Word: transcendentalized
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"In the past, the great arts, such as poetry and music, have attempted to be transcendent, carrying us out of ourselves for communion with something exalted and splendid. But not television. Every few minutes television reminds us that we are one with the brutes, the slaves of body processes, and...
The unfortunate term "foreign aid," the President said, implies "some sort of giveaway," but in fact the worldwide mutual-security program is "of transcendent importance" to the U.S.'s security. To discard or drastically slash the program, the President warned, would bring about a "basic impairment of free world...
Director Preminger has done well with his actors, too. David Niven is remarkable as the sort of rake that accumulates his life in his face, like a pile of dead leaves. Deborah Kerr provides one transcendent scene in which, as she overhears her man with another woman, her prim, pretty...
Sinatra acts as niftily as he sings. He is the picture of the springiest heel that ever walked himself over and fell flat on his face, and the portrait was not an easy one to draw. The objection can always be made that Frankie is only playing Sinatra, a well...
What is sin? Until relatively recently, American Protestant thought might be expected to give a simple and traditional answer to that question: sin, staining all men since the Fall, is the willful disobedience of God's law. After the theological battle between fundamentalism and liberalism, that answer was no...