Sentence examples for never transcended from inspiring English sources

Obligation to perform one's scriptural duties is never transcended.

As an impresario, he never transcended his status as a lowbrow purveyor of music hall entertainments featuring topless showgirls.

A Place Called Bad demonstrates both why they garnered cult adoration, and why they never transcended it.

Thomas Chan, a China scholar at the University of Hong Kong, noted that while he was outspoken, Mr. Hu never transcended the process of collective decision-making.

Mr. Woodward's move matches up one of the magazine world's most freewheeling art directors with a magazine that has never transcended a kind of generic, gelled Condé Nast aesthetic.

Mr. Shattuck cites unflattering critical judgments on Proust from the likes of Aldous Huxley and Henry James to the effect that Proust's style was slack to the point of incoherence and that his novel never transcended the decadence and ennui that it describes.

Maggie's profession, ophthalmology, never transcends hazy metaphor.

Ms. Greer never transcends her character's function as a visitor-from-another-planet plot device.

But we don't, and in Dead Baby Frog, Ib never transcends his two monstrous dimensions.

More troublesome, the book never quite comes alive, never transcends its author's meticulous calculations.

Worse, its two stars, Mr. Tucker and Rachael Leigh Cook, never transcend their characters' limitations to become compelling.