Sentence examples for metamorphosis in which from inspiring English sources

After a period of growth, the tadpole undergoes metamorphosis, in which the tail is lost and limbs appear.

What we're watching is a dizzying multilevel metamorphosis, in which an actor is playing an actor finding the part that would define his career.

Visitors can learn how Houdini executed one of his trademark escapes, known as the Metamorphosis, in which he was handcuffed, put in a sack, and then inside a locked trunk.

Unfortunately, she was all about revealing inner turmoil in "Metamorphosis," in which she took her place not at center stage, but behind a piano, where she played Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".

Estrin, who refers to Gregor as a "5-foot-6-inch cockroach," has either opted not to read or (more likely) chosen to ignore Vladimir Nabokov's Cornell lecture on "The Metamorphosis," in which the novelist-naturalist declared that, given Kafka's description, Samsa could not be a cockroach but rather was a beetle, and only three feet long at that.

Its last section, however, revealed Finkelstein undergoing a bizarre metamorphosis, in which he employed the same dubious rhetoric and faulty logic he had identified in Goldhagen's work in order to propound his own, even "crazier," thesis on the dark forces lurking, to his mind, behind his adversary's success.

Much of Gelb's time that year was spent attracting fresh talent to the Met, such as Mary Zimmerman, who is making her début with "Lucia," and whose Broadway hit in 2002, "Metamorphoses"—in which the tales of Ovid were enacted in and around a wading pool was just the kind of high-culture-based popular success that Gelb seeks to generate at the Met.

Beard progressed to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Tereus rapes Philomela and then cuts out her tongue so that she cannot denounce him.

The van Haarlem depicts a scene from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in which Hercules and the river god Achelous, in the form of a bull, battle over the beautiful Deianeira.

Both adapt a tale from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," in which a romance between a shepherd, Acis, and a sea nymph, Galatea, is disrupted by a monstrous one-eyed giant, Polyphemus.

For Philip IV's hunting lodge outside Madrid, the Torre de la Parada, Rubens painted more than 60 oil sketches inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses in which he reinterpreted the loves, conflicts, and passions of ancient gods and mortals.