| One consequence of focusing on the process is that we know it is incorrect to say petrification takes millions of years. |
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| Maisie received in petrification the full force of her mother's huge and painted eyes-they were like Japanese lanterns swung under festal arches. |
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| Do we suffer petrification through continued stasis and inertia or do we trust our inner, creative, inspirational, communal selves and take on the challenge of change? |
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| Chalisse looked at her chosen man and saw his petrification. |
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| Not surprisingly, Christopher also grew up troubled: bright, handsome, but emotionally inhibited to the point of petrification. |
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| It is a substance of petrification at plant and animal fossil lzs. |
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| When Adèle sits at the dinner table with her parents as they watch television, their passive petrification in the image is largely formed by the game-show host's voice. |
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| Materials scientists have turned wood into stone, mimicking in a single workweek a natural petrification process that takes millions of years. |
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| And the branzino special, though a bit bland, remained perfectly moist, which is more than can be said about the hardened shrimp marinara and a pork chop well on its way to petrification. |
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| In pursuit of his many groundbreaking discoveries — on combustion, petrification, mechanical engineering — he did some weird stuff, like blowing air down the throats of dogs and making their lungs explode. |
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| It's a reminder that while the draconian policing of the Beckett estate too often leads to the petrification of the stage works, the pieces never intended for performance can be reimagined and reinvented in compelling ways. |
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| The miserable contemplative manias of the reign of mass passivity must not be able to find any organizational petrification to get their grips on. |
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