Sentence examples for powers of transmutation from inspiring English sources

An actress known for her powers of transmutation, Ms. Tyson said she becomes rather than portrays her characters.

In some legends, people become werewolves by choice, says Steiger; they "seek the power of transmutation through incantations, potions or spells, glorying in their strength and in their ability to strike fear into the hearts of all who hear their piercing howling on the nights of the full moon.

The presence of transmutation rights diffuses monopoly power without hurting producers' profits.

Or is a kind of transmutation even a transmigration of souls or species, involved?

The IEER describes evaluations in favour of transmutation as "seriously deficient" and made "mainly by those who would like to see a continuation of nuclear power".At the moment, though, nuclear power's supporters seem to have the upper hand, as many people think it is the only practical way to generate large amounts of electricity without producing climate-changing carbon dioxide.

The theories of "transmutation" between species, which were already current, appalled him.

As Lamarck had rejected Cuvier's theory of catastrophism, the English scientist Richard Owen would reject Lamarck's theory of transmutation.

Although Lamarck is better remembered for his false idea that this transmutation process occurred through the "inheritance of acquired characteristics," his fundamental concept of transmutation was a prescient preview of how evolution works.

Alchemy is primarily an art of transmutation: one metal is turned into another, one living creature erupts out of the substance of another.

Brocchi's was a distinct form of transmutation.

Both framed theories of transmutation based on the notion of natural groups.