1.   An acceptance speech needs to soar with purpose that almost transcends politics.

2.   Art, it is often said, transcends politics.

3.   Art, they believe, will transcend politics.

4.   Before that, though, came an event illustrating how art can transcend politics.

5.   Bradic insisted that the daily performances at the National Theater transcend politics.

6.   But he also has been willing to take on AIDS activists when he believes a public health goal should transcend politics.

7.   But issues such as abortion seem to transcend party politics.

8.   But the issue transcends partisan politics, Bush said.

9.   By style and pedigree, they transcend politics and cross over into the consciousness of the nonpolitical.

10.   Democrats may be out of fashion these days and traditional liberalism may be on its last legs, but these guys transcend politics.