transmute

• Arnold's solution was to transcend or transmute - or avoid - the unpoeticality, Clough's to represent it: he is the "unpoetical" poet. —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
• I know of no regulatory system or degree of protectionism that can transmute irrational exuberance or debilitating fear into a stable growing economy. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
• They thought that, if they had been able to discover the process that would allow them to transmute lesser materials into gold, then there would have been a small step until this could be applied to humans in order to extend their life. —  Softpedia News - Global
• Between now and November 4th, Barack Obama is not going to miraculously grow a genuine record of legislative accomplilshment, for example, and neither is he going to transmute himself into anything but a first-term Chicago politician who's still "green behind the ears." —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
• We may call Boccaccio and Chaucer 'realists', but it is only in Marlowe and Webster, and above all in Shakespeare, that we reach reality itself We all know the world of Shakespeare, how he ranges from Falstaff to Hamlet, from Bottom to Lear, from Mrs. Quickly and Doll Tearsheet to Rosalind and Imogen and Cordelia; we know how to Shakespeare, and in a lesser degree to some of the other great Elizabethans like Marlowe and Webster, there is nothing common and insignificant in life, nothing which the creative imagination of the artist cannot transform, transmute, from mere dross into pure gold. —  The Unity of Civilization

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