transfigure

They appear as ready to transfigure as Furey is to switch artistic mode.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

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

If you aren’t aware that Susanna Kaysen published an influential memoir called Girl, Interrupted in 1999, the phrase is puzzling, since Loose Girl doesn’t so much promise to interrupt the truth as to transfigure it.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017

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

Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

By channeling himself into the role, he transfigures a stereotype.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

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

That strange new birth, that awakening of the soul which transfigures those who genuinely experience it, was his; let those doubt it who may, this experience is the great fact in some lives.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

When his parents rejected offers to disinter and return his remains—declaring their son could have no better resting place than among his black troops—Shaw was transfigured from soldier to symbol, celebrated by poets and artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

In the hands of director Alison Moritz and choreographer Hope Boykin, “Mass” felt less transfigured than restored: its details clarified, its highlights polished, its angles more keenly lit.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022

Blanca’s face didn’t look hysterical, just a little transfigured.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

As artists will, they stole everything they could, transfiguring the images further.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann