It was as if the peace of his past days had been transformed abruptly into umbrage and leper's vehemence.

In 589, the course of the war was abruptly transformed.

Ormerod's battle cry was abruptly transformed into a grunt of pain.

The vagrant's hideous face, writ large on this oversize golem, was abruptly transformed from flesh and hair into a highly detailed monochromatic brown countenance that appeared to have been sculpted from clay or mud.

He ran around like a thing wild for 20 minutes, and then, upon the depletion of his very last joule of energy, abruptly transformed into Cranky Frankie.

Suddenly, combustion of fossil fuels for transportation, power generation, industrial processes, and heating our homes has been abruptly transformed from a great solution to a huge problem.

While Mr. Royster's recent life had demonstrated few glimmers of promise or satisfaction, no one was able to readily point to any convulsive moment that might have abruptly transformed him.

From a long nightmare, Bosnia has been abruptly transformed into the showcase for NATO's transition to crisis manager and peacekeeper, and a testing ground for countries interested in membership.

Mr. Neiley was the first of five people whose lives, abruptly transformed by illness, were described in The New York Times this year in the series "Last Resorts."

A demon could ordinarily take any shape it chose, within broad limits, and Akbar's likeness was now abruptly transformed into that of a young woman.