But superdelegates, sensitive to the implications of internecine battles, are more likely to try to transcend emotions to find a reasonable outcome that enhances the party's chances of winning an election.
Even if the parties' leaders are able to transcend emotions and act rationally -- a big "if" -- they are constrained from making symbolic, confidence-building gestures and, ultimately, concessions because their constituents haven't had the kind of therapeutic catharsis Professor Strenger advocates.
Alexandra Olins Winooski, Vt., Feb. 15, 2008 To the Editor: Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (Op-Ed, Feb. 15), writing about the superdelegates to the Democratic convention, posit that the superdelegates are more likely than other delegates to transcend emotions to find a reasonable outcome to the Democratic contest, including whether to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida.
My decision had to transcend politics, emotion and personally held beliefs.
Because condoning and other forms of tolerating wrongdoing may involve transcending negative emotions caused by having been wronged, making exceptions to moral rules, or re-accepting a wrongdoer in the wake of a relationship compromising wrong, condonation may to this extent resemble the standard conception of forgiveness.
"Falsettos" leaps over boundaries, seizing universal needs and emotions, transcending sexual politics and, for that matter, politics of any stripe.
And each time lovers are seen wooing by comparing "monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic substitution codes" — or we are reminded that "Everything means something else, and that something might be what transcends" — character and emotion and plot seem increasingly far off.
It is in these moments that individual emotion transcends the personal realm and gains universally understood context.
Goodwin took to his knees after an 83-yard touchdown reception during the 49ers' 31-21 home victory over the New York Giants ― the team's first win of the season ― but clearly his emotion transcended football.
They neatly capture and express a situation or emotion that transcends the everyday.
"When you get to emotion you transcend the politics a bit – that's the hope".
