transfigure

To transfigure a human villain into a demonic one, ostensibly the ultimate moral indictment, in practice amounts to a kind of cinematic vindication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Two of the participants transfigure their own work.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 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

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

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

The show, which is having its world premiere here at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, boldly transfigures the whimsical charms of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movie into sparkling musical comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

The knowledge transfigures her, and there rests on her face the gentle weariness of evening that men call “beauty.”

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In imagining her disturbed perceptions, the novel shows the old dog’s circumscribed world transfigured by long forgotten yearnings and powerfully altered understandings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

Migrating from music to acting, a handful of talents such as Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Dwight Yoakam have transfigured their medium from melody to melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024

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

I have no transfiguring powers and nothing yet to mourn.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

But, as the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reveals in “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” her effervescent study of how the digital world is transfiguring English, informal writing is relatively new.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann