Word: transcender
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Should we shift money from other areas to ensure that all people receive the best care available? Should money be the sole determinant for apportioning health care, as it is for so many other commodities--or does health care, by its very nature, transcend mere monetary concerns? Should age play a part in determining who receives a kidney or heart transplant? People have a right to know how the health care debate will fundamentally change the face of health care...
...imagine him thinking of time and twigs. "In Wildness is the preservation of the World," he writes, confident and concise. If he could transcend death and live today, he would write it again, in a still larger and bolder hand, on recycled paper. In Wildness (he would retain the capital) is the preservation of the World...
...Supreme Court has limited "rights" that are supposedly fundamental. Even freedom of speech is not absolute. The court has specifically prohibited "fighting words," the case of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater being the least controversial example. The Court has ruled that the public has certain interests which transcend the rights of the individual...
...general qualities," Gubbins said, "are someone who will transcend a lot of different groups, is very organized, has a lot of enthusiasm and is an honest person with a lot of experience who is really enthusiastic about the College...
...There's almost no vulnerability about him, and that quality was what kept Cagney in a viewer's good graces. It is why Cagney's hoodlums seemed touched by tragedy, while Carlito seems touched only by technique. There is an irony here: an actor's bruising desire to transcend type is what prevents a very ambitious and otherwise skillful movie from transcending its genre...