Word: transcender
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Staggering Sight. By the time the government finishes counting the casualties, the great Ganges cyclone may rank as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century-and one of the worst of all recorded history. The figures transcend normal comprehension and numb the mind. Officially, the toll at the end of last week stood at 150,000; the only natural catastrophe to claim more lives in this century was the 1920 earthquake that killed 180,000 in Kansu, China. Yet the government concedes that its count is far from complete and that newspaper estimates...
...exaggeration, but not much of one, to say that Klee's development was a long struggle to transcend his innate tepidity. But the transcendence became real, and through it Klee reached a pitch of self-awareness such as few modern artists have achieved. "What my art probably lacks," he wrote, "is a kind of passionate humanity. I don't love animals and every sort of creature with an earthly warmth. I don't descend to them or raise them to myself. Do I radiate warmth? Coolness? There is no talk of such things when you have...
THIS FIFTH mode of immortality-the seeking of an experience to transcend life and death-seems to Lifton to be the reason for the drug culture, for revolution, for almost any of the consuming passions made have experienced since 1945. He uses the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a paradigm for man's attempt to redefine the boundaries and re-establish the concept of immortality, while defying the specter of death which the bomb has established. "The activist response to symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could...
Just as the corporate state makes its demand for compliance to its standards, the new consciousness makes its own demand for full personal responsibility for one's actions and commitments (there can be no "frank recognition" without it). When one truly affirms the right of the individual conscience to transcend the state, when one goes beyond aphoristic morality and recognizes the ambiguity of human action, when one admits that equality as an institutional principle can actually dehumanize personal experience (for example, sharing equally among unequals is a denial of individuality), the burdens and the dangers become complicated, unsettling, and extremely...
...paramount problems of our time is that we must transcend the old patterns of power politics in which nations sought to exploit every volatile situation for their own advantage or to squeeze the maximum advantage for themselves out of every negotiation...