Example Sentences

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But in the feeling of chaos turned alchemically into lighthearted frenzy, it is unmistakably a Hurwitz production.

From Salon • May 19, 2016

Double bills can be unpersuasive, but Mr. Birtwistle and Mr. Harsent have built an alchemically potent pairing.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

It’s the lingering myth of the drafty garret housing the starving artist, the amplitude of whose genius can be traced alchemically back to the degree of her suffering.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2014

Herriman developed his strip from the then-dominant slapstick mode, alchemically transmuting the violent, literal trope of the day into an absurdly sweet sign of affection amidst a bizarre love triangle of dog, cat, and mouse.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2012

The intellect interprets afterwards, sets in order, regulates, examines the wonder and beauty the heart distils alchemically out of the eternal stream in which life everywhere dips its feet.

From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon