How To Use Transfigure In A Sentence
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They are transfigured by the healing powers of art.
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Technology or mechanistic craft adjusts to the functions of everyday life; art elevates and transfigures the everyday into a transcendent state.
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The eye is a crystal ball, where the pain suffered is transfigured into pleasure received.
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The new furniture has transfigured the old house.
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In that moment, on that mountain, Jesus was transfigured and the disciples got a glimpse of Jesus, the messiah.
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He smiled back, which for an instant transfigured his unrevealing features.
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The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
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Yoga, he observes, uses up and transfigures such basic drives as hunger, sex and breathing; but it suspends or absorbs activities like thought, emotion and will.
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From today, this small spa town in County Clare is going to be transfigured.
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They are transfigured by the healing powers of art.
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They are transfigured by the healing powers of art.
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Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
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Speak the prose only once per day and intend to transfigure the dream according to the intention.
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Here, before the chapel of St. Louis, Raphael lingered, learning the frescoed Sibyls of its vault so by heart that he almost reproduced them afterward in the Pace at Rome -- that dear Raphael who did not fear being called a plagiarist, his soul was so full of beauty, and he so transfigured whatever he touched with that suave pencil of his that seemed to have been clipped in light for a color.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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I used to recur to Todd Carroll's Skeptic's Dictionary as a source of information, until I started to observe that even the raw data of events is transfigured to serve its ‘skeptical’ purposes.
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Its ten plain lines show how accident can be transfigured by inspiration.
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Incredible as it may seem to readers of the historian, the poeticule has actually contrived so far to transfigure by dint of disfiguring him that this most noble and pathetic scene in all the annals of chivalry, when passed through the alembic of his incompetence, appears in a garb of transforming verse under a guise at once weak and wordy, coarse and unchivalrous.
A Study of Shakespeare
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While I was singing 'Wotan's Abschied' to my friends I noticed the same expression on Cosima's face as I had seen on it, to my astonishment, in Zurich on a similar occasion, only the ecstasy of it was transfigured into something higher.
My Life — Volume 2
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People have imaginatively transfigured their experiences of real life into visions of the unknown world.
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Through such liturgy, both the universe as macrocosm and the individual human being as microcosm are transformed, transfigured and deified.
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A young girl, intent on her guitar-playing, with a sun-reddened face and wind-tangled, light-shot hair, is transfigured by her own music.
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As soon as he began to play, the experience of the music was transfigured.
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'Lilies are indeed emblems of the saints; but then they are not poor flowers of earth, being transfigured, lustrous unfadingly.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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At his feet swept the broad and noble river, reflecting on its surface the snowy masses of "thunderhead" clouds, around which the lightning still played, and which, transfigured and glorified in the light of the setting sun, seemed to the poetic imagination of the young man like the City of God descending out of heaven, with its streets of gold and foundations of precious stones, while the rainbow that spanned the heavens seemed like the rainbow of the Apocalypse round about the throne of God.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
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It was that bitter rivalry that led us to lift our gaze to space-but what we have seen has transfigured us.
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The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.
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The history of the Church overall is not uniformly and shiningly an example of humanity transfigured.
Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & History
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It needed only that the seal of martyrdom upon such a life should cause his virtues to be transfigured before us in imperishable grandeur, and his name to be emblazoned with heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame, which shall stand when governments and nations fall.
Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons
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The space ship is cluttered with aging technology and tattered furniture - this is not the uniformly pristine and transfigured world of the typical sci-fi flick.
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The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.
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Beyond even the highest point of this interior life, in which the contemplative feels himself to be living “in God,” [26] is that transfigured or deified life, as the Platonic mystics named it, which Ruysbroeck calls overwesen — superessential — the life of the “God-seeing man” (Book III).
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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As Paul says, all creation groans in anguished anticipation of the day when God's glory will transfigure all things.
Medpundit
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Even pain is transfigured into a sort of pleasure which can be savoured aesthetically.
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Bored and whimsical, he indulges an idle, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach; then he is transfigured by epiphanic agony as the older man falls in love with the younger.
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Within a very short period, humanity has no doubt transfigured the face of the earth by obliterating space and time through the revolution in communications and urbanisation of the world.
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Orthodox Christians live - habitually, I would say - within a liturgical environment that transfigures body and soul, the entire world, in this vision of the light of the Transfiguration.
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If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
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But what is more impressive is the way the show transfigures ordinary gestures.
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She offers us an invocation of a life so drab, so mundane that, emerging from the final close-sealed video room, our own everyday existence seems incomparably transfigured; ineffably glorious.
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The contemporary poets I most admire are similarly subtle in the ways in which they use language to transfigure our perception of the natural world.
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If he had lived in our era, he would probably be a blogger, but instead his multivolume book transfigures his encounters with the arts and artists.
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It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
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This sensory receptor with its cerebral perceptor has in the long process of time, aided by vision, under the influence of natural laws of the survival of the fittest, educated and developed an instrument of simple construction (primarily adapted only for the vegetative functions of life and simple vocalisation) into that wonderful instrument the human voice; but by that development, borrowing the words of Huxley, "man has slowly accumulated and organised the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised as upon a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting here and there a ray from the infinite source of truth.
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
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Meanwhile, a residential construction and remodeling boom promises to transfigure the look of the place still further.
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The old man was transfigured as he reached avidly for the stick and received it.
CHAPTER 2
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Her face was transfigured with joy.
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It seemed almost to usurp and transfigure the air on its way, turning the very darkness to its own purpose.
EVERVILLE
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Combining documentation with the aestheticism of abstract colour, the work transfigures even the drabbest residential blocks.
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Their faces became transfigured with joy.
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Back out on the hill, they were ecstatic, their faces transfigured by huge, permanent smiles.
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Now Pop is, above all, well-adjusted; it doesn't seek to transfigure the world, offers us no transports of ecstasy or escape.
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Its radiant splendor emanates from the Lord Jesus Christ transfigured in this holy place.
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It seemed almost to usurp and transfigure the air on its way, turning the very darkness to its own purpose.
EVERVILLE
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William Blake produced a series of visionary paintings about mankind transfigured by revolution and a series of graphic illustrations to highlight the plight of black slaves tortured in Surinam.