transmute

The princes, guided by experts like himself, should transmute themselves into agents of economic change through the development of new technology, founding of new industries, and opening of new markets.

In them Rilke sought to show poetry's power to transmute problems of existence and to justify reality.

Kent, who danced Desdemona to Roberts's Othello, testifies to his remarkable ability to transmute a choreographer's intention.

Like The Card Game, whose raw spades and diamonds skid comically across a baize green ground, this work suggests the ambitions of, say, Howard Hodgkin--to recall in tranquillity a past social event and transmute it into paint--downgraded by several stations and fed through a wringer.

In other works, albums transmute into vanity corners or odd little shrines that escape modish fey hippiedom by channeling something ancient (think Tupy) while using the magic of today's materials and by paying heed to the particular form of "softened" Minimalism.

The moral and somatic economy of the movement, she finds, struggles to transcend or transmute a de-divinized world and create new sensibilities and practices of space, citizenship, and sociality.

There is great hope that, mindful of their recent history, Portugal's new generation of architectural navigators can grow in confidence to absorb and transmute local and global influences to ferment a quiet revolution of their own.

It requires storytelling, and storytelling, like painting, is an attempt to transmute the raw stuff of life into precious matter.