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  • Her dance company continues to lift me into trancendental states of being.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • Whether the 'believer' is experiencing something truly trancendental or not is another question.

    The Speculist: Survey Results 10-13 2006

  • Whether the 'believer' is experiencing something truly trancendental or not is another question.

    The Speculist: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • Motivation for Cantor's discovery of Set Theory came from his work on Fourier series (which led him to introduce ordinal numbers) and on trancendental numbers.

    Set Theory Jech, Thomas 2002

  • If the will remains absolutely free in spite of acquired knowledge, in spite of strongly developed tendencies of thought and feeling; if the child or youth, at any moment, even in later years, is able to retire into his trancendental _ego_ and arrive at decisions without regard to the effect of previously acquired ideas and habits, any well-planned, intentional effort at education is empty and without effect.

    The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Charles Alexander McMurry 1893

  • He gets more out of his guitar than you would think possible and the live solos are trancendental.

    Word Magazine - Comments Tiger Tiger 2008

  • I think, however, that the criticisms of projects like Gunton's which use perichoresis as a sort of trancendental miss the mark.

    Inhabitatio Dei 2008

  • He gets more out of his guitar than you would think possible and the live solos are trancendental.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2008

  • He gets more out of his guitar than you would think possible and the live solos are trancendental.

    Word Magazine - Comments Vince Black 2008

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