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Synonyms for transfigure

to change into a different form, substance, or state

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Synonyms for transfigure

elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

change completely the nature or appearance of

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Every transfigure is "monstrous" because it retains "the psychic effects of colonial violence on both" Europeans and the people they violated (p.
Like the TRANSFIGURE trial, GESTURE will continue for 132 weeks, with the initial placebo-treated controls being randomized to secukinumab at 150 or 300 mg after week 16.
Kentridge does not so much clothe the opera in a particular visual style as draw out and transfigure its genre-specific resources--the cleaving of the empirical body from the dramatic voice, the tension between the aria that explores a single theme and the recitative that pushes the narrative along--into vehicles for the themes his other media, namely, film and drawing, have explored.
"EVERY GREAT ARTIST," WROTE THE GERMAN CRITIC JULIUS MEIER-GRAEFE, "DANCES HIS WORKS."(1) IT IS A "MYSTICAL DANCE," HE SAID, ALLUDING TO A PASSAGE IN MILTON'S PARADISE LOST: ITS MOVES INVENT "MAZES INTRICATE/ECCENTRIC, INTERVOLVED, YET REGULAR/THEN MOST, WHEN MOST IRREGULAR THEY SEEM." WILHELM UHDE - ANOTHER GREAT GERMAN CRITIC, AND A FRIEND OF MEIER-GRAEFE'S - THOUGHT THAT SUCH INRICATE MYSTICAL ART SHOWED "GOTHIC FEELING" - THE GERMANIC FEELING FOR BEING, EXPRESSING TRANSCEDENTAL EROS' "TRAGIC IMPATIENCE" WITH "BANAL REALITY," AND THE DESIRE TO "TRANSFIGURE" REALTY IN ART.(2) UHDE THOUGHT PABLO PICASSO WAS THE MODERN MANIFESTATION OF THIS "GOTHIC IDEAL." TODAY, IT SEEMS TO ME, THAT TITLE WOULD BE CLAIMED BY GEORG BASELITZ.
The actuality of traffic jams transfigures into various behaviors and facets that converge with and materialize in ordinary life.
I need to be with her every night And day, her light, transfigures all And fills my heart up with delight.
ably demonstrates how the Eucharist "transfigures" these phenomena for those who practice Christian faith; he leads us to reflect upon why these tangible realities are so primordial to a fulfilling human life.
Hideous torment-- burns, white blasts, Transfigures single grains to strength thru pain, the strength that strengthens forms these jewels with will to live yet death to face,Aa These lustrous Pearls of Gaza.
Messianic mission as presented here "transfigures" traditional approaches to mission, just as Jesus himself had "transfigured" the Jewish mission practises of his time (p.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.