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transfigure

[trans-fig-yer, -fig-er] / trænsˈfɪg jər, -ˈfɪg ər /


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I remember the quietness of that afternoon and my fascination with the images on the report, which seemed to transfigure the space around me.

From New York Times May 25, 2023

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

He helps transfigure the scene from a purely technical endeavor into a kind of weightless dance, a zero-gravity ballet.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2020

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

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

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

Just as “Queen of Earth” transfigures its narrative conflicts into an exalted cinematic music, it retrospectively emphasizes the tonal values of Perry’s earlier films.

From The New Yorker Jun. 18, 2015

The presentiment that he carries these three heavens within him transfigures your countenance as you gaze upon him.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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

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

Melodrama, a form that Bergman transfigured so brilliantly, feels alien to her temperament.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2021

I would study pictures of martyrs—white- robed virgins fallen in death and the young, almost smiling, St. Sebastian, transfigured in pain.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

Fellman’s playful but deliberate approach to form, his deft way of presenting his own canon and then transfiguring it on the page, would feel familiar to them.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 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




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