Andorin's face hardened suddenly, an instant conversion from friendly interest to stern decision.

Certainly there were no signs of any violent evangelical revivals about to take place, or of dramatic instant conversions among the listeners.

When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the late 1530's, the Abbot of Buckland Abbey, to save his own skin, underwent instant conversion to Protestantism.

He did the instant mental conversion: five days for six hundred billion kilometers meant about five hundred g's.

Maybe even Saddam Hussein himself would choose instant conversion to love for his country and for peace.

Most other skeptics are not likely to experience instant conversion.

Mr. Rosenbaum did not expect instant conversions, much less wholesale reform of the profession or legal education.

I bought the $50 Dverty Board, which allows instant conversion between Dvorak and Qwerty.

Brown performed seemingly 'instant conversions' on a group consisting of members of the public, almost all of whom were atheists and non-believers.

Like I said, there was no blinding flash, no instant conversion.