metamorphoses

She metamorphoses from a Gothic heroine passively awaiting deliverance to a hyperactive maniac who believes that she needs to protect men by dragging them away from “The fierce and fiery light” (5.2.45) and the imaginary legions of the advancing dead (Orra 164).

The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillie’s Orra and The Dream 2008

In any event, the capitalists figured out a way to sate the proletariat, and the great metamorphoses from a society of wage slaves into a workers’ paradise never happened, unless you consider two cars and a TV set in every room a workers’ paradise.

Government blues David 2006

Thought is the highest point of a series of ascending metamorphoses, which is called nature.

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

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Roman History Books and More IHahn 2009

Yakovenko notes that Fedotov's main claim to fame, his coauthorship of the Russian media law, came 18 years ago and during that time, many in Russia have undergone "metamorphoses" straight out of Franz Kafka.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

P] Added to this, insects have antennæ, and undergo metamorphoses, which is not the case with the spider.

Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

"metamorphoses," we find that the germ (_the egg_) becomes a larva (_a worm_), and then dies as a chrysalis, to be reborn as a butterfly.

Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

Young ex-architect Kekul" went looking among the molecules of the time for the hidden shapes he knew were there, shapes he did not like to think of as real physical structures, but as "rational formulas," showing the relationships that went on in "metamorphoses," his quaint 19th-century way of saying "chemical reactions."

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

And that, in a number of cases, they afford you excellent written evidence of telling metamorphoses—in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and so on—over thousands of years.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

And that, in a number of cases, they afford you excellent written evidence of telling metamorphoses—in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and so on—over thousands of years.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010