Example sentences for: transcendental

How can you use “transcendental” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some translators have set themselves an almost transcendental goal -- to answer the question, “What thought did the person who first recorded these words really intend to express?”

  • Years ago, when he was still a film critic, Paul Schrader wrote an evocative study of the directors Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer that he called Transcendental Style in Cinema . How odd that the style of Schrader's new movie, Affliction , is as torturously untranscendent as a work of cinema can get.

  • New York 's Mark Stevens perceives transcendental old-age art about old age itself: "[H]e seems to empty out his art, like the man who wants to give everything away before he dies."

  • Where other filmmakers have tried to assert that showmanship somehow precludes belief, Duvall demonstrates how showmanship and belief can reinforce and even galvanize each other, the former driving the latter to transcendental heights.

  • Wilson makes the case that human morality is "empirical" law that evolved biologically, not "transcendental" law that exists separate from human history.


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