Example Sentences

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There is certainly something beautiful and powerful, even alchemic, about being in a women-only space.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2019

That's all well and up-to-no-good, but the alchemic tang of peeled-back vice and possible insanity isn't there in Jerry Rapp's plodding screenplay and director Tim Hunter's tension-challenged execution.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2018

The lesson proved alchemic, marking a transformation in Cousins’s performance.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2016

Abstraction also gave Polke a pretext to go wild with the alchemic outré: Arsenic, meteorite dust, coffee and soap were precious work materials.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2014

That speech turned an equivocal, a provisional victory on the field of battle—thanks to the alchemic power of Lincoln’s words—into a turning point in the history of American liberty.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith