A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
The sensitive lines of his face seemed to petrify as with a desperate resolution he replied: "I fear her mind may be affected by this attack.
The sight of that graven name seemed for an instant to petrify the beholder, and several seconds elapsed ere he was able to command himself sufficiently to speak.
To the Greek, ugliness was dangerous; and the horror of the world, having no explanation nor redress, could but petrify the heart of man.
For it is not passion only, but knowledge, that may petrify the soul.
Petrify a genius:' those who have no genius, employed in works of imagination; those who have, in abstract sciences.
The sexual instinct unless transfigured by love, tends towards death; because the sexual instinct desires to petrify into everlasting immobility what the creative instinct would change and transform.
But there are also instances to show that powerful religions for long periodspetrify a given degree of Culture, and cut off with inexorable sickle everything that still grows on strongly and luxuriantly.
What the verse is to the poet, dialectic thinking is to the philosopher; he snatches at it in order to hold fast his enchantment, in order to petrify it.
