It deepened down till it reached her heart, And then gushed up again, And lighted her tears as the sudden sun Transfigures the summer rain.
Her voice soared: "In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With the glory in his bosom which transfiguresyou and me.
The two lines, or half lines, which make the glory of this extract resemble perfectly, for vigorous grace and that subtle strength of interpretation which transfigures the external nature it explains, the living leader of English poets.
Swinburne transfigureslife in Anactoria no less than Shakespeare transfigures it in King Lear.
So that the greatest poet is the one who idealizes the common, who gives new meanings to old symbols, who transfigures the ordinary things of life.
He idealizes the common and transfigures all he touches--but he does not preach.
III From the love that transfigures thy glory, From the light of the dawn of thy death, The life of thy song and thy story Took subtler and fierier breath.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
It dissolves the dim shape into nothing ness, or, rather, it transfigures it into a gracious, soothing form.
But Easter daytransfigures the gloom of the day of the Crucifixion, and the rising sun of its morning gilds and explains the Cross.
But whatever grace may do for the body, it always transfigures the character.
Again, keeping the eye upon the likeness of Christ transfigures the life.
The grief is just as sore, but the truth of immortality sheds holy light on the darkness, and there is a deep joy which transfigures the sorrow.
A passion which, for a space at least, transfigures the natures and ennobles the lives of all but the crass and the sordid.
Mannish women and womanish men are alike incapable of experiencing and inspiring the love-passion, which charms and transfigures life for true man and true woman.
More privily he transfigures himself into an angel of light--that commonly all men are tempted with--when he hides ill under the likeness of good.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
And the permanency of this devotional mood transfigures every place.
It makes plain features lovely, and transfigures them with "the glory of the Lord.
The presentiment that he carries these three heavens within him transfigures your countenance as you gaze upon him.
Thus love transfigures the being by consuming its personality, whence it comes that he who loves, no longer lives his own life, but the life of the being whom he contemplates.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
The freedom which he manifests is not that which has been won, but into which he must have been born, and with that grew the ability which transfigures labor into play.
In attacking theatrical managers he writes in, what he calls, "mystical speeches," and transfigures the persons he attacks under fictitious characters and names.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
This tension of one’s whole being at such times finds its way out upon the visage, and transfigures it with the intense expression that certain painters have loved to catch and to perpetuate.
In the charming treatise on "Old Age," from the pen of Madame Swetchine, a piece of serene poetry and impassioned wisdom, a critic complains that she rather transfigures the subject than shows it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transfigures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
