How to Use transcendence in a Sentence

transcendence

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  • And that’s part of the transcendence and the alchemy of it.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
  • And so proud to have been a part of this transcendence.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 12 July 2022
  • The point of The High Sierra isn’t to show us the author’s moments of transcendence.
    — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
  • Dark, kind of grim, not all that catchy, full of flotsam, and full of transcendence.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The film offers transcendence in the moments when Eviah lets go of his fear of the slide.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And that's when Lexa reveals that transcendence is a choice.
    — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • In the scene, John (played by Taron Egerton) lifts the crowd in a moment of transcendence where everything clicked.
    — Foren Clark, CNN, 2 Jan. 2022
  • But buried in these pieces is a kind of insistence on joy and transcendence.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But what makes the songs work for me is that they were written in a spirit of joy, and a desire for transcendence.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The damp morning mist added a feeling of transcendence to a place of solemnity and majesty.
    — Deborah Doyle, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
  • But the film has bursts of real transcendence despite that.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
  • To get a taste for the transcendence of Starship’s bagels, a slightly salty and malty plain bagel is anything but basic.
    — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Is revenge the truest form of justice, or is true justice the transcendence of revenge?
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Our time of transcendence may be rapidly coming to an end.
    — Sarah Blackwood, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • There is, after all, some virtue in having all of this transcendence gathered up in one place.
    — S.c. Gwynne, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018
  • No longer just somewhere to make a living, work has become a place to find purpose, and, yes, even transcendence.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2022
  • The two start talking about Thomas Merton, a monk who wrote about finding transcendence.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • And just like that, your moment of transcendence has been snuffed out, 21st century style.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • And in the case of Canadian Bakin’s Q-Becco bagel sandwich, can even teeter on transcendence.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2020
  • These are songs meant for arenas, spoken in a language of pop transcendence.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2021
  • From a new travel series that finds meaning in the mundane, transcendence even where there isn’t any.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Awareness of its constructs and confines does not equal transcendence of them.
    — Brian Gresko, Longreads, 12 June 2018
  • President-elect Biden has for years stressed the pursuit of transcendence.
    — Will Johnson, STAT, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The key to achieving transcendence is acceptance of the fact that your shadow exists.
    — Svetlana Whitener, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The man stands 12 feet tall, eyes closed in what might be pain or transcendence, chains falling off his outstretched arms, scars striped across his muscled back.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The graphic sits perfectly at a nexus of horror, punk and transcendence.
    — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • When pop is practiced well, the end result is something like transcendence.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
  • Franzen writes aren’t meant to offer transcendence, but rather pleasure.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • That does not discount the impact of dance songs or high-energy music as a form of transcendence.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Flying, Miyazaki tells us, is one of the few concrete ways humans can achieve a kind of transcendence, and this transcendence is beautiful.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023

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