

2023 The kingdom sees sports as a winning formula to refresh its image, part of a campaign led by its de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to transfigure the country from a sleepy, conservative oil producer into a dynamic hot spot for tourism, investment, futuristic technology and more. verb transfigure To be transfigured means to be changed into something great or beautiful. transitive verb transfigure spiritualize 1. transitive verb transfigure transform, metamorphose 1. verb with object transfigure to change so as to glorify or exalt.

Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. verb with object transfigure to change in outward form or appearance transform.

2023 De la Mare’s many stories for grown-ups proffer even more complex visions of the familiar transfigured by strangeness. Britannica Dictionary definition of TRANSFIGURE + object literary : to change the appearance of (something or someone) Her face seemed transfigured by happiness. 2023 What comes out of the tubes has some of the same messy sparseness: if James Turrell transfigures galleries by sculpting with light, Flavin scribbles with it. 1 2 The Synoptic Gospels ( Matthew 17:18, Mark 9:28, Luke 9:2836) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it ( 2 Peter 1:1618 ). We grow bored and tired of even the greatest pleasures. 2023 Recent works by Los Angeles artist Meg Cranston, now on display at the new Dallas branch of LA’s Meliksetian Briggs gallery, transfigure the most basic of a painter’s tools: the palette where colors are squirted out of tubes, to be juxtaposed or mixed. The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. Though God grants us many blessings on this side of glory, nothing created can ever fully satisfy us. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023 And so Baca began to transfigure his firsthand accounts from 25 years of institutionalization, six of them in federal prison, into the lyrical fabric of the film. TRANSFIGURE Meaning: 'change, transform' (12c.), and directly from Latin transfigurare 'change the shape of,' from trans See origin and meaning of transfigure. Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023 Like the calligraphy on display, these pictures transfigure Indian inspirations and Chinese interpretations into something that is uniquely Japanese. especially : a change that beautifies, glorifies, or makes more spiritual. Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023 His paintings often depicted a human body glowing, as if transfigured, in a geometric landscape. Recent Examples on the Web By the time Small had been using the GPR machine in the cemetery for a couple of days, she felt transfigured by a sense of calling.
