Until recently, he had been a vibrant icon, seemingly oblivious but suddenly galvanizing into action, carrying the Yankee flame.
An elderly woman got out of the taxi, and, galvanized into action, I ran toward her, shouting, "I know who you are — you are a replica of Augusta Bonnard!
Initially cautious (as enemies of the regime had been executed before), Theramenes and his party were emboldened and galvanized into action by several events.
Still, the major countries have been unable to galvanize themselves into action.
I hope that the voice of UK artistic elite will carry a strong message to the government and galvanize politicians into action.
"A word in the right place, the lifting of a telephone, a friendly note" was enough to galvanize others into action, Mr. Seabrook wrote.
"The decay of American politics," Mr Fukuyama writes, "will probably continue until some external shock comes along to catalyze a true reform coalition and galvanize it into action".
But it took seeing a portrait of Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, the youngest victim of the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., last year, eating an ice cream cone with a child's joyful abandon to galvanize him into action.
It took a recent report on "60 Minutes" to galvanize Congress into action after the program criticized members who made profitable securities trades based on information they had learned on Capitol Hill.
