Sentence examples for transcends merely from inspiring English sources

They are a diverse, intriguing bunch who have been chosen to play the most important position in football by coaches who argue that quarterbacking on the college level transcends merely possessing football skills.

On Cockburn's view, humans have a natural and innate tendency toward what is good and benevolent that transcends merely weighing the effects of one's actions.

The genius of Dickens lay in his ability to transcend merely topical issues through the vitality with which he presented them, so that his contemporary disclosures take on a timeless human validity chiefly through the power of their drama, character, and rhetoric.

But I have to admit that it still always amazes me whenever I encounter people who know Gabriel García Márquez, the one writer who, especially in my youth, meant more to me than any other, in a manner that transcended merely a love of his literature.

The naturalistic leaf ornament of Southwell Minster, Reims Cathedral, and other Gothic churches transcends the merely decorative and becomes superbly plastic sculpture in its own right.

The details of country life that fill the stories of Washington Irving are portrayed with affection by William Sidney Mount, who in "Eel Spearing at Setanket" (1845; New York State Historical Association, New York City) transcends the merely anecdotal.

His institutional ties transcended the merely honorific.

Transcending the merely tragic was the death of Dame Joan Sutherland on October 10.

The masterpieces of Faulkner and Williams endure because they transcend the merely regional.

A weekly column about New York establishments that transcend being merely commercial.

Even those who might have preferred more decorative singing, however, could never deny that Vickers always transcended the merely melodramatic.