Meaning of road to Damascus | Babel Free

Definitions

An important point in someone's life where a great change, or reversal, of ideas or beliefs occurs.

attributive, idiomatic, often

Equivalents

Examples

“Today we hear a lot about those who have had what's often called Road to Damascus experiences on every issue from guns and same-sex marriage to the sanctity-of-life and taxes.”

“[…] That was my Road to Damascus moment. They played one hit after another and this is the song I remember most clearly.”

“The candidate is aggressively branding himself as Vernon 2.0, a kinder, gentler Vernon Jones, a bridge builder, a fence mender. Asked by a Rockdale editor about his “road to Damascus moment,” Jones laughs. “I got knocked off my donkey,” he says.”

“One of his biographers, the journalist Paul Vallely, suggested that, in reflecting during this period of exile on his own record under the junta, Francis experienced a road to Damascus moment, and thereafter became a more radical, fearless and outspoken priest. As pope he said on more than one occasion, “the truth is that I’m a sinner” and that as provincial he had had to learn from “my errors along the way””

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