The 449 accounts they came back with, on more than 400 hours of tape, captured the horror, and sometimes, the spiritual transcendence of those days.

The effect is a three-dimensional expression of the Hindu concept of spiritual transcendence.

First of all, the longing for a spiritual transcendence of musical convention is nothing new.

In 1976, claiming to blaze the trail of spiritual transcendence, Inri became vegetarian.

Both films focus on young, attractive women who break the rules to pursue sexual and spiritual transcendence, then return to the middle-class lives they renounced.

In its new home, visual beauty took precedence over philosophy, and art became the primary vehicle for spiritual transcendence.

But they remind us, too, that physical beauty in art was once a pathway to spiritual transcendence.

For the most part, the prayers were devoted to materialistic dreams rather than spiritual transcendence.

Among other things, he has suggested that strenuous athletic feats represent a path to spiritual transcendence.

The phrase also has become a shorthand illustration for the concept of spiritual transcendence.