Sentence examples for was instantly converted from inspiring English sources

At twelve, Ashton saw Pavlova and was instantly converted.

But when I actually went to visit it in Portsmouth I was instantly converted.

Luckily, we both heard two distinct whistlers and I was instantly converted to belief in the reality of a strange new phenomenon".

Whenever I go into Calvin Klein on Madison Avenue, I am instantly converted to Klein's minimalist aesthetic.

Luke insisted on visiting every possible tomb while Daniel and his father (not previously Egyptophiles) were instantly converted, awed and fascinated.

"Vast numbers of people who have seen them have been instantly converted," said Daniel Becker, director for the global-warming and energy program at the Sierra Club, which has undertaken a summer driving tour to demonstrate the technology across the country.

Here a gun-wielding thief is instantly converted by his victim's decency and returns the loot (and hands over his weapon), while a group of soldiers, moments after gawking at a centerfold, implore a comrade to sing a religious hymn.

Imagine, he says, that the sculptor presented the full range of agony described in the poem: "The figure which formerly awakened our sympathy, from the admirable union which it presented of the expression of beauty and pain, is instantly converted into a hideous and unseemly image, from which the spectator will turn away his eyes in disgust".

After a user's account is credited with funds, the money is instantly converted to bitcoin behind the scenes, but still denominated in a traditional currency.

However, at the low arsenic concentrations found in drinking water even before treatment, As V) is instantly converted on ingestion into As III), and the toxicity of dissolved arsenic is therefore in practice independent of oxidation state.

We used to be on the fence about Skrillex, but that was before we saw him play live… let's just say we were instantly converted.