A major component of this critique involves illuminating the basis in reason for our efforts to draw erroneous metaphysical conclusions (to employ concepts "transcendentally"), despite the fact that such use has already been shown (in the Transcendental Analytic) to be illicit.
Romantics tended to regard the writing of poetry as a transcendentally important activity, closely related to the creative perception of meaning in the world.
The first step, of course, is to be a talented writer, although you don't have to be transcendentally great ("Longevity sets a high standard," Jackson writes, but it's "not stratospheric").
At the end, the band held a pause, then blasted back into music, transcendentally.
Livingston had a dedicated music room, with two grand pianos, and a dark waiting room, where you endured the last moments of preceding lessons — other seven-year-olds playing their Clementi and Kabalevsky, music so transcendentally mediocre that it is thought a child cannot ruin it.
Cave's new CD, "No More Shall We Part," is, in patches, so transcendentally beautiful that one can be forgiven a small spasm of impatience: if he had this in him, why did he waste all those years shouting at people? (One possible answer may involve drugs; Cave, at an earlier stage of his career, had a much publicized habit, and one or two attendant legal problems).
His palate was nothing if not democratic: pickles, corn curls, and hot dogs receive as much consideration as a meal at La Cote Basque (though the latter, he reports, is "transcendentally better than normal food — like suddenly hearing Mozart come through a Muzak system").
The apotheosis of this trend may be David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, "The Pale King," which revolves around an I.R.S. tax-processing center and had critics squinting to see what he might have been trying to tell us about the transcendentally stultifying force that is work.
The song might be described as transcendentally petty.
I was eavesdropping as they talked about one of William Eggleston's 36 transcendentally beautiful photographs from the 1970s and early '80s in "At War With the Obvious," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
