Word: transcendentalize
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"My CO application was primarily religious. Being an unorthodox, kind of small letter 'c' christian--or Judeo-Christian--and officially being a Unitarian, it's not easy to answer simply 'yes' or 'no' to whether I believe in a Supreme Being. I tried to discuss something like a Supreme Being...
THE COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long.
Ironically, the film's most stirring moments are not its overheated love scenes but the brief encounters between Burton and Guinness. In one, Guinness, a short day's journey from death, recounts his wasted life of lies in a graveyard retreat. Priestlike, Burton answers the tortured confession with...
Most of the demonstrators probably would have been content with picketing or some other form of non-obstructive protest. That would have been acceptable. But some of the leaders were determined to take more radical action. There is nothing sacrosanct about this country's laws, but only a transcendent moral...
With Relevant Data. What this means, argues Pike, is that man today is forced to create his own creeds and dogmas on the empirical basis of what can be proved factually. In line with his formula, he suggests that faith should start not with speculations about God but with the...