Word: transcendentalized
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This was not some kind of glorious transcendent moment of sport. It was not the gritty aging champion somehow finding a way to overcome the detriments of age for one more comeback. This was not a refusal to leave the game despite a crippling injury, nor was it a duel...
No, the magic of Beale’s performance cannot be captured in newspaper reviews or theatrical awards. In fact, it is with great uncertainty that I even try to represent his great achievement in words. Reviewing this Hamlet is not a matter of reviewing a character or even an...
She dedicates herself to confirming and recapturing this transcendent moment. She first gives Christianity a whirl, attending services at the Greater Love Salvation Church, "a Pentecostal millenarian revivalist congregation." And although she accepts Jesus as her Saviour, she rather quickly grows annoyed at what she sees as his unresponsiveness: "Lord...
Ask Americans today to explain the Gulf War - which, of course, occurred within the living memory of most - and many may struggle to answer. That maybe because its mythology may have collided with the reality of its outcome: We celebrated victory, and yet the "bad guy" is still in power...
And, oh, the stories. The unlikely, implacable brilliance of Louis Armstrong, a genius raised on the streets of New Orleans whose mother hooked to survive. The resilience of Duke Ellington, born into comparative comfort, who would rise above race and dwell, as he liked to say, "beyond category," in a...