Example Sentences

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The musical nails the first one but the second one is kind of underwritten—you don’t really understand how utterly and completely love has transfigured Valjean.

From Time • Dec. 21, 2012

With audacity and ambition, Patchett has transfigured the story line of "Heart of Darkness" by setting it in the present day and turning both the seeker and the sought-after into women. 

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2011

K�ng is perplexed by the Gospel accounts of the resurrection, but, he says, the apostles' belief that Jesus rose from the grave has transfigured subsequent civilizations.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has gone into the heart and through the heart, it has got hold of the will and it has transfigured the spirit and the whole being.

From Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training by Hall, Mosiah

When, however, death has transfigured age and sorrow, the likeness of Agnes reappears in the Assumption, and Coronation, and, the crowning glory, the Enthronement of the Virgin.

From Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens by Kemp-Welch, Alice