Sentence examples for could transcend from inspiring English sources

Music, for Liszt, possessed a magical power that could transcend other art-forms by becoming the sublime, otherworldly, and transcendent encounters that painting or literature could only symbolise.

Elvis could transcend his surroundings.

Wagner could transcend himself in his works.

Ironically, much of Mr. Obama's initial appeal was the hope that he could transcend these divisions.

The love of a father for a daughter could transcend prejudice, Tisa realized.

While he rarely addressed the issue directly, he seemed to embody the hope that America could transcend its divisions.

Nothing that DeFeo did could transcend that, as she must have suspected, at times, while refusing to believe it.

What it couldn't comprehend was the threat of the MP3: the idea that music could transcend physical formats.

In lieu of drugs, role-playing games taught that we could transcend the lunchroom, the school bus, the pizza parlor.

But probably no actor could transcend the turgid romantic mush stuffed into the mouths of these three.

I started thinking about whether photography could transcend other types of boundaries that hold girls back from achieving their potential.