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Word: transcends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...signing. But there is something more here, an ironic intelligence, a fierce but not distancing wit, that the movies, with their famous ability to photograph thought, discover in very few performances. Children of a Lesser God, though given a handsome openness in Director Haines' production, cannot transcend the banalities of the play. But Matlin does. She is, one might say, a miracle worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle Worker: CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...other lasting benefits. Managing the North Korean challenge could usher in a new era of security cooperation in North Asia and allow China and Japan to resolve age-old differences and begin dealing with each other with a measure of trust. It's time for these two giants to transcend their discord and instead focus on the long-term stability of their region. When elephants fight, no one wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dangerous Distraction | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...find a way to unite clarity, specificity, and immediacy in his lyrics—usually one is present; rarely all three—and if Wilkins and Kennedy can accept that volume and shock are not always synonymous with impact, A + P can develop a sound good enough to transcend self-reference...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: A + P | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...It’s a testament to the BMF and the respect that we have in the community that we transcend racial boundaries,” says Owusu-Kesse. “[But] I was completely honest with them when they asked to join, that I’m not going shift my discussions or my agenda from being black-specific to being minority-specific…if you are dedicated to what we believe and the [plight of the] black people, then I welcome...

Author: By Victoria Kim and Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: At Last, a Presence | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

What was the purpose of such headgear, beyond protection, identification and impressing the enemy? To transform, as the sculptor Isamu Noguchi pregnantly suggests in a short introduction to the catalog; to turn the mask, the effigy, into the man; to transcend death in the moment of challenging it. If one can imagine a philosophical hat, the conspicuous helmet would be it. --By Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Move Over, Darth Vader | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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