Transmute

The philosopher's stone could transmute every precious metal into gold.

Alchemists tried to transmute base metals into gold and silver.

Gold will transmute into coal before honour and loyalty alter.

The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.

Did the base metals transmute to gold?

Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations. It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of a peaceful, middle-class life robed in royal blue.

There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs. A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.

Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.