Transfigures

This is how the votary of slang transfigures the episode; he wishes to make a little fun out of the hero, and he manages it by employing the tongue which it is good form to use. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

This word transfigures everything, and brings fresh green shoots even from the dry wood of souls defrauded of love and hope. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

It is there that he reveals himself, where he "transfigures" himself. ❋ Papabear (2008)

As we stood and gazed upon it from the hall door, the distant hills were touched with a soft purple light such as transfigures the Apennines at sunset. ❋ William Henry Hurlbert (1861)

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: ❋ Michael Vlahos (2011)

As I said at the outset, William Shakespeare understood people and their failings all too well, and he excelled at the dramatic form that may well be enveloping our nation as it transfigures itself into a modern tragedy. ❋ Michael Russnow (2010)

It's a Capitalist Cancer running amok, one that doesn't destroy the body as much as it transubstantiates it, transfigures it into something resembling sentient but which is really numb, crazy, desperate, deserving of real help. ❋ Steven Weber (2011)

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born accross the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mike Nelson's work buries the British Pavilion at Venice and transfigures it, with grimy corridors, old doors from Istanbul junkyards, mouldering timber beams, the artist's familiar piles of junk. ❋ Unknown (2011)