Much of the astronauts' training for the transcendent moment is broadly farcical.

Where do you go these days for the transcendent moment, the one that brings down the house?

It is a truly transcendent moment, an almost Hollywood ending to a story of pain, conflict and struggle.

Ah, but there are transcendent moments in working with kids.

Thus missing what was possibly the most transcendent moment of his life.

For most of us such transcendent moments are rare.

This was one of those transcendent moments for which one goes to the theater.

But for one transcendent moment, all caution and fear was cast aside as they embraced.

"This is a transcendent moment," he said of the peace process.

When you're in the sound and the chemistry is there, it's a transcendent moment.