The phrase "transcendent value" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that has moral, spiritual, or metaphysical worth beyond what is visible or physical. For example, "The transcendent value of education is reflected in its role in bringing about social progress."
Fiscal discipline, in short, is no longer the most transcendent value on Capitol Hill.
(She's probably harder on herself than we are on her — which may also be part of her innocence, the part that has a transcendent value).
But that tradition in love-literature which sets a transcendent value on love, merging the love-object with divinity, is only one element in a developing complex whole.
Jonathan Kalb, the dramaturge for this production, explained, "These days, we're mired in the situational, the specific, but Wilder is searching for transcendent value and universal truth.
For free expressionof transcendent value to all society, and not merely to those exercising their rights might be the loser.' Id., at 486, 85 S.Ct. at 1121.
He thought the emerging nationalism of his day represented one such ominous surrogate god, in which the nation-state would be invested with transcendent value and purpose.
Critics regarded the turn as a betrayal of transcendent values in favor of an overemphasis on the secular world.
The Paul Liebrandt of 2009 is a high priest of hospitality, completely dedicated to the transcendent values of flavor, technique and craftsmanship.
The transcendent values of Bach's music -- its melodic beauty, its contrapuntal strength, its rhythmic vitality, its harmonic profundity -- speak across time, in a universal language, to a multitude of composers.
For example, in a disenchanted world, public life is on the wane because transcendent values are no longer to be found in community or polity; rather, people seek emotional fulfillment in private relations.
He used this theory to argue that metaphysical talk about God, the cosmos, or "transcendent values" was not merely, as earlier empiricists had maintained, excessively conjectural but literally meaningless.
