transfigure
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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
Their sorcery can transfigure people and things, bestow good or bad luck, heal or hurt — or even offer protection from danger.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 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
Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
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
The poet who drew Hamlet and Othello can never have thought that even the ideal man of action would lack that light upon the brow which at once transfigures them and marks their doom.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
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
Melodrama, a form that Bergman transfigured so brilliantly, feels alien to her temperament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
He seemed almost to be transfigured by the excitement of his thoughts.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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
He envisaged an audience of élite aesthetes who would carry a transfiguring message to the outer world.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
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
Her face was a reflection of many things; a sum of many transfiguring, even violent events.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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