Metamorphoses

She metamorphoses from a Gothic heroine passively awaiting deliverance to a hyperactive maniac who believes that she needs to protect men by dragging them away from “The fierce and fiery light” (5.2.45) and the imaginary legions of the advancing dead (Orra 164). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In any event, the capitalists figured out a way to sate the proletariat, and the great metamorphoses from a society of wage slaves into a workers’ paradise never happened, unless you consider two cars and a TV set in every room a workers’ paradise. ❋ David (2006)

Thought is the highest point of a series of ascending metamorphoses, which is called nature. ❋ Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel (1885)

Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them. meanwhile, 'matters arising' continues with his 'metamorphoses' series and also displays art about the rape of lucretia updated ❋ IHahn (2009)

Yakovenko notes that Fedotov's main claim to fame, his coauthorship of the Russian media law, came 18 years ago and during that time, many in Russia have undergone "metamorphoses" straight out of Franz Kafka. ❋ Unknown (2009)

P] Added to this, insects have antennæ, and undergo metamorphoses, which is not the case with the spider. ❋ Lucien Biart (1863)

"metamorphoses," we find that the germ (_the egg_) becomes a larva (_a worm_), and then dies as a chrysalis, to be reborn as a butterfly. ❋ Th. Pascal (N/A)

Young ex-architect Kekul" went looking among the molecules of the time for the hidden shapes he knew were there, shapes he did not like to think of as real physical structures, but as "rational formulas," showing the relationships that went on in "metamorphoses," his quaint 19th-century way of saying "chemical reactions." ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

And that, in a number of cases, they afford you excellent written evidence of telling metamorphoses—in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and so on—over thousands of years. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

In The Red Convertible, readers can follow the evolution of narrative styles, the shifts and metamorphoses in Erdrich's fiction, over the past thirty years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As I read them, all those fairy princesses, likewise, are simply exaggerated depictions of real women, who are beautiful, numinous, and otherwordly creatures surrounded by taboos and rituals as bizarre and seemingly arbitrary as the laws of Faerie, and who can cause mysterious metamorphoses -- like the way they can make those bull horns mounted on the wall magically transform into a set of lacy curtains. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After several metamorphoses, the scholars behind the division laid its foundation on relatively neutral territory: the legacy of Edward Said, who taught at Columbia for 40 years before his death in 2003. ❋ Leah Finnegan (2010)

After several metamorphoses, the scholars behind the division laid its foundation on seemingly (or rather, relatively) neutral territory: the legacy of Edward Said, who taught at Columbia for 40 years before his death in 2003. ❋ Leah Finnegan (2010)

Rock teas brew a dark, reddish liquor, with an initially bitter, slightly woody flavor, that quickly metamorphoses into a sweet and lingering aftertaste, with delicate hints of honey and fruit. ❋ Ilaria Maria Sala (2011)

Her eye was arrested by an open photograph album … David Bowie at the Rainbow Theatre, 1972; at the LA Forum in 1976; Hiroshima, 1973; LA Amphitheatre, 1974; Wembley, 1976: the images seeming to have been chosen for their visual diversity and metamorphoses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my 1991 book, Boys Will Be Boys, in a chapter entitled, "When Boys and Babies Meet," I described the extraordinary metamorphoses I witnessed in an inner city school where boys who looked angry, bored, slouched over their desks half asleep, came alive when a twenty one month toddler was brought in. ❋ Myriam Miedzian (2011)

"After eating [too many] McChickens, you will eventually [metamorphosize] into [Michael Moore]." ❋ Marcthamac (2013)

Jess is [metamorphosizing] by watching my stream and killing me. You can’t say [metagaming] you have to say metamorphosizing in GTA. If you [metamorphosize] you will be banned in any RP server. ❋ Rjv_f4234 (2021)

[Lets go] [power rangers], metamorphosize. ❋ Nick_charles (2010)

Person A: WHERE'D [YOU GET THAT] ADORABLE [PINAFORE] DRESS? Person B: From the best [lolita] store ever, Metamorphose temps de fille! ❋ Gosu Rori (2007)

Chronicling the transformations of the world, from its creation to its breakdown, due to the coronavirus and the self-deification a [Julius Caesar] wannabe, Covid's Metamorphoses will be read in the [22nd Century] as a charming [fable] of humanity as it once was. ❋ Monkey's Dad (2020)