(If you're new to the column, I choose to transform the word "responsibility" from the common usage of blame or fault into something that means "having the ability to respond").
Inside the van were machines that transformed the words being typed on the terminal into packets of data.
In an outing called, "On The Road: A Search For American Character," Smith will discuss and perform excerpts from her ongoing and quite fascinating documentary theater project, which, for more than 20 years, has turned heads, generated discussion and garnered praise for the brilliant way it transforms "the words of ordinary people into dramatic monologue".
This streaming, caused by differences in the spectral content of the two components of the syllable, transformed the words into nonwords ("dem" and "dohne") and the nonwords into words ("dome" and "den").
With Counterpoint, Delphic reach the majestic realms of Doves, as, eyes closed, Cook transforms the word "nothing" into a mantra and the band turn from soothsayers to stars.
Or perhaps, when dada's 100th anniversary this year transforms the word into cliche, comics will have to define themselves as pataphysical followers of Alfred Jarry.
That first generation's 5.3-inch display transformed the word "phablet" from similar tech portmanteau to a mainstream product category.
And just as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people transformed the pejorative term "queer" into a positive word of self-reference, Christians transformed the word "Christian" into one of self-reverence.
Thomas Jefferson, who had a keen interest in palaeontology, is partially responsible for transforming the word mammoth from a noun describing the prehistoric elephant to an adjective describing anything of surprisingly large size.
I also think that by referring to joy as a state of being instead of a feeling, it transforms the word, solidifying it somehow, and it becomes a mindset we can hold onto during the swing of feelings we will experience throughout our lives.
