transmogrify
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Like a scaled-up Joseph Cornell box, the assemblage transmogrifies thrift-store finds into a serious work of art: It recalls a medieval Christian altarpiece.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022
Piglia’s “delusion of living in the third person” to “avoid the illusion of an interior life” transmogrifies us as well, into the character of the reader, and “that feeling is priceless.”
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
A fellow novelist once said of Bainbridge: “She transmogrifies events in her own way.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2016
The 2000-square-foot retail space in New York completely transmogrifies every few weeks.
From Inc • Aug. 2, 2013
It is brilliant, vivid, changeable with the interferences of light from the fluctuating surface above, which transmogrifies everything—touches the coarsest objects with its pencil, and they become radiant and spiritual.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
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