transfigure

The result was, if not a religious experience, then a spiritually transfiguring one.

His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.

At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.

Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.

To transfigure a human villain into a demonic one, ostensibly the ultimate moral indictment, in practice amounts to a kind of cinematic vindication.