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metamorphosis
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  • I mean she was taken away from the Minotaur before she could die. She was turned into a shower of gold, right? That's metamorphosis. Not death.  (source)
    metamorphosis = a complete transformation or change
  • Strangely enough, in some ways Gramps seemed as upset with Dad's metamorphosis as Henry had been.  (source)
    metamorphosis = complete change
  • Metamorphosis.†  (source)
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  • Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.†  (source)
  • His idea of Latin was Caesar subduing the Gauls and crossing the Rubicon, alea iacta est; and, after that, selections from Virgil's Aeneid — he was fond of the suicide of Dido — or from C)vid's Metamorphoses, the parts where unpleasant things were done by the gods to various young women.†  (source)
  • And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!†  (source)
  • The transformations of Ovid's Metamorphoses show up in all sorts of later works, not least in Franz Kafka's story of a man who wakes up one morning to find he's changed into an enormous beetle.†  (source)
  • Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis.†  (source)
  • I'm lying in the grass next to Mother, watching the clouds in their metamorphoses.†  (source)
  • No metamorphosis into a beautiful sad lady?†  (source)
  • One of the first examples that he had learnt in Latin had run: INDIA MITTIT EBUR; and he recalled the shrewd northern face of the rector who had taught him to construe the Metamorphoses of Ovid in a courtly English, made whimsical by the mention of porkers and potsherds and chines of bacon.†  (source)
  • It was a drastic metamorphosis, both mental and physical, and it would have been difficult enough in fine weather.†  (source)
  • My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.†  (source)
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