| Its element of positive realization acts like dead labor on living process: it petrifies everything. |
| The idea of serving a scotch egg without any sort of garnish, allowing it to stand or fall on its own merits, petrifies chefs. |
| When you're teaching yourself, the thought of somebody sitting in front of you half-naked just petrifies you.' But now, surely, he could do it? |
| He petrifies his enemies and inflicts them with terrible tremblings that slow them down considerably. |
| I don't understand this phenomenon that jump starts my brain in animated conversation or heated exchange and petrifies it to molasses when I ask it to be creative. |
| It plays with the ambiguity of the mask and the helmet, it wants to scare or seduce, it petrifies or invents expressions. |
