The willingness of Americans to spend, whatever the size of their debts, seems to transcend the rules of economics.
It is the nature of faith, even "little faith," to want to transcend the normal "rules" and see what possibilities might be brought into being.
I've never encountered an artist who so transcends the rules he sets himself, who seems so parsimonious on paper and so generous in the gallery.
(Besides, Kembra is a sex goddess, and thereby transcends the rules of representation).
This debate transcends the rules of the game, however, as perfectly exemplified by Chris Sutton's column in The Daily Mail.
If there was a time when he had seemed other than human – a man whose celebrity transcended the normal rules of humanity – he was, when he died, a broken and tragically mortal man.
His multiple interests and loyalties raise interesting ethical issues in this new age when individual journalists can become brands of their own, stars who seem to transcend the old rules that sharply limited outside activity and demanded an overriding obligation to The Times and its readers.
But maybe, if we stretch our minds a little and transcend the traditional rules of marketing, we can see things afresh.
You're not just assuming the person is just like you or that you know best, which is how the platinum rule transcends the golden rule.
Sports are vast and relatively unchanging rule sets that transcend the generations, and their rules often become colloquial terms of reference.
The Rev. Antoni Ucerler, a Jesuit historian who has consulted on the film with Scorsese and his production team, points out that it was the loyalty of local Christians to a "divine Lord" that transcended the iron rule of the Tokugawa shoguns that authorities feared most.
