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“Not trancendent”, but the best inthe area [Ed Levine Eats]
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That trancendent compassion shines through The Welsh Girl, a novel that is both thought-provoking and emotionally enthralling.
The Welsh Girl: Summary and book reviews of The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies. 2007
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Even if there is no trancendent order in the universe, isn't the charade of a justifiable morality a vital bulwark against at best anomie, and at worst a nihilistic anarchy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Good lord - this reminds me of how everyone who knew *anything* thought that Andy Kaufman was trancendent comedy.
About my proposed Titus recording. Ann Althouse 2009
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The Associated Press uncritically quotes this trancendent piece of idiocy uttered by Rudy Giuliani at an event last night:
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If you listened closely during the various speeches at the RNC convention, you'll notice that the times when the crowd was most animated was when Republican rage was focused on what Sen. John McCain calls the "trancendent challenge of our time: the threat of radical Islamic terrorism."
Shahed Amanullah: Looking at the RNC Through Muslim Eyes 2008
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The power of language becomes addictingly trancendent, HBM.
Vox | Her Bad Mother 2006
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In my view that would indicate that memory too has a trancendent quality.
The Memory Hole 2005
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Will she understand that just because I will never be collected in museums or talked about in Art History classes like Sally Mann or Jock Sturgis, it didn't diminish my desire to make trancendent photographs of my experience here on Earth, as banal as it may be?
Exposed 2007
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A major disanalogy between the ID hypothesis and other scientific hypotheses is that the ID hypothesis fails to be scientifically tractable, at least insofar as the appeal to a trancendent intelligent agent as the designer: that is, an agent that transcends the confines of this universe.
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