Word: transcender
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...movie, and the story--Huffman plays a man in the last stages of becoming a woman who has to deal with an abandoned son he never knew he had--goes rather improbably sentimental and conventional as it develops. Huffman is a strong, hardworking actress, but she doesn't quite transcend the impression that she's performing a stunt instead of playing a part...
...oppose everything George Bush does and cling to the old-time religion, or the DLC faction where you just split the difference and not notice that over a number of years the goalposts are drifting further and further to the right. What I think we have to do is transcend those categories... So, when I call up a David Sirota or write I to Daily Kos, what I'm trying to do is explain my views in the hope that it bridges some of the divides that exist in the party...
...It’s my belief that those who stand out and prosper are those who transcend hip-hop’s often typical flakiness and irresponsibility,” he says. “They come into the studio, they do the shit—quickly and easily and well...
...Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will buy Cyrano for Valentine's Day. "But everybody," she says, "should be subverted by romance now and again." McCaughrean's ease on literary...
...workshops—saw Lamb’s animated short “The Great Toy Robbery.” “I was really rolling in the aisles,” Gardner recalled this week. But Gardner was also drawn by Lamb’s ability to transcend escapist comedy. “It wasn’t just funny—it was really significantly on the mark in taking a look at our culture,” he said. While at Harvard, Lamb taught several Light and Communications workshops that influenced a number of Harvard undergraduates...