alchemy

Still, that particular bit of alchemy never gets old to me.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

"It begins with the transfer of gold from the mantle into a melt that eventually forms volcanoes. The alchemy starts long before the metal reaches the surface."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

In a collection of his reviews, “Big Screen, Little Screen,” I was struck by the way he elucidates the alchemy of Page’s acting.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

“I don’t even know what alchemy is,” the boy was saying, when the warehouse boss called to them to come outside.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

“Fire of Love” excavates their unique story, and the jaw-dropping footage the Kraffts left behind, in a film exploding with awe for the mysterious alchemies of love and obsession.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

It’s also a profane hymn to the specific alchemies of fire and metal, to the dark allure of forces that can destroy us no matter how hard we try to bend them to our will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

“There are no hidden meanings or complicated alchemies that people are hiding from us.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

Chaat is India’s seemingly limitless genre of snacks, alchemies of sour-sweet, tart and smoky, cooling and incendiary, creamy and crackling.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2016

It is the spirit of the Battalion, something compounded by the subtle alchemies of the spiritual world out of the individual souls of officers and privates alike.

From The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 by John W. Arthur