Example sentences for: untranscendent

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

  • Late in Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut , there's a harsh bit of piano music by the Hungarian-born composer György Ligeti: one high note plinking over and over, first slow, then hard and fast and cruelly untranscendent.

  • What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.

  • He was a maestro, all right, but of the sadistic kind, and the movie's laughs didn't leaven its punishingly untranscendent misery--they condensed it.

  • 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.

  • As I watched American Movie , a lot of it struck me as untranscendent misery.


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