transubstantiating

As I wrote a couple weeks back, we need to keep expectations for an Obama presidency realistic, lest we end up calling for his head because he proves to be incapable of transubstantiating assault rifles into cost-efficient photovoltaic cells.

Ross Hyzer: Thanks for Nothing 2009

His presents an image of Jesus transubstantiating into what appears to be a cloud of Fruity Pebbles, while his portrait of God looks like a Hobbit who just swallowed a bad oyster.

Influence 2008

Wood hews to this mid-19th/early-20th-century-sounding faith in fiction's redeeming -- nay, transubstantiating -- power at a time when few fellow believers remain in the literary chapel.

Epilogue 2007

Part of the great frustration so many people have had with Jobs is that, in this virtual, transubstantiating age, he has always wanted to act like an industrialist.

iPod, Therefore I Am Wolff, Michael 2006

Part of the great frustration so many people have had with Jobs is that, in this virtual, transubstantiating age, he has always wanted to act like an industrialist.

iPod, Therefore I Am Wolff, Michael 2006

It is primarily just that every human desire or disposition signifies, and so is worth narrating, worth transubstantiating into the words of narrative.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names' 2005

Maybe the world population is quite small—just a handful of brains transubstantiating all around the globe.

Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

The monks and ecclesiastics were supposed to be most likely to discover the secret process, since ` ` they were such good artists in transubstantiating bread and wine. ''

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

Prinn, in his _Aurum Reginæ_, observes, as a note to this passage, that the king's reason for granting this patent to ecclesiastics was, that "they were such good artists in transubstantiating bread and wine in the eucharist, and therefore the more likely to be able to effect the transmutation of baser metals into better."

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

Bennifer mania really is a form of celluloid fundamentalism, a fully realised faith, its form of communion transpiring in the darkness of the theatre, not a cathedral, but transubstantiating nonetheless. "

GreenCine Daily 2009