Word: transcends
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...hills, rivers, fogs, and wildlife, is a vital presence. Pancake constantly includes owls, opossums, and snakes, ironweed and sycamores: even buried bones and fossils in describing the lives he portrays. The situations of his strong. reticent, and trapped characters embody the unique milieu, but the problems they struggle with transcend it to reach universality...
...mandatory criticism session during the Hundred Flowers movement. Then that movement became the Anti-Rightist movement, and her superior got revenge by labelling her a rightist, Liang's father divorced her and the children shunned her to avoid being politically "questionable", but the party which claimed to transcend family ties would not ignore them. The father's accusers used his ex-wife as evidence against him later, and when the sister proved her loyalty enough to become a Red Guard member, she faced the anguish of finding that her new political group persecuted families such as hers. Always, the Liangs...
...White House had decided it wanted to impose a "toy tax" before Christmas. After almost 30 straight hours of throbbing confusion, the chaplain rose to offer a prayer. "Father in heaven, the Senators are very weary in body and mind," he said. "In such circumstances, heat tends to transcend light, minds function with less discernment and precision...
...place one has never seen can be annoying oftenulienating Songs and books about Los Angeles are particularly frustrating in this way. Writers often proceed to glorify the city without explaining any of the images, assuming audiences know the place right down to its exist ramps A few works transcend this subject. The Door's "L.A. Woman" goes beyond the image of a city at night and imposes a sense...
...Resplendent Quetzal," a couple's sole reason for getting married slips out from under them when their baby is stillborn. Each would like to have another baby, but the husband is afraid to ask, and the wife cannot transcend the anger she projects on him and her own guilt at the loss of the child. Instead they go to Mexico where she exploits his love of ornithology and sends him off chasing her imaginary birds, while he fantasizes about pushing her into the Aztec Sacrificial Well...