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  • Visiting Yosemite was a transcendent experience.
  • It was a transcendent event in my life.
  • And then he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in search of raw, transcendent experience.  (source)
    transcendent = beyond the ordinary
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  • Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent.  (source)
    transcendent = surpassing usual limits of excellence
  • It was an experience of transcendence.  (source)
    transcendence = beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
  • A vision—a transcendently seductive vision of a Mexican girl arose before her.†  (source)
  • When I look down from this transcendency, how beautiful are even the crumbled relics of bread!†  (source)
  • And there is often a sense of transcendent claustrophobia, of a shortening horizon, and always a sense of struggle against the tyranny of circumstance—often depicted as a never named sinister male figure who looms.  (source)
    transcendent = beyond the ordinary
  • From this ever-changing world arose the Empire of the Scholars, strongest among men, dedicated to their creed: Through knowledge, transcendence.  (source)
    transcendence = surpassing usual limits of excellence
  • The inspiration—I can call it by no other name—was that I felt how voluntarily, how transcendently, I MIGHT.†  (source)
  • Such terms are only clues to the transcendency.†  (source)
  • Something had happened to my playing in that audition; I had broken through some invisible barrier and could finally play the pieces like I heard them being played in my head, and the result had been something transcendent: the mental and physical, the technical and emotional sides of my abilities all finally blending.  (source)
  • I felt myself rising, light-headed with transcendence, an overflowing fountain.†  (source)
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