as in transformation
a change in form, appearance, or use
after his transfiguration into a Buddhist monk, all his family and friends were amazed by his newly found patience and tranquility
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Five, transfiguration is a way to overcome such unfairness.
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WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
An equally powerful transfiguration occurred through his encounter with the work of the Black American artist Romare Bearden.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
The billion-dollar Kardashian empire is built on paradoxes: the endless watchability of a family whose flat emotional timbre rarely wavers, the transfiguration of notoriety into a following that makes you (by Instagram metrics) the sixth-most-famous person on Earth.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2021
Specifically, what could be taken as the most obvious transfiguration of the St. John Passion, dramatizing the final hours of Jesus’s life: This Jesus is Black, richly and compellingly embodied by a powerful bass-baritone, guest artist Jonathan Woody.
—Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
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WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
An equally powerful transfiguration occurred through his encounter with the work of the Black American artist Romare Bearden.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
The billion-dollar Kardashian empire is built on paradoxes: the endless watchability of a family whose flat emotional timbre rarely wavers, the transfiguration of notoriety into a following that makes you (by Instagram metrics) the sixth-most-famous person on Earth.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2021
Specifically, what could be taken as the most obvious transfiguration of the St. John Passion, dramatizing the final hours of Jesus’s life: This Jesus is Black, richly and compellingly embodied by a powerful bass-baritone, guest artist Jonathan Woody.
—Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
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