Sentence examples for transmute from inspiring English sources

Money will transmute his victory in an unrepresentative and meaningless straw poll into more money.

THE medieval alchemists who tried to transmute base metals into gold shrouded their theories in impenetrable mystic language.

Those who believed the 2010 merger of seven savings banks, or cajas, laden with toxic property would transmute into a solid new bank were wrong.

And he poses once again the unanswerable question that Marcel Proust raised: by what alchemy does Vermeer transmute the realistic depiction of that everyday life into something transcendent and timeless?

This, the art that conceals art, requires an intimate understanding of their subjects, and a painstaking concern to balance analysis and story.In this section A good hater A drama, not a balance sheet On not being a woman Odd company The last of the old guard National champions ReprintsMr Jones's ability to transmute a complex century into some 600 pages of fast-paced and lucid prose is exemplary.

The alchemists of old sought to transmute base metals into gold and to invent a potion that would confer immortality.

The big risk everywhere is that a strain of the virus will transmute into a version that can be passed from person to person.

Again, alternate takes let the listener trace the evolution of classic performances, and of Coltrane's individual voice.Coltrane's only peer on saxophone in the late 1950s was Sonny Rollins, whose style combined irony, power, speed and a capacity to transmute a single theme into a many-angled extended whole.

He reckons the existing system of local storage is good for a few more decades and is looking into an old idea for dealing with nuclear waste: "burning" it in special reactors that will transmute it into more benign elements, thus eliminating the objection that nuclear power simply dumps the problem of waste in the laps of future generations.It has not, of course, all been plain sailing.

Cisco, says Mr May, managed to transmute a GAAP loss of $3 billion into a pro-forma profit of $700m (see chart).Does this matter?

Nuclear reactors transmute elements routinely.