Sentence examples for reverse alchemy from inspiring English sources
(Compared with this radiant effect, the marble miracle mile of the Getty Center in Los Angeles looks produced by reverse alchemy. Travertine in, chip board out).
In the years since Fellini and Resnais reached out to Lee to express their admiration, movie adaptations of comic book heroes have practiced a reverse alchemy.
Indeed, Mr Zapatero has performed a kind of reverse alchemy, transforming economic gold into political lead.With the economy now weighing so heavily, two unlikely campaign champions have emerged.
So if Mr. James did play a leading role, the question is: what reverse alchemy tranformed last year's victory over Mr. Booker into last week's defeat in the school advisory school board elections?
In every phase of the process, there were opportunities to turn an average sketch into a great one (and also to do the opposite, but I'm deluded enough to believe that I never engaged in that kind of reverse alchemy).
Shakespeare's Kings John Julius Norwich Penguin £9.99, pp467 Buy it at BOL Where Shakespeare turned history into drama, John Julius Norwich attempts to reverse the alchemy.
On stage, the words are presented backwards, as if attempting by some alchemy to reverse the process, and it becomes clear that the piece is a lament; a cry of loss for Kai-Maier.Not to be taken with dinnerAmong those who failed to "get" Mr Forsythe's work were the councillors of Frankfurt.
During the Stalin years, he was found guilty of incorrect thought, of trying to reverse the course of scientific progress, turn chemistry back into alchemy and astronomy back into astrology.
"To demonstrate 'buon disegno' (good design), Michelangelo reversed the sheet and performed a miracle of artistic alchemy: ugliness became beauty, harrowing but unbecoming emotion became serene resignation, an indecorous head was transformed into a doomed Cleopatra," Wallace writes.
German artist Sigmar Polke's work has often been understood in terms of alchemy; the curators of a vast retrospective coming to Tate Modern next month from New York's Museum of Modern Art take the reverse view.
