petrification

"Well," he snarled, "I suppose I gotta give you cheap skates a drink when I ain't got more'n enough for a good petrification for myself."

The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that dull petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone.

After establishing the links between postmodernism and mannerism, and stressing Banville's awareness of this identification in his use of Baroque paintings in the descriptions that intercalate the narrative, and in his critique of postmodern aesthetics, Tournay argues that Banville's use of mannerist elements in the novel is to be understood as a "reaction to the petrification and deterioration of the postmodern discourse" (2).

of the petrification, the want and the sadness, or at least, they needed certainty in the value of both their own life and collective life.

As it feeds upon its successes, the limitless urge to dye everything one color ends either in counter-revolution, as in China, or petrification, as in North Korea.

Such petrification renders it impossible to be on terms with time: the soil, memorials and the age-old disease of England lure you down along the grey and adamant via negativa of inaction.

Thankfully, we humans weren't around to suffer petrification like the Pompeiians.

clear to me what needed to be done: to report as fully as possible, quoting texts and documents as widely as possible, demonstrating their true voice, freeing them from their later petrification and ideological incrustations." The very next sentence, however, reveals how important the creation of the Soviet order remained in Venturis mind: "I was increasingly convinced that in populism lay the roots, the deepest and truest origins, of contemporary Russia." See Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in 19th-century Russia, trans.

Em razao do objetivo deste estudo, anotou-se um grupo de termos associados ao conceito de declinio de clusters, sendo eles: petrification, saturation, stagnating, exit, exhaustion, decline e declustering.