Word: transcender
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...Genre, some say, is nothing but a set of expectations, and the great works are those which transcend those expectations. Runaway Bride, unfortunately, is a genre piece that does its transcending in all the wrong places. It begins, intriguingly enough, as a modern day fairy tale. In any good fairy tale, evil is summarized and allegorized by a single villain, but Runaway Bride splits evil in two and then sets its male and female halves at one another's throats. Julia Roberts as Maggie Carpenter is everything a man can fear in a woman: pretty and sweet but a heartbreaker...
...many of us, it feels as though we have been at Harvard for eight months already. Many of these friendships transcend the Internet and have become real bonds, the sort about which so many people have spoken over the past few days...
...never will be. I say this not because it is true or even possible but because it is what I still want to believe. I do not want to fall into a small corner of the universe and live out my days and nights there, always longing to transcend my narrow existence but never seeing...
...first look, let alone a second one. So, I decided to write about those athletes with that little extra genetic or motivational boost. But...it simply was not the same. Writing about sports and being a part of the game are different things; the lessons learned from competing transcend what actually occurs on the playing field...
...Washington, a city where one's identity is determined by party affiliation, he has been able to transcend--and perhaps defy--political boundaries, working for both Republicans and Democrats alike...