The image of Pistorius as having transcended disability has been largely shattered by his murder trial.
He is in the peculiar position of having transcended his sport.
The questionnaire measures feelings of unity, sacredness, ineffability, peace and joy, as well as the impression of having transcended space and time and the "noetic sense" that the experience has disclosed some objective truth about reality.
It gets better — just the message that the columnist Dan Savage has reinforced, amid the heartbreaking rash of recent suicides by gay teenagers, with his recent YouTube campaign, which invites gay adults to tell stories about having transcended the tortures of youth.
Ms. McElderry came to be called the grande dame of children's publishing, having transcended the typical anonymity of book editors by riding the crest of the postwar baby boom, helping to provide it with a new breed of engaging, nonpatronizing literature.
She was depicted as having transcended her human limits, making it difficult to depict her as a normal person.
