Word: transcender
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everyday joys of living, from the umpteenth retelling of a beloved family anecdote to a mock- scandalized peek through the window at the neighbors, from the swing of a baseball bat to the cradling of a newborn child. Like the blues music he threads through them, his plays transcend ethnicity. Playgoers of any race who come as emotional tourists depart realizing they have seen themselves reflected onstage...
Occasionally an athlete will transcend his limitations and capture the imagination of those assembled, electronically and personally. This year's winner at that end of the Games is a 24-year-old plasterer from Cheltenham, England. Michael Edwards, also known as "Eddie the Eagle," points his toes downslope and fearlessly launches himself on some of the shortest flights known to man. A sweet-tempered cross between fictional Ski Jumpers Spuds MacKenzie and Bob Uecker, Edwards finished dead last (but at least not dead) in the 70-meter jump. He scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning...
...this reflects Bell's emphasis on long-term process rather than immediate result. His goal is less to find legal remedies to the immediate problems confronting Blacks than it is for America somehow to transcend its racist past and present through its own legal practices...
MOST MENTALLY ill don't need the government to come to get them; their needs transcend buildings and beds. What they require is more community care. Employers should have incentives to hire, train and supervise the mentally ill. Day-care facilities, with psychiatric help, medical services and job training, must be more accessible. Now they are few and far apart, and often funding doesn't follow patients to the most convenient facilities...
...Leverett House production manages to transcend the play's ludicrous premise and make its audience laugh. Part of the reason is that the play does have some indestructible one-liners, like Mortimer's "Insanity runs in my family. In fact, it practically gallops." Even the relentless attacks on theater critics are funny. Really...