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  • "Transcendent" is a bad word among scholars in general and Greenblatt's historicists in particular, because it refers to any subject, pattern of human behavior, or existential question that is not "culturally particular" — that does not change from era to era, kingdom to kingdom.

    Shakespeare in Love, or in Context 2004

  • "Transcendent" is a bad word among scholars in general and Greenblatt's historicists in particular, because it refers to any subject, pattern of human behavior, or existential question that is not "culturally particular" — that does not change from era to era, kingdom to kingdom.

    Shakespeare in Love, or in Context 2004

  • It's not, she says, that "I believe in Transcendent Literature that escapes all place and time (in fact, quite the opposite) or because I'm a staunch Formalist/New Critic/Deconstructionist who only wants to look for linguistic patterns of meaning."

    Literary Study 2009

  • His dinner-party comrades are members of a tiny group he calls the Transcendent class of wealthy blacks, composed chiefly of athletes, singers and media darlings.

    Book Review: Eugene Robinson's 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America' Lawrence Jackson 2010

  • His dinner-party comrades are members of a tiny group he calls the Transcendent class of wealthy blacks, composed chiefly of athletes, singers and media darlings.

    Has success torn apart the black community? Lawrence Jackson 2010

  • His dinner-party comrades are members of a tiny group he calls the Transcendent class of wealthy blacks, composed chiefly of athletes, singers and media darlings.

    Book Review: Eugene Robinson's 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America' Lawrence Jackson 2010

  • And if the Tribeca Film Festival has a film called Transcendent Man you can bet pop culture is about to create that criticality.

    NY Times on The Singularity scusteister 2009

  • And if the Tribeca Film Festival has a film called Transcendent Man you can bet pop culture is about to create that criticality.

    scusteister: NY Times on The Singularity scusteister 2009

  • In this way, we blend the notion of Transcendent Oneness with being embodied here on this planet in the material realm - spirit in matter.

    Stacey Lawson: The Mythical Journey Of The Soul 2008

  • The total of which the Transcendent is the Source.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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