Sentence examples for a willed conversion of from inspiring English sources

But this over investment in something isn't stupid, it is a willed conversion of a commodity into something sacred.

Taking him seriously, as he should be taken, requires a willed suspension of incredulity.

It's a conversion of music to food.

(Desired virtue: a conversion of heart).

It is Nick Adams's tent, but also something of a willed coffin, and Grainier will live here alone for the rest of his life.

Thus the ego now identifies the natural or simple will as its "own" will: the natural stability of the simple will becomes a willed or conscious stability.

Ba-boom!" There was some bravado in his telling of this, but it was obviously a willed thing, because his eyes had a pained expression.

It was a willed blindness; it had to be.

This time round there is no doubting that a strong-willed candidate of change is desired.

He's the former chief economist of the European Central Bank currently advising Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany against a weak-willed bailout of Greece.

The novel possesses a logic of conversion.