Detroit minimal techno pioneer Robert Hood, you've surely been lost in the magic of his disco and gospel-inflicted house alias Floorplan that's been churning out transcendent jams since the 90s.
That's something it shares with the original, by the way, which far from being a transcendent masterpiece of cinematic imagination was a nice paycheck for the artists involved and an easy, inoffensive night out for the audience.
He plans to retire next year after the world track and field championships in London, with one transcendent career goal remaining: to take his world record of 19.19 seconds at 200 meters below the 250-second barrier.
It's the power to avoid the muséal, the easy-sell Keep Calm and Deep House, and to testify to the historical transcendent power of your art without shitting all over history through exploiting and denigrating your influences.
Their ability to do so, they are told, is what separates them from the general public; the ability to do this seamlessly and perfectly is what separates the transcendent athletes from the merely mediocre or even great.
While it sounds like a coaching cliché, young teams really do have to learn how to close out games, and teams lacking transcendent one-on-one offensive players have to rely on trust and execution to compensate.
Jack, who likes to compare N.B.A. stars to his favorite poets (" LeBron is like Osip Mandelstam, chronically unlucky, besieged from all sides, but still transcendent in his game"), had recently allowed himself the beginnings of a beard.
NEOREALISMO: THE NEW IMAGE IN ITALY, 1932-1960 Gorgeous black-and-white photography by 60 Italian artists, working in a period and style better known here in cinema, turns everyday life into transcendent drama. Sept. 6-Dec.
Amazon's comedy set behind the scenes of a symphony orchestra will be a loving, transcendent look at the process of creating art in one scene, then be undone by strained attempts at goofy comedy in the next.
Ben Gibbard: What makes that music transcendent is when you hear a song that you swore you could have heard before, but you are reacting to it as if it's the first breath you've taken in life.
Coaches from major metropolitan areas who have experience training young elite athletes will be far more familiar with anti-doping protocols than the odd high school coach who happens to have a transcendent talent on her hands.
He helped transform the Trail Blazers (53-53), from a team known for its transcendent guard combo — Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum — into a team that seemed dangerous against any opponent in the West besides Golden State.
Yet this time, the picture is itself a transcendent achievement long thought impossible: our first image of the glowing event horizon and dark, round shadow of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.
To find that golden, shiny space in a personal relationship and to live there long enough to feel the heart crack open and experience transcendent freedom and a whole new, deeper way of seeing the other person.
With Gall's lustrous mise en scenes, the sallow and sullen bravado of the show's tiny pieces establishes a rhythm of pleasant discord that entails confronting intimidating and transcendent ideas (which foresee expiration) along with our own insignificance.
A rare instance of linear progress, with Denver Kitch the natural evolutionary step between a musical but fundamentally normal name like Darvin Traylor and the transcendent, galactic-grade expression of naming possibility that is Brock Deatherage. 30.
Some would be stinkers, some would be transcendent, but it didn't matter: The accumulated effect was the audience's sense of really understanding who the star "was" (or, at least, what their image was) and why we loved them.
In that moment, the music found on that tape, or on that record, or in the glow of the television screen past bedtime is always transcendent, and it alters the musical direction of the person who discovers it.
The sheer manic riff-dom of it all should have descended into self parody (and maybe it did!) but the end result was transcendent, with audience members not even attempting to hide a childlike glee in the cacophony.
In surveys after receiving psilocybin, the answers of about two-thirds of the participants suggested their session reached the heights of a "mystical" or "unitive" or "transcendent" experience, as measured by an established set of psychological rating scales.
The price Ali paid for his moral courage was steep, including the sacrifice of riches and reputation, and the loss of time to be able to perfect his craft at the height of his transcendent and luminous powers.
And her moments of joy — as during a visit to her parents' hometown in Mexico, when she sits under the stars while her aunt braids her hair, "her fingers cool against the back of my neck" — are transcendent.
The closest comparison for a player like Duval, however, might be Delle Donne, the Wilmington native and transcendent superstar for the University of Delaware, who was drafted second over all by the W.N.B.A.'s Chicago Sky in 2013.
More important, she struggled then — and struggles still — with a question of transcendent importance in a field of contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination as bloated as this one: Why her and not one of her many rivals?
The errand completed, Mr. Stickells soon became part of rock 'n' roll history as the roadie, and then tour manager, for Hendrix, the transcendent electric guitarist who was about to release his first single, "Hey Joe," in Britain.
She seemed to absorb me for a second, and then she thanked and blessed me in such a sincere, powerful and just plain nice way that it left me with a transcendent and unforgettable feeling of human kindness.
When we're trying to figure out one another while also sorting out our own beliefs about right, wrong, belief, doubt, and the transcendent, it looks, from 2016, like we've decided the screen is a decent place to start.
The birth in England in 21949 of Louise Brown, who was conceived through in vitro fertilization, raised a raft of moral and religious questions, none more transcendent than how to regulate the creation of human life in laboratories.
Juxtaposing things old and fresh, mundane and transcendent, in artworks that often utilize labor intensive (bordering on obsessive) techniques, Harvey's exhibition is a thoughtful marvel, one of the top shows I've encountered, so far, this new art year.
We may already live in a world where the best, most "transcendent" sex a person experiences is alone or involves a screen of some sort, and "Vipers" suggests that this can coexist with established practices like monogamy and marriage.
Attendance could promote self-discipline and a sense of meaning and purpose in life, or it could provide an experience of the transcendent, said Tyler J. VanderWeele, professor of epidemiology in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Thanks to Draymond Green's transcendent help defense and Andre Iguodala's timeless two-way value, the Warriors have redefined small ball's limitations over the past few seasons, and are more than ready to utilize it in games that matter most.
History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost transcendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is not the usual methods of political give-and-take, but an all-out crusade.
Though most people first heard Cohen's music through his 1984 song "Hallelujah," which has been popularized through covers by John Cale, Jeff Buckley, and countless others, his catalog was full of transcendent songs even until his death in 2016.
If Nichols' four previous films proved him a master of weaving small-scale drama rich with life and everyday insights, Loving is a bit of a letdown, only because it can't quite elevate the material to something equally transcendent.
Onstage, Rønnenfelt resembles a sort of drunk but highly magnetic cult leader, always on the cusp of either falling over or of a transcendent, out-of-body experience (usually both), growling low commands at the onlookers at his feet.
It would be an impressive accomplishment for anyone, but for Drucker and Ernst it's just one small part of their greatness; their love story is so transcendent that it seems almost futuristic, like it was passed backward in time.
When Richard Pryor was lacing his sets with the word "nigger," Bill Cosby was beginning to peddle respectability politics; he remained transcendent until the world was reminded of allegations that he had spent his career drugging and raping women.
A different sort of journey through realism appears in the winding career of Anthony Hernandez (born 1947), a native Angeleno who records his native city (and a few other places along the way) with an unsparing but transcendent eye.
Trump's celebrity and bluster hark back to the earlier days of another South Florida tour stop, the Inverrary Classic, when it was hosted by the television star Jackie Gleason, a more transcendent figure than any player in the field.
There are many Canadians who may only know Margaritaville as a song by the father of trop-rock Jimmy Buffett or his eponymous restaurant chain, but for members of the Toronto Maple Reefers Club, it's something far more transcendent.
There is a symbolic echo of this need for intimate self-evaluation in the final scenes of 2001, in which Bowman confronts doppelgängers of himself at various life stages, leading to his rebirth as a transcendent post-Earth entity.
The supplicants' prayers seeking mercy for victims and victims' families are believed to be a source of relief during hardships from the one who possesses all power, who is transcendent over creation yet is intimately close to humans' affairs.
So am I telling you that in addition to home schooling and wiping down all surfaces and serving nutritious meals, in addition to doing all that to the highest possible standard, you need to reach for something more transcendent?
In that moment when they embraced, James might have seen something of himself in Durant, another transcendent talent who had to endure years of frustration, and a change of scenery, before earning the validation that comes with a title.
Though there is no single definition of butoh, Hijikata envisioned it as a rejection of Japanese traditions, such as Noh and Kabuki, prioritizing the sensory over the intellectual, earthbound gestures over transcendent ones, and marginalized bodies over idealized proportions.
Once, after what felt like a transcendent and wide-ranging conversation with a Trump supporter named Danny (a former railroad worker, now on disability), I said a fond goodbye and went to interview some Hillary supporters across the street.
Country music is not immune to those sufferings, but it does, like other forms of music, suggest happier and more transcendent possibilities, a civilized alternative that tries to get beyond those tribal impulses that continually seem to beset us.
If Nintendo hopes to see sustained success with Switch beyond Breath of the Wild, a transcendent game likely to influence many others over the next decade, they should apply that sense of bold reinvention to everything in their lineup.
The claim here wasn't that there could be no morality or values; rather, it was that we had lost the transcendent justification for the Judeo-Christian worldview, and that the moral implications of this extended well beyond religion. Precisely.
Kyrie Irving, Love, and the group of outside threats up and down Cleveland's roster make James' life easier, but none come close to rivaling the effect a transcendent two-time MVP like Curry has on all his teammates, especially Durant.
This is a hint about the kind of world we are entering: it's circumscribed by the Christian faith, whose system is essentially Manichaean, a dualistic cosmology of a fallen, evil world of matter doomed until a transcendent spiritual truth rescues it.
Henri ties the total-art approach to an extension of the philosophy of Romanticism in that it proclaims a sweeping, transcendent gesamt ("total" or "whole") resolution of diversity that is all-embracing and envelopes (supposedly) all aspects of our lives.
At launch, the company says there are over 25 pieces of VR content available in the app from Baobab Studios, Discovery Communications, Las Vegas, The National Geographic Channel, RYOT, Showtime Networks, SilVR Thread, Spoke, Studio Transcendent, The Uprising Creative and Viacom.
As nutty as it may sound, part of his "Traditionalist" philosophy holds that the rise of the modern nation-state system beginning 500 years ago has built up administrative infrastructures that have taken the place of the traditional and the transcendent.
For every awkward and flat OJ Simpson interview or scene where Cohen tricked a random gallery owner into gushing over poop paintings or whatever, there was at least one transcendent moment that proved Cohen is still the greatest troll alive.
Of all the benefits that come with being a professional basketball player, the adulation and wealth and the moments of true and transcendent physical mastery, there is also that—if you do something cool, you are welcome to shimmy on it.
Using the rituals of football as his organizing principle, Chris Bachelder develops a slightly grim, deeply empathetic portrait of middle-aged, middle-class American masculinity en masse: the rivalries, the camaraderie, the disappointments, the failures, and the transcendent coming together.
It was the very same injury that had sidelined the UFC's then-transcendent superstar, Georges St-Pierre, three years earlier, and McGregor, with nothing better to do, started telling anyone who would listen that he would heal faster than GSP did.
They got cosmic, keeping half an eye on the afterlife and its implications, ending up with songs like "God Is a Number" and the literally transcendent "Get Up," allowing Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein to converse rather than scrap towards resolution.
But as if to overcompensate for the stereotypical images of Chinese immigrants — either as dirty, poor, huddled masses or hard-working, middle-class, model minorities — Crazy Rich Asians seemingly yearns for this new label to become a desirable and transcendent alternative.
Listening to him is like wrapping your mind with a Paul Johnson history, an interdisciplinary, intercultural, time-traveling tapestry of transcendent themes and truths — where evolutionary biology, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, music, art, religions, culture and myth are all interwoven.
He simply moves forward, at the head of a team that is overachieving in selfless unison, and it is all so logical and so transcendent, so intricate and so simple, that the only thing to do is shut up and watch.
Now up 215-21 in their third straight championship series and in the midst of a 403-game win streak, with two MVP winners and a transcendent finalist for Defensive Player of the Year onboard, Golden State is flat-out unfair.
He doesn't think it's out of the question, because he believes that humans are "wired" to have this kind of transcendent experience, whether through a virtual reality headset, magic mushroom, a near-death experience, or, like Blinderman proposed, meditation and mindfulness.
So, when I got my copy of Sonic Mania Plus (the enhanced edition of last year's transcendent Sonic Mania), I actually did the thing with its reversible cover and switched the perfectly fine "regular" side to the subtly wonderful Genesis side.
You know that this music is soft and comforting: it is appealing to your proclivity for a catchy tune, but is it appealing to your human sense for transcendent beauty, arguably the only thing that separates us from the animal kingdom?
Montserrat Caballé, the Spanish soprano widely counted among the last of the old-time prima donnas for the transcendent purity of her voice, the sweeping breadth of her repertory and the delirious adulation of her fans, died on Saturday in Barcelona.
Even if the words themselves offer little comfort, I take great satisfaction in this communal act of prayer; of hearing the voices of others respond to my own prayers; and of being welcomed and enveloped by a larger and transcendent community.
He outlined five major examples: Basic survival of our species, the pursuit of wealth and power, the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence, scientific advancement and pure exploration, and on a more transcendent note, the quest for God or the Divine.
Even ones that seem like "transcendent talents" in college, as Pelinka might say, might not have games that translate to the N.B.A., where the 3-point line is farther, the players are bigger and the on-court schemes are more complex.
And now, after more than a half-decade of psychoanalysis, a relationship meltdown, the death of one of her closest collaborators and four years spent working on her masterpiece — the glowing, transcendent song "Honey" — a new Robyn is ready to return.
No, what I meant to say was that what is remembered, what turns out to be transcendent, may well be the times you let the standards slip, the times the rules get bent, the times things get a little, well, goofy.
It has resurrected a powerful, almost transcendent, myth of the author as removed from the realities of time and space, a creator whose novels spring from her head armored and fully formed, a theorist of her own conditions of existence.
The Dead, Mr. McNally contends, was "the greatest American band," mixing rock, blues, folk, soul, R&B, gospel, country and jazz into an improvisational musical gumbo that was risky and uneven but that promised something different, possibly transcendent, every night.
It should be possible to find a workable accommodation between L.G.B.T. rights and religious liberty, especially since Orthodox Jews and Christians aren't trying to impose their views on others, merely preserve a space for their witness to a transcendent reality.
While it could be a mere nod to the transcendent state of nirvana — the store does sell spiritual books and products related to healing — it could also be a tie to the famous rock band with Kurt Cobain as its frontman.
The world is in luck; there are already so many beloved (albeit mostly white) TV shows that are well on their way to getting rebooted, from 21980s staples like Miami Vice to the short-lived but transcendent '288s cartoon The Jetsons.
The result is a loss of the transcendent, and a creeping sense in the public square that we are actually all alone, left only with our fear of the other or clutching at cold efficiency for a sense of control.
While cultural and political realities are central elements of the work on view, the artists in Look up here, I'm in heaven create imagery that aims to transcend the here and now to establish a more transcendent sense of self.
It is sweaty and straight-up — pop church and pop group therapy, a place for fans of the Swedish singer and songwriter, who first hit the United States in the late 1990s, to experience Robyn's transcendent, deeply addictive music beside her.
Their music is all about redemptive joy—one standout song offers the looping encouragement "you don't have to be alone"—likewise drawing on dance music's tradition of transcendent rhythmic bliss to make something pop without any necessary context beyond imparting happiness.

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