How to Use transfiguration in a Sentence

transfiguration

noun

• That is, nothing can be done until history is ended, in the transfiguration of the world through the parousia, the coming of Christ the King.
  — Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Tuesday is a feast day for the church in honor of the transfiguration of Jesus Christ, which spokeswoman Kristen Bruskas said will be the focal point of that service.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, azcentral, 1 Aug. 2019
• On high, God the father points to Jesus, who points to Moses and Elijah, and at whose feet sit the three apostles overwhelmed by his transfiguration into light.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 29 July 2017
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is returning to the stage - with a little transfiguration to its structure.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2021
• In the new film, Dumbledore is the transfiguration professor at the school.
  — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
• There’s been no word yet about whether the plans for Jeffries’ transfiguration were generated before or after Bowie’s death, or whether Bowie knew about them.
  — Winston Cook-Wilson, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2017
• Don’t forget, Sagittarius, sometimes the right path is the difficult path, and by the middle of the week, you be forced to choose between transfiguration and stability.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 14 Aug. 2017
• But, definitely in that scene, in the transfiguration classroom, there was a monkey of some kind in a cage that did just start jerking off relentlessly.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Dec. 2020
• This at times seems to go beyond the showy, self-regarding transformations that stars like to take on, into a deeper transfiguration.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 May 2017
• Cable news and social media, by way of contrast, make this transfiguration of the human into the political their stock-in-trade.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• There was an implied story line hinting at death and transfiguration.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
• A world without Roe is a world where the fate of a woman’s body — its red fleshy insides, its tubes and its fluids, its unruly growths and wild transfigurations — is decided upon by cabals of men in the cold, marble halls of statehouses.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• But the process of transfiguration—denaturing her pain, turning it into song—can also be healing.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Having evaded wretchedness, the gay young man making up his shining life in the city is one of civilization’s wonders, and Édouard Louis is a new, inspiring real-life example of such transfiguration.
  — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
• For Casey, however, the transfiguration is taking place within.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• All three open with songs contemplating death, and her other solo songs explore desire, myth, memory and transfiguration: as narrative, as images, as parable.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• That kind of transfiguration snuffs out the complexity of his everyday humanity.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• This entire process, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, was not so much about the resurrection of the ancient world as its transfiguration, a multi-century habit of rendering the ancients comprehensible to Northern Europeans.
  — Charles King, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
• Tens of millions of years of tectonic transfiguration and the slow desiccation of Australia have steadily eroded Eidothea’s territory, constricting its two living species to patches of forest along the continent’s eastern coastline.
  — Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
• While there is great beauty in the chiaroscuro interplay between his expressionistic dissonances and Renaissance-style harmonies, his works never build toward resolution or transfiguration.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2018
• The philosopher William MacAskill credits his personal transfiguration to an undergraduate seminar at Cambridge.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Relating folk culture to death and transfiguration, Bercot transcends the triviality of most contemporary filmmaking.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024