Sentences with phrase «damascene conversion»

As was argued here, this fusion of environmentalism and advocacy of nuclear power looks less like a Damascene conversion, and more like a Reformation.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

He was describing his Damascene conversion following a foray into a high quality US homebuilder just before the housing bubble burst:

But not all of his colleagues were convinced by their leader's Damascene conversion.

Has there really been a Damascene conversion on Labour's part?

In the end it is difficult not to be delighted at the appearance of this seemingly Damascene conversion to the political centre.

Not that Corybn is alone on the issue — Jeremy Hunt, disastrously enough, used to be of the same persuasion before he had a sudden Damascene conversion upon becoming health secretary.

The MP for Huddersfield explained his Damascene conversion: «I started looking at the evidence and research, and rather than bringing life into the regions, it would suck more life out of the regions into London and the south - east.

If I, as a journalist on an impartial political website, have a Damascene conversion to Toryism and insist on only spouting the party line, I would not be able to do my job.