Sentence examples for set to transcend from inspiring English sources

With a cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie and Viola Davis, the warsploitation-riffing, bad guy romp looks well set to transcend its relative obscurity.

In his vision, he has been the matchless pioneer of a movement set to transcend boundaries of nationality, custom and law, using WikiLeaks to tear down walls of secrecy and foster a new era of global transparency and justice.

Of the dramas, Kevin Williamson serial killer show The Following looks set to transcend its material if only because of the cast: James Purefoy as a serial killer, Kevin Bacon as the agent who comes out of retirement to catch him.

The union, which has set out to transcend such loyalties, therefore suffers from a permanent crisis of legitimacy.

This is a study which sets out to transcend the "narrow moment" of al-Qaeda.

He also sets out to transcend partisan politics and address reality.

But the Scream are back on top form, their canon is formidable and, for all the Jagger "Woo-woo!"s drifting across Loaded, Gillespie sets out to transcend any short-sighted Stones comparisons with a steely, confrontational gaze in his eye.

It's an area in which I have a little (only a little) power — to animate a character against a stage set believable enough to transcend its artifice; to play out scenarios from outside my experience, limning someone dissimilar from me with whom I nevertheless empathize".

Unlike the no less mysterious (and secretive) artist Balthus, Stanley did not "escape" a defining identity by fabricating a non-Jewish lineage; he set out instead to transcend banal circumstance by making a name for himself as the highest possible form of invisible man: first photographer, then film director.

But the setting is stunning for this restaurant, which aspires to be rooted in place and to transcend it.

The relationship between Anne and Sarah is handled with tact and compassion and Edmundson suggests, without overstating, the topical resonances of 18th-century politics: it is deeply ironic to see the Tories portrayed as the anti-war party and there is even a hint that Anne, in her piety and desire to transcend factionalism, set a pattern for modern monarchy.