Crossword-Solution: PETRIFICATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petrification | n. | See Petrifaction. |
| Petrification | n. | Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
ATGAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
8 +2
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Sentences with PETRIFICATION (5)
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.
Only after Andrea had clearly thought about all of this, with the cold clairvoyance which comes upon people in all decisive hours when all comfort disappears, the petrification of his body receded.
When she saw him, in fatalistic reverie, going about ten years hence attached to the body of this petrification, she was almost disposed to abandon the pair, to let them take their wretched chance.
Tom, who is evidently admired in his family circle as a man of great humor, has so cultivated that faculty that it presents an abnormal development, and if petrification ever does overtake him, posterity may hope it will not operate upon his intellectual faculties.
From some peaks they caught glimpses of other towns that had fallen under the strange spell of the petrification.
Quotes with PETRIFICATION (3)
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
Rarely do wonder tales end unhappily. They triumph over death. The tale begins with "Once upon a time" or "Once there was" and never really ends when it ends. The ending is actually the beginning. The once upon a time is not a past designation but futuristic: the timelessness of the tale and its lack of geographical specificity endow it with utopian connotations - "utopia" in its original meaning designated "no place," a place that no one had ever envisaged. We form and keep …
There is no such thing as passive receiving of Tradition. He who receives, the disciple, is always — must always be — the scene of a creation. To receive is to create, to innovate! 'The petrification of acquired knowledge — the freezing of spiritual things — allowing itself to be placed like an inert content in the mind and to be handed on, frozen, from one generation to another, is not real transmission….' Handing on is 'resumption, life, invention and renewal, a mode withou…