Sentences with phrase «transcending everyday ways»

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Lia Purpura wrote in her brilliant Brevity essay, «On Miniatures»: «Time, in miniature form, like a gas compressed, gets hotter... miniature time transcends the experience of everyday time and space by offering a special way to encounter and measure duration.»

For Cantor, these images were a way to get beyond the everyday, and to transcend ourselves.

I'd prefer to think that the hard card is a reminder that at this time of year, whatever else has changed in how we identify it and celebrate it, it contains the vestiges of a time when people try to transcend the everyday and increasingly impersonal and superficial world in so many ways.