I'm aware this was a boringly predictable location in which to feel the spine-shiver of something beyond words (transcendent? divine?).
Haneke's picture is gruelling, moving and finally transcendent.
And everyone is waiting in vain for the institutions that are supposed to have our best interests at heart to come up with some solution…") Some of the lyrics on his last two albums suggest a kind of transcendent Wordsworthian relationship with the natural world.
His lofty current projects include work with the Louvre and pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, and that ambition trickles down into his dancefloor engagements, which still announce techno as the ultimate transcendent form.
In Paris, jazz musicians celebrated heroin for the way in which it enabled them to hit the peaks of "transcendent relaxation" in their being and their music – this was the aesthetics of "cool".
At other times they laugh at the very notion of a transcendent god.
In "2001", the monoliths were doors of transcendent perception; in "3001" they become banal and easily dealt-with alien threats.
By incorporating stereoscopy into the way his film looks and works, he has created something that manages to be both gimmicky and transcendent.
But even more than Thomas Bernhard or W.G. Sebald, he winds and unwinds and rewinds, creating what one translator has described as "a slow lava-flow of narrative, a vast black river of type", which along the way acquires a transcendent quality of its own.
The invited guest author is a multiple medal-winning former pair skater.FOR many viewers the most lasting image provided so far by the Winter Olympics in Sochi will not be one of transcendent athletic achievement.
And he poses once again the unanswerable question that Marcel Proust raised: by what alchemy does Vermeer transmute the realistic depiction of that everyday life into something transcendent and timeless?
