One of its themes is the transforming power of music, and Mr. Friesen will undergo some transformations himself.
Brad Silverberg, a former senior executive at Microsoft, said, "Steve transformed himself to become chief executive, and he has led an incredible transformation at Microsoft".
The author's transformation of himself into a character is to be taken as rueful or self-deprecating.
Largely thanks to the efforts of his once maligned widow, who has applied to his memory her outstanding talent for artistic transformation, Lennon himself has been preserved in this faith's mythos as the secular saint he plainly wasn't, a beatific figure surrounded by Elysian white, singing hymns of peace.
So he began to talk about his personal transformation, wrapping himself, as Watson puts it, in faith and patriotism.
Shiva asks him to take on the Mohini form again so he can see the actual transformation for himself.
In some stories Shiva asks Vishnu to take on the Mohini form again so he can see the actual transformation for himself.
I began this review with that lil' number because (beware, incoming literary device) it's a metaphor of sorts, for the transformation Miguel himself has undergone over the past two years since his 2010 debut LP, All I Want is You, flopped rather miserably.
A large part of the story is the physical and psychological transformation of Wiggins himself.
Yet instead of transformation, he found himself ducking a boomeranging self: "During all the years I lived in Paris, I had almost daily flashes of the poolroom one flight up on Brighton Beach Avenue".
In "The Cat that Walked by Himself" the transformation from wild to domestic is easily explained, ingeniously too.
