- a variation of petrifaction.
petrification
Example Sentences
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Yet the canonization of so-called experimental films in universities is precisely the reason both for these films’ endurance and for their petrification.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 21, 2016
In the current issue of The New Yorker In an article entitled “When G.M. Was Google,”Nicholas Lemann argues that Google is now succumbing the petrification of bureaucracy.
From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2014
It’s finding a structure that leads to growth and transformation, not petrification.
From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2014
Two years ago, invited to appear on a BBC-TV interview, he went on camera paralyzed to the point of petrification.
From Time Magazine Archive
What lay ahead of me was worse than petrification.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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