Word: transcendentalize
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What makes the interior of Valrhona’s headquarters so alluring? Consuming one of the vaunted company’s carefully-crafted chocolates is a transcendent experience for Rosenblum and fellow connoisseurs. When Rosenblum samples a Valrhona specimen in a Paris shop, he writes: “A subtle...
Often, however, Seagrave's thesis tyrannizes his judgment, and his narrative tapestry reveals too insistent a design. Chiang's anti-Communist policy was in large part an act of self-defense. Had Mao's forces won in the '30s, Chiang and his colleagues would surely have been executed. Estimates of...
But I’ll tell you this much—watch the puppet’s facial expressions with every bit of attention you’ve got. They capture that cocktail of crushing and transcendent feelings you get when you’re horribly stress-exhausted or intoxicated...
It's midnight, long past bedtime for most children. But in a poor, war-ravaged neighborhood of Kabul, more than 300 men are gathered at a wedding party to listen to the singing of Mirwais Najrabi, a pale, chestnut-haired 13-year-old. He performs in an open courtyard, under...
It is of some comfort, when we wait for those we love to die, to celebrate the way they lived. For Christians this is a season of mystery and grace, and during the final days, John Paul II gave his people one last gift: the message of his visible pain...