There may be immigration officials behind me, and there are surely more officials up ahead, but for these few transcendent hours, no bureaucrat can touch me, and I'm happy, flying beyond reach of nationality in a sustaining sea of cloud.
An out-of-church performance by Mr. Green can be a fumbling 20 minutes short or two hours of transcendent soul.
As the spiritual leaders of Electric Forest, three days of sets from Colorado bluegrass-meets-jamtronica unit The String Cheese Incident offered fans nearly ten hours of transcendent improvisation throughout the weekend.
"If you can't do nothing but hate, why don't you go on and die and go to hell?" This thundering shared the same two-hour space with transcendent goofiness.
As he is seemingly being fitted for a championship crown to validate his moniker, there is little doubt that he is the N.B.A.'s most compelling and transcendent figure and approaching his greatest hour.
PAGE A21 Sports JAMES'S DETRACTORS BRACE FOR A TITLE After LeBron James's widely criticized departure from Cleveland, there are grudging acknowledgements from just about everywhere that he is the N.B.A.'s most compelling and transcendent figure and approaching his greatest hour as his team, the Miami Heat, play in the N.B.A. Finals.
The ballet lasts three and a half hours; the moments of transcendent beauty, like those in the "Jardin Animé," are too few and too brief.
In the authoritative hands of Sviatoslav Richter, these sonatas are at once brilliant statements of explosive, steel-girded pianism and transcendent annotations of the composer's most trying hours during World War II.
The two-hour mix touches on a spread of heart-grabbing tracks built for the hours when the night bleeds into morning—from the transcendent techno of Jon Hopkins and Daniel Avery to the IDM bloops and bleeps of Aphex Twin and Board of Canada, whose classic 1996 track "ROYGBIV," according to the tracklist, appeared as the sun was coming up. David Garber.
Just as transcendent was the ending of John Luther Adams's "Sila: The Breath of the World," an hour-long work designed for the outdoors, in which strings, wind, brass, voices, and percussion generate incrementally shifting clouds of tones based on the natural harmonic series emanating from a low B-flat.
