transcendentalist

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Adjective
  • Huxley’s critique is clear; America mistakes body for spirit, promiscuously confusing the physical with the metaphysical.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Mercifully, those connections are not forged across time and space; all three stories remain discrete, never approaching a moment of grandiose metaphysical convergence.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • Much more rarely — in fact, corresponding exactly to the release rate of movies by visionary German director Valeska Grisebach — the brilliance goes bone-deep, emerging from an astonishingly new and strange filmic architecture.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • Since the ‘90s, Kedar Massenburg has occupied a unique space in Black music culture — part visionary, part architect, part cultural preservationist.
    Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 22 May 2026
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“Transcendentalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transcendentalist. Accessed 27 May. 2026.

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