Word: transcendental
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Perhaps it was simply a matter of chance, a random throw of the molecular dice. Perhaps some greater, transcendent force was at work in the earth's primeval seas. Yet from the moment of its miraculous genesis three billion years ago, life has been continually renewing and remaking itself, an...
Catch-22. Alan Arkin was transcendent in Mike Nichols' perverse adaptation, which missed the comedy but captured the pure terror of the Joseph Heller novel.
Encyclopedic Statement. Runge, who died in 1810 at the age of 33, shared this passion for nature's spirit. His large Morning (1808-10) was one of an unfinished cycle of panels on the theme of "The Four Times of Day." Its knotty allegories have never been fully deciphered...
Tully, the older of the fighting pair, fights twice in the course of the novel, first with Munger in a YMCA gym and then with a shrewd Mexican before a complacent chicano crowd. Between thesetwo smallest of small-time bouts, he reflects on his past and present rootlessness, and satisfies...
The Guard itself became the transcendent issue, and it never did disperse the crowd as it set out to do.