Sentence examples for transubstantiate from inspiring English sources
Swift, the writer, also gets to transubstantiate; their song is their life as she describes it.
"Why?" He can't say it, but his answer is this: he needs to know if he has it in him to ask for the nails, if he can get up there in front of the whole town and do a performance so convincing he'll transubstantiate right there on the cross into something real.
He knows that if he can break through "the shimmering envelope" to "look through things" he might "show how light and those things it illumines are both transubstantiate, both tenuous".
A sui generis autodidact (he now suspects he has Asperger's syndrome) equipped with a fierce moral vision and a sensuous musicality, he writes subtly about postcolonialism, urban sprawl and poverty and, in his most intimate poems, reminds us of the power of literature to transubstantiate grievance into insight.
Mr. Lehrer's songs, however, are fortified by his impeccable use of musical form, as in "The "Vatican Rag," whose strict ragtime melody attached to words like "genuflect" and "transubstantiate" is irresistibly funny.
He insisted that the writers' room be a quiet, honest, inviolate place where we could kick around our frailties and transubstantiate the dark, intimate truths and daily comedies of our lives into compelling television.
The engineers would have done better to let them transubstantiate.
It also confirms that, of all the artists associated with the Fetish Finish tendency in Los Angeles in the 1960's, only Mr. Price managed to transubstantiate it from surface to form, transcending its origins in customized car culture by making it flesh -- abstract flesh.
He was transubstantiating.
Perhaps the Bennifer mania really is a form of celluloid fundamentalism, a fully realised faith, its form of communion transpiring in the darkness of the theatre, not a cathedral, but transubstantiating nonetheless.
He has not only a well-tuned ear for prose but a remarkable ability to convey how novelistic language transubstantiates life into literature.
