Sentence examples for transcending death from inspiring English sources

He grows to manhood an impotent weakling whose only hope of transcending death is to tell the story of himself and his family.

Losing and finding, he shows us love between fathers and sons as the most powerful and enduring in life, capable of transcending death, time, folly and a Hollywood childhood.

While Kenneth Hesketh's Graven Image dealt with the idea of the memento mori, in which the portrait of a living person also contains their skull, with Dutilleux's Le Temps l'horloge, setting poems by Jean Tardieu, Robert Desnos and finally Baudelaire, came the feeling of the composer transcending death through music that was moving and uplifting.

Meanwhile, from the nonsecular quarters every adept to date has described his or her experience of enlightenment as one of transcending death as well as religion.

"I have transcended death," Ms. Demichel said enthusiastically.

One day – yes, surely – you think you will transcend Death.

The Gubbio Studiolo, arguably the Met's greatest period room, is a walk-in attempt to transcend death.

The connection transcends death, and to make it even plainer Mr. Lepage, in flashback, has Ms. Brassard play both the wife and, complete with overcoat, the architect himself.

Shade's poem begins with a pair of couplets announcing his desire to transcend death: "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -- and I / Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky".

In the midst of a monumental sadness at an approaching death, the joy that flowed out transcended death.

The story of Charlie's legacy teaches us that life can transcend death, regardless of how we think about heaven.