Word: transcendence
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...unstable is not that Russia is on the verge of repatriating old turf. It's that Russia is navigating between two ideas of Russia: its former Soviet self and its current shadow of that former self - a cartoonish, hopelessly upside-down mythology versus a dispiriting reality. Russia will not transcend this dichotomy until it begins building a truly original future instead of trying to cobble together a distant past...
...spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu somehow remains trapped in genre conventions. It's still basically a boxing picture, not essentially different from dozens of other movies about life in and around what...
...accept that you are the girl who never gets what she wants. Instead, become the girl who makes it happen for herself." Friedman and Yorio are generally less concerned with closing the gender gap (women earn 77� for every $1 earned by men) than with inspiring readers to transcend it. They praise a career coach who tells them, "By valuing our innate strengths of connection, nurturing, intuition, and empathy, we can reinvent what our impact and contribution is in our work...
...critique of any real life situation politically. That’s the beauty of a fable.”The questions provoked by the novel however, are certainly real. It asks searching questions about the corruptive nature of power. Tackling such a weighty subject, Dovey hopes to transcend the label of “female author.” “You’re always in danger of being framed in an uncomfortable way as a young female author, where the implication is, ‘Oh, you only got published because you’re young...
...self-defeating, since the liberal message of national improvement is profoundly more optimistic, and patriotic, than the innate conservative pessimism about the perfectibility of human nature. Obama's hopemongering is about as American as a message can get - although, in the end, it is mostly about our ability to transcend our imperfections rather than the effortless brilliance of our diversity, informality and freedom-propelled creativity...