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How to use the word metamorphosis in a Sentence?

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Why do we appreciate the metamorphosis of the butterfly more than the beauty of ageing?

– Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

Some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

– Ben Gazzara

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

– James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

– Harold Rosenberg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

– Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

– Martha Beck

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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