Sentence examples for transfigure from inspiring English sources

Robinson, so theologically obsessed with transfiguration, can transfigure the most banal observation.

Concentrating on small communities, Spark and Golding transfigure them into microcosms.

Her intense identification with fictional detectives feels of a piece with her broader understanding of the artistic process: much in the way that a detective might obsess over physical evidence, in search of a truth that will reveal itself only to her, Smith celebrates artists who are able to transfigure ordinary objects in the light of their own genius.

Nothing is more insistent, in the artist's mind, than the will to transfigure the hellbent into the heaven-sent, and you can see the urge to make good writ large on Redgrave's impassioned face, and hear it in the softly troubled rasp of her voice.

He liked to say that he had a well-developed sense of Tatsächlichkeit, "factuality"; for him, the trick of literature was to "transfigure" everyday facts into something elevated, imbued with Rätsel and Halbdunkel, "mystery" and "twilight".

Here, a group of college students — all women — make it a moral mission to transfigure their little world (and the young men in it) into a more aesthetically pleasing one.

But grief is harder to transfigure than ice jams and cellar holes, something both of these poets have come to know.

They involve an impulse to transfigure the horrific, the chaotic, and the merely dismal aspects of one's experience into a compelling story with a pleasing symmetry and shapely beauty — in other words, a work of art.