Word: transcendentalized
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The single most dazzling object in the show is neither a reliquary nor a painting, nor even a manuscript illumination. It is the chalice made by the Sienese goldsmith Guccio di Mannaia, presented to the Franciscans by Pope Nicholas IV in the late 13th century. In design and workmanship it...
The title suggests an almost puzzling degree of transcendence, particularly for a film so grounded in the nitty-gritty of day-to-day existence and friendship. But we can call this depiction of straightforward humanity transcendent if we consider the implicitly condescending subhumanity of much schlock oh, the heady effluvia...
Jesus Christ was a carpenter. Bob Hampton is a handyman. Actually, he's an aspiring but discouraged artist spending a summer in Los Angeles as a Mr. Fix-It, but Christ haunts this novel because Bob develops an odd knack for transforming the lives of those he works for--the...
The same can be said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather...
3 LINDBERGH His 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic made him, at 25, the most famous person on the planet. A. Scott Berg records what happened to the aviator before, during and after his transcendent triumph. The later life proves especially poignant, not only because of his child's murder...