Concretions

These arrested and recognisable ideas, concretions of similars succeeding one another in time, are not abstractions; but they may come to be regarded as such after the other kind of concretions in experience, concretions of superposed perceptions in space, have become the leading objects of attention. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

As to abstinence education again, and sex education in general, to further emphasize the cultural and moral/ethical concretions mentioned above, it was Muggeridge who noted “Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

If bowel sounds are absent, at least one dose of activated charcoal can be administered and then removed by lavage within two hours in order to avoid concretions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Renal stones develop when abnormal concretions of calculi form in the kidneys or bladder, becoming impacted and sometimes obstructing the flow of urine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some thus remain, anxiously pouring their sacrifices over these concretions. ❋ Allen, Richard (2009)

Andrew Bland, Oregon, Prepping out of concretions. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)

On a slightly less pretentious note, I very much agree with the need to educate people about concretions--most I've met tend to be very understanding about it. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)

And there are usually some pretty interesting storied that accompany most concretions. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)

As anyone who has ever had the pleasure of identifying fossils for the public we all know for every real fossil someone brings in you usually get a barrel full of concretions that people also brought in. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)

Some of these concretions can be pretty cool looking and are interesting rocks/minerals on their own without needing to pretend to be a fossil. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)

Through such “transferences” of emotion, the six orientations develop content; like physical concretions, they coalesce, as emotional energies are bonded together. ❋ Allen, Richard (2009)

Following Newton, Hales believed “forces of attraction and repulsion” to be the basis of physical nature, and through various chemical experiments he demonstrated that solid concretions, including bladder stones, were compounds that had locked within themselves large quantities of “air,” which normally manifests a strongly repelling force. ❋ Allen, Richard (2009)

Intensity of rains and high humidity in the region explains the exceptionally large size and degree of development of the caves and associated concretions: stalactites, stalagmites, curtains and pillars. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Spain — is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

UPON RETURNING from a two-year pilgrimage to the California desert in the late '30s, the photographer Edward Weston exclaimed, "From sandstone concretions around the Salton Sea ... to the badlands of Death Valley, there is enough material to keep a hundred photographers busy for years to come." ❋ Unknown (2008)