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Example sentences for "transcend"

Lexicographically close words:
transactions; transacts; transatlantic; transboundary; transceiver; transcendant; transcended; transcendence; transcendency; transcendent
  1. To this may belong a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion.

  2. There speaks, of course, the prophet of the new age which was to transcend the old rationalist movement.

  3. The first man to bring to England the leaven of this new spirit, and therewith to transcend the old philosophical standpoint of Locke and Hume, was Coleridge with his Aids to Reflection, published in 1825.

  4. It is cited only to show how Kant, too, failed to transcend his age in some matters, although he so splendidly transcended it in others.

  5. Yet the moment we touch them we transcend science and pass into the realm of philosophy.

  6. There are aspects of truth which transcend our powers.

  7. What effort of the imagination could transcend the realities here presented to us?

  8. And yet the reality would, if we could see it, transcend the fancy.

  9. That purpose must be sought in spiritual dimensions of life and motivation that transcend a constantly changing economic landscape and an artificially imposed division of human societies into “developed” and “developing”.

  10. What Bahá’u’lláh is calling for is a consultative process in which the individual participants strive to transcend their respective points of view, in order to function as members of a body with its own interests and goals.

  11. The Law is that we cannot transcend the Normal; therefore comes the question, What is the Normal?

  12. They say in effect, I want to transcend the standard of humanity as I see it around me.

  13. By parity of reason, the duty of the individual can never transcend the average conscience of the community.

  14. Unless the Word of God was utterly different from all his other works, it must transcend the comprehension of man in some respects.

  15. There is the power to transcend the situation as two people engage the events that are whirling around them and together try to make sense of their worlds and find a meaning to their existence.

  16. The values which he apprehends must be harmonious, and so far above the plurality of goods as to transcend and unify them.

  17. As the poet transcends thought for the sake of experience, the philosopher must transcend experience for the sake of thought.

  18. Plato, it will be remembered, found that experience tends ever to transcend itself.

  19. Sidenote: The General Tendency of Subjectivism to Transcend Itself.

  20. These motives and grounds do not transcend mere morality, and so cannot beget a love which is the symptom of Christianity.

  21. Imagination that can transcend the created heavens and earth, and fancy to itself millions of new worlds, every one exceeding another, and all of them exceeding this in perfection, yet it can do nothing here.

  22. How long shall not your thoughts transcend this temporal and bodily life?

  23. Have we not been in error in demanding from our playwrights personages who do not transcend our common actions any more than our common speech?

  24. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them.

  25. In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible; the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.

  26. I go Thy larger truth to prove; Thy mercy shall transcend my longing I seek but love, and Thou art Love!

  27. Nancy's smile bespoke a knowledge that seemed to transcend my own.

  28. Sequences of words curiously convey meanings and implications that transcend their literal sense, true thoughts and feelings are difficult to disguise even in written speech.

  29. This fact of consciousness can not be invalidated by any conceptions of the logical understanding in regard to the omnipotence or prescience of God, for these by their very nature transcend all human comprehension.

  30. The facts transcend all the possibilities of human experience.

  31. The powers, therefore, of our senses and mind place the limit to the finite, but those magnitudes which severally transcend these limits, by reason of their being too great or too small, we call infinite and infinitesimal.

  32. It can not transcend them without being brought in contact with the other departments.

  33. The path to public favor lies open by such obedience, and it finds not only support but impunity in whatever measures the majority advises, even though they transcend the constitutional limits.

  34. This conceded, all that can be claimed by those who administer the affairs of the nation, unless they transcend the constitutional limit, is conceded.

  35. We entered the terrible sphere of time and space to transcend both and be free.

  36. I have taken the hint from the new race children, that to transcend pain we must make joy of it.

  37. They ought in kindness and benevolence to transcend other denominations as far, as their doctrine of universal beniguity transcends the doctrine of unending wo.

  38. In an effort to transcend perspectives of advanced practice nursing based on the traditional reductionist medical science and nursing process models, processes of care are superimposed on a traditional medical model (Dunphy, 1998).

  39. How could the nurse transcend the moment to create possibilities within this specific nursing situation?

  40. The hermeneutic circle models the idea of reciprocal relation, but Macdonald goes further to call for a self-reflective science that will "transcend problems of monological and hermeneutic meaning" (p.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transcend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beat; best; better; bulk; cap; exceed; excel; improve; loom; outdo; outshine; outstrip; outweigh; overcome; overpass; overreach; overrun; overshoot; overstep; pass; perfect; predominate; preponderate; prevail; rear; soar; surpass; top; tower; transcend; trump