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Like the calligraphy on display, these pictures transfigure Indian inspirations and Chinese interpretations into something that is uniquely Japanese.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Stately, mellow, warm, it sings with contentment, backed with a faith strong enough that when troubles darken the scene, you can practically hear Walter transfigure them with an understanding smile.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

These phenomena transfigure copyrights, patents, and trademarks into subjects of everyday importance.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022

These are process-driven stories that actively engage, and transfigure, the moment that spawns them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

“In her awful silence flickers a light that transfigures her vision: That light is hope.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

What radiates from Eika’s gritty magical realism is ambient but potent: a grief so profound that it transfigures, a loneliness so abject that it fractures perception.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

All great art is consoling because it transfigures our ordinary feelings into something bigger.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2016

It gets to the very essence of movie-going and transfigures the concept.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2016

It transfigures common things with beauty and fresh meaning, with the cycle of the seasons and ever freshness of the days.

From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske

The martyred Monica has literally been transfigured into a saint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Her summer is transfigured by their innocent trysts: “There was the still water of a lake. There were a garden’s scents and its delicious twilight air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025

The following year, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning “the transfigured spirit of the solar orb,” and moved himself and his entire family to the new city.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The big mesa is to this day regarded as an apu, an ancient spirit transfigured into rock.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Still, the speed at which generative AI appears to be capable of transfiguring workplaces — seemingly overnight — is dizzying, especially relative to prior technological breakthroughs.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Beyond that transfiguring, it’s an otherwise archetypal L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

Born in Antigua, Kincaid invents aesthetics which are wholly unique, transfiguring human form and surroundings, in particular, the Caribbean landscapes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2019

Some of the words, coming in widely spaced, suspense-producing phrases, were “soon, I’ll pass by” and “now,” which made the song a hymn to ephemerality, describing the whole occasion while transfiguring it.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2018

Her face was a reflection of many things; a sum of many transfiguring, even violent events.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy