alchemize
alchemise BrE

An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

Encountering a band with an ability to effortlessly alchemize classical elements into new and memorable forms was not to be taken lightly.

Once Hillary and Bill both sign up for their memoirs, they'll alchemize from penniless deadbeats into a $15 million conglomerate.

Who else could alchemize a nuanced 40-minute speech on race into must-see YouTube viewing for 20-year-olds?"

The oleaginous Dean's attempt to alchemize these provably false charges into mere technicalities engenders yet more falsity.

We put several houses together in our dreams, alchemize them again in the trance of fiction and build a house that embodies mother, daydream, nightmare, aspiration.

By stressing that totem, Mr. Bush tried to alchemize American anger at Al Qaeda into support for smashing Saddam.

Beyond that, it testified to the fact that a ballet company can thrive only through the labor and commitment, energy and gift that alchemize onstage into enchantment.

On the airwaves, networks like Telemundo and Univision alchemize a Hispanic identity that transcends both region and country.

Indeed, for twerpy adolescent boys lacking the patience to become Nobel Prize-winning diplomats, the last best hope to win the girl has always been to alchemize into rock stars.

"And you feel no debt to the world that made you what you are, no debt to give it now the benefit of your power, to alchemize yourselves from devils into gods!"

While Mr. Wallach has not been accused of any illegality, his story is being viewed by many in Washington as an illustration of how easily high-level connections can alchemize into wealth and political power.

It has compiled an enviable record of buying troubled companies with innovative technology at bargain-basement prices, usually with heavy Government subsidies, and then relying on its design, management and sales skills to alchemize the dross into gold.

But then, the actors must be able to take that undercurrent of emotion and alchemize it "on a dime," Mr. Murray said, "to shift one set of emotional reflexes to another and get a laugh in the process."

A Map Extremely popular in the Denver-Boulder area, this growing local chain is the place to search for a small-batch habanero hot sauce or to alchemize your own spice rub for your self-catering kit.

At night, the studio fast-forwards to the present as a 24-track operation, which has drawn contemporary artists like Bonnie Raitt and U2 who hope to alchemize its magic and benefit from what experts have called the Sun Sound.

One of the things that has made the Potter books so appealing to children and many adults is Ms. Rowling's magpie ability to take archetypes and plot points from myriad sources - myths, fairy tales, children's classics and movies - and alchemize them into something new.

Her journals are filled with exhortations to alchemize the dross of life into the gold of prose (every day, she told herself, write "at least 2 to 3 solid pages describing a remembered incident with characters & conversation & descriptions") and to better herself as a person.

"This is the beginning of a great love affair - between Truman and himself," someone says, but the film suggests that Capote's obsession with the Clutter murders, and his drive to alchemize their ugly pointlessness into deathless prose, might better be described as a Faustian bargain.

On the other hand, if your novel happens to be as finely wrought, deeply felt and mercifully funny as Helen Schulman's "Day at the Beach," then this timing turns out to be an affirming coincidence, allowing us to see how another talented writer can alchemize that same terrible day.

It is difficult to alchemise a live creature out of shadows and flashes and hearsay.

But there is an argument that extending the programme into primary schools will be less successful, as those with subject expertise may not want to alchemise it into the more generalist approach of the primary school all-rounder.