The brutal and instantaneous transformation of their mood is one Americans can only too easily recognize.

The instantaneous transformation brought a momentary hush to the mob.

This was the instantaneous transformation of several silk handkerchiefs into a huge banner bearing a silver dragon.

He might have arranged an instantaneous transformation to take the place of the blackout between Scenes Two and Three.

"It's unrealistic to expect an instantaneous transformation," he said.

It was an instantaneous and horrible transformation, as she made a crouching step backwards.

The maître d's expression underwent an almost instantaneous transformation.

The Greens, by contrast, remain psychologically rooted in the 60's dream of instantaneous social transformation.

At that moment, the rest of humanity will experience the instantaneous transformation of a proportion you cannot now conceive.

He took a deep breath and another instantaneous transformation took place, an immediate sobering.