Thus, one of Hartshorne's preferred definitions of God: "the self-surpassing surpasser of all" (Hartshorne 1948, 20).
On the contrary, a certain self-surpassing is built into the system itself.
Directors are as self-dramatizing as actors; the collaboration between Dietrich and Sternberg turned them both into self-surpassing legends.
Equally consequential were the humane innovations that also followed in Europe: the Renaissance tie of faith to reason; the Reformation embrace of religious self-criticism; the Enlightenment elevation of the individual; modernity's invention of democratic liberalism; the late-twentieth-century repudiation of interstate violence; the self-surpassing of nationalism into a larger political hope.
Rather, truth defines itself in process, as revision, correction, and self-surpassing.
This summer is a time of self-surpassing efforts for actors and directors alike.
This year, the self-surpassing commercial exploitation of the Academy Awards far outran the world's interest in them.
What makes the difference is the promise that transcendence is less about angels in Heaven than about self-surpassing humans on Earth.
Plenty of great artists plumb the soul's depths without recourse to drugs or alcohol, but it's naïve to discount the connection between artistic ecstasies, self-surpassing exertions, uncommonly powerful desires, and altered states of consciousness.
There, Desplechin indulges in a melodramatic distortion, by means of the formidable Mathieu Amalric's powers of performance, that suggests the impacted rage and even self-tormenting, self-flaying, self-surpassing fury that Desplechin softens, conceals, denies throughout the film.
