transfigure

His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.

At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.

Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.

To transfigure a human villain into a demonic one, ostensibly the ultimate moral indictment, in practice amounts to a kind of cinematic vindication.

In the musical “Parade,” it is not enough that Leo Frank is lynched; to make him fully human he must be transfigured by love.