A sadistic sexual predator is transformed in an instant into her victim.
This evening of Beethoven chamber music fell in an instant into the latter category.
Genial young Sergio from Mexico City vanished in an instant into eyeless, predatory Niebla Roja (Red Fog).
Mann's happy-face buoyancy fades, in an instant, into resentment and malice — the switch to a mean tongue is her favorite comic device.
The twist at the heart of innocence is that it must not admire itself, or even know itself, lest it change in an instant into something smug and preening.
Barnes's scrutiny of the feet of the firing squad in Manet's The Execution of Maximilian suggests that he could expand this single, fatal instant into a voluminous historical novel.
Sieff called this the freezing of the instant into the permanence of effigy, the creation of "so many small whitestones helping us, according to our mood, rediscover feelings and forgotten faces".
If there was one thing that characterized the Chicago cops, it was energy, tremendous energy, a high pitch of personal energy, and a nonchalance that could change on the instant into white-faced fury.
With a flawless onscreen beauty that can dissolve in an instant into gamine sexiness, she has proved equally adept at playing the highborn costume-drama demoiselle and the contemporary siren.
At midnight, David Guetta, the D.J. who runs the hottest dance floors of Ibiza, took over the music, transforming the space in an instant into a dance club, which was when Mr. Cavalli finally made his way into the crowd, a walking photo opportunity that rarely afforded a moment to say more than hello.
But Lord Feldman will no doubt have schooled Mr. Cameron for the moments when Mr. Jay's performance morphs in an instant into that of a mordant inquisitor, his stinging questions invariably accompanied by the mollifying words — "If I can be forgiven for putting it that way" — of an accomplished courtroom performer, now familiar to millions of British television viewers after months of hearings.
