Word: transcender
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...luck he can play with.' As usual," continued Hart, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Clinton has already admitted an overeagerness to please, an aversion to saying anything that could cause people to dislike him. If he doesn't transcend that foible quickly, his luck may run out on Nov. 3, and he will be back in Little Rock with no one to blame but himself...
...Team forgot its differences long enough to enjoy one last triumph, and the Americans had good reason to cheer the Dream Team, as their swimmers, boxers, spikers and pitchers failed to live up to every high expectation. The Kenyans, as usual, showed all comers how to carry themselves -- and transcend themselves -- with grace...
...answer to some of these problems. And I'm not going to forget the American family. And if they don't understand that in Rio, too bad." To Bush's critics, that is the kind of us- against-the-world attitude that the Earth Summit was supposed to transcend...
...cerebral subject readable, and real. And they will be touched, too, by a moving breakthrough at the end that suggests Swift, unlike many of his contemporaries, really does believe that "no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling." Ever After is a supremely intelligent novel about the need to transcend intelligence...
...book about politics or culture, such glorification of the past might truly be pernicious, as was the case with Reaganism. Since, unlike politics, baseball will never resurrect the substance of by-gone eras, the effect is merely sad. Wilber has interviewed a few legitimate baseball stars, men whose achievements transcend the decade in which they played. But even subjects such as Ted Williams seem unfocused; they deliver vague platitudes to the glory of their times rather than providing the crisp details of specific experiences that enliven good baseball books. David Halberstam understood this, and this is why his interviews with...