Le roi d ' Ys, an opera by the French composer Édouard Lalo which premiered in 1888, transforms the story significantly, replacing the figure of Dahut with Margared, whose motive for opening the gates ( with the aid of her own betrothed Karnac ) is her jealousy at Rozenn's marriage to Mylio ( characters who are also inventions of Lalo ).

The film largely consisted of a stick figure moving about and encountering all manner of morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that transforms into a flower.

Jimmy Olsen shoots himself with a syringe gun containing a formula marked " Do Not Open Until Doomsday ", and transforms into a hulking, gray skinned figure with bony protrusions.

Due to what is later described in the series as his " juice " ( his inborn source of magic ), whenever Beetlejuice utters aloud a figure of speech, he or his surroundings change to act on the pun ( for example, if he says he is tired, he will transform into a tire ; if he says he is flat broke, he transforms into a flat disc that falls to the ground and shatters ; on one occasion, in reference to his own power, he declares " This literal translation stuff slays me!

: A Deluxe class figure that transforms from snow plow truck to robot.

: A Deluxe sized figure that transforms from Cybertronian car to robot.

The figure transforms into a Strato Blue Mazdaspeed II Mazda RX-8 with Shockwave's familiar head and gun arm, and also wields a rifle that transforms in the car mode's muffler.

: A poseable Blaster figure that transforms into a Toshiba Satellite laptop that also doubles as a working 4-port USB hub.

The figure transforms into a three-wheeled racing car, and, with the insertion of his " Golden Disk holder " key ( a redecoed Cyber Key ) into its port, its deploys two massive missile-firing cannons over his shoulders.

The figure transforms into a pale imitation of the character's dragon mode, reflecting Megatron's attempts to purge his organic beast mode in the show.

With a new headsculpt of Megatron's traditional design, representing Megatron in his original Cybertronian body before acquiring his Tyrannosaurus mode, the figure transforms into a rocket-launching armored vehicle and, with the insertion of the toy's " Golden Disk holder " key ( a redecoed Cyber Planet Key ) into its port, the rocket splits open to reveal a launching missile.

Much like the original G1 toy, this figure transforms into a motorcycle, but features an asymmetrical limb design.

: A Voyager sized figure that transforms from garbage truck to robot.

Marked with " Do Not Open Until Doomsday ", Jimmy Olsen injects himself the formula and transforms into a hulking, gray skinned figure with bony protrusions.

: First seen in the second season episode " A Fistful of Energon ", this figure is a complete remold of Deluxe Prowl with more points of articulation and a sidecar that transforms into his samurai-themed armor.

This pool of blood transforms itself into a sheltered bay where a human figure on a yellow raft comes into sight.

: A Deluxe-sized figure with intricate detail and articulation that transforms into a Suzuki Swift.

: A Deluxe-sized figure of Buzz Lightyear that transforms into his spaceship, with his head becoming a small pilot figure.

: A new Deluxe figure of Dirge that transforms into a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II jump jet.

He soon transforms into a figure with a robe, and begins to make noises like a pipe organ, and then transforms into a church-like structure with an onion dome.

For this reason, he appears as an independent and self-reliant figure, whose rugged individualism need not be pressed into the mold of a 9 to 5 routine.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

He was all of these rolled into one sturdy figure ; ;

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

They rode around and around to trample the figure into the sand.

Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.

A rough ostinato figure, heard first in the introduction to the inn scene, characterizes him amusingly and reappears whenever he comes into the action:

The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.

He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

The mercy that Christ infused into Mosaic Law underlies the injury tariffs that figure so prominently in barbarian law codes, since Christian synods " established, through that mercy which Christ taught, that for almost every misdeed at the first offence secular lords might with their permission receive without sin the monetary compensation, which they then fixed.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

The Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

) Amestris has often been identified with Vashti, but this identification is problematic, as Amestris remained a powerful figure well into the reign of her son, Artaxerxes I, whereas Vashti is portrayed as dismissed in the early part of Xerxes's reign.

While he did well in Las Vegas and other areas, and made records for the Kapp Records label, he was largely a forgotten figure — even though inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968.

This led the key figure in organizing the resistance, Paul Kruger, into conflict with the British.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

When the cost of transportation is taken into account, the figure rises to 200, 000 square kilometers ...".

Factors including late intake valve closure ( relatively speaking for camshaft profiles outside of typical production car range, but not necessarily into the realm of competition engines ) can produce a misleadingly low figure from this test.

If a compression test does give a low figure, and it has been determined it is not due to intake valve closure / camshaft characteristics, then one can differentiate between the cause being valve / seat seal issues and ring seal by squirting engine oil into the spark plug orifice, in a quantity sufficient to disperse across the piston crown and the circumference of the top ring land, and thereby effect the mentioned seal.

Male characters rarely figure into these stories, and scholars often consider them in counterpoint to male oriented creation myths, like those of the ex nihilo variety.

It was the ideals that David linked to his Hercules that single-handedly transformed the figure from a sign of the old regime into a powerful new symbol of revolution.

During his period in Canada Sapir came into his own as the leading figure in linguistics in America.

Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).