Definition of "transfiguring" [transfiguring]

• Present participle of transfigure. (verb)

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• "I was thrilled, for instance, by David Cromer's insufficiently appreciated Broadway production of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves" and the Keen Company's long-overdue Off-Broadway mounting of Lanford Wilson's "Lemon Sky," staged with transfiguring intensity by Jonathan Silverstein."
• "His strategy is finely honed and remarkably effective, transfiguring hackneyed, second-hand images to deliver a fresh psychological jolt."
• "Perhaps then the church that seeks to be the body of Christ should forgo the quest for closure but seek instead to be a community that longs for healing transformation, not by ignoring its own wounds but by transfiguring those wounds into sites of and for communion."