transmutation

Examples of transmute

transmute
Attitudes are transmuted and adapted but remain fundamentally what they have been for generations.
Her aria and their actions demonstrate the implacability of a desire that should have been stilled, or indeed, transmuted by their accession to power.
In the records she is ostensibly present, but is actually lost to her translated, transmuted, and sexualized inscription.
Its members were transmuted into true intellectuals by a process of revision that usually originated in personal examination.
Nevertheless, just as the possession of a generous income was transmuted into a form of self-sacrice, so too was the prospect of marriage.
But almost at once the process of exposition starts to waver or transmute.
The necessity for an existential dimension to the work in hand becomes transmuted into a preference, even a quest for the elimination of the casual.
Almost all alchemical treatments and operations were directed toward changing the properties of fusible bodies or transmuting them into each other.
The pluriactive family eventually transmuted into the small entrepreneur as market conditions improved.
Similarly, it can be transmuted for oneself into such a concern.
The liberalist turn in the 1920s could not last for long and the critique of the superseding sovereign nation state transmuted into hegemonic regionalism in the 1930s.
An atmosphere of wholeness permeated the entire enterprise, transmuting it into a kind of magic and enshrining it in the minds of those who had been there.
As a consequence, his bird-bride and their "bairnies three" transmute into gulls and take to the skies, leaving the hunter asking whether they will ever return.
The important thing within the ritual of confession is not only to confess to acts that transgress the law, but also to transmute one's desire into a form of discourse.
Airs, vapors and moonlight transmute, readily, from sense to sense, as the text plays out the ghosts in what should be safe and sane meanings.
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