calcify

1 Entering the regular season finale, the new reality is much more calcified for the Warriors.

2 These artists and records might have been considered groundbreaking first time around, but they now exist in an entirely risk-free environment, upgraded and calcified for our consumption.

3 The mud became shale; beachlike sands morphed into sandstone; and calcified sea creatures became limestone.

4 In the end, it’s not whiteness and blackness that Key and Peele are spoofing, but the cliches that have grown calcified around those notions: White people are stiff and soulless; black people are violent criminals.

5 Jimmy, on the other hand – as he flakes away – what’s left calcifies into a guy that I know we’re going to like a whole lot less.

6 As the relative artistic freedom and flux of the 1920s calcified into the era of Stalinist directives, Babel's production slowed.

7 A spark flew where the steel bit into the stone man’s calcified grey flesh, but his arm tumbled to the deck all the same.

8 TB can also lead to a granulomatous pericarditis that may calcify and produce a "constrictive" pericarditis.

TB还可以导致肉芽肿性心包炎，进而可能钙化和产生缩窄性心包炎。

9 But at the time the book opens, things have calcified.

10 Those advocating new methods say that, like the finest auteurs, they've discovered a way to reinvent a form long thought calcified.

11 Some awards mean more than others, though, and while prestige often tends to calcify our ideas about what constitutes greatness, the Pulitzer committee has stepped up to recognize the worthiness of Lamar’s work.

12 Certainly, a powerhouse institution like Lincoln Center, in America’s cultural capital, could come up with something fresher each summer than a calcified festival offering listlessly played performances of boring programs under the banner of Mozart.

13 “I thought by now, after five months of this, that my soul had calcified into a crouton. Not true.”

14 There’s a giddy innocence in his eyes here that would calcify within the decade into a businessman’s shrewdness.

15 “I can’t get modern music to enter either my head or my heart! I’m too old, and my faculties have calcified,” he wrote to Ada.

16 AGS warped and calcified parts of his infantile brain, causing brain damage.

17 Everybody gets pigeonholed and calcified into these different camps.

18 Against these we must fight to remain fully human, to resist “the tendency within our breast to harden, calcify, ossify.”

19 When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck.

20 “Knowledge systems seemed so calcified and hierarchical in the conservatory system,” Mr. Tao recalled.

1 使顽固

toughen stiffen

2 硬化

scleroid sclerous sclerotic sclerosed sclerosis hardening ossify vulcanize set cure harden indurate setting calcification cementation induration vulcanization temper stiffen metallize

3 使僵化

fossilise stereo stereotype fossilize

4 僵化

calcification ossification mummify petrifaction fossilize ossify rigidify stereotype petrify benumb frozen fossil stereotyped case-hardened fossilise stereo

5 骨化

ossify osseous

6 变硬

firm harden

7 钙化

calcific calcification

8 顽固

self-opinioned thrawart stiff-hearted hard-nose hard-grained hardmouthed set down tough stiff sticky persistent rocky stubborn pragmatic bullish adamant rebellious die-hard uncompromising heady spiky steely deep-seated unyielding obstinate dogged headstrong opinionated unrepentant strong-willed inveterate ornery unregenerate obdurate rock-ribbed stiff-necked mulish piggish bloody-minded pigheaded hardheaded pertinacious stouthearted blockish self-opinionated brassbound strong-headed opinionative hard-set unpliable unpliant notionate persistence obstinacy induration pertinacity impenitence self-will inveteracy unrepentance toughen stiffen with stiff neck