Transfigured Sentence Examples

A flood of brilliant, joyful light poured from her transfigured face.

The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun.

The city of Rome was transfigured.

The author himself says that it is transfigured realism - which is realism in asserting objective existence as separate from subjective existence, but anti-realism in denying that objective existence is to be known.

It is true that the author did not see that he was passing from transfigured realism into materialism.

But whether the great gods of polytheism were really transfigured ancestors is very doubtful.

The homeliest details of the farmer's work are transfigured through the poet's love of nature; through his religious feeling and his pious sympathy with the sanctities of human affection; through his patriotic sympathy with the national greatness; and through the rich allusiveness of his art to everything in poetry and legend which can illustrate and glorify his theme.

However this may be, remnants of their primitive superhuman qualities cling to the Celtic heroes long after they have been transfigured, under the influence of Christianity and chivalry, into the heroes of the medieval Arthurian romance, types - for the most part - of the knightly virtues as these were conceived by the middle ages; while shadowy memories of early myths live on, strangely disguised, in certain of the episodes repeated uncritically by the medieval poets.

It is true that Spencer's " transfigured realism" contains much that was not dreamt of by Hume.

This hope is for the people on this earth though transfigured.

One minute I was lost in solitary thoughts, the next I was in a world transfigured by collective energy.

To the theory of knowledge Spencer contributes a "transfigured realism," to mediate between realism and idealism, and the doctrine that "necessary truths," acquired in experience and congenitally transmitted, are a priori to the individual, though a posteriori to the race, to mediate between empiricism and apriorism.

This then is his transfigured realism, which, as far as what is known goes, is idealism, but as far as what exists goes, realism - of a sort.

The " antirealism," which takes the lion's share in " transfigured realism," is simply a development of the phenomenalism of Hume.

The latter's cheerful man-of-the-world scepticism is transfigured in Pascal to a deep distrust of human reason, in part, perhaps, from anti-Protestant motives.

He had left Oxford just before the beginning of that Catholic revival which has transfigured both the inner spirit and the outward aspect of the Church of England.

So far as this main point of transfigured realism is steadily maintained, it is a compound of idealism and realism, but not materialism.