Crystallised

“Moping herself to death”: the phrase crystallised in his brain with such suddenness that he said it aloud. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Since the idea crystallised five years ago, Sussman has been travelling the globe with one aim in mind: to photograph the oldest living things in the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Labour trouble in Great Britain turns wholly upon the idea crystallised in the one word "profiteer." ❋ Unknown (1906)

They found that 40% of the variation in knowledge (called "crystallised intelligence" by the researchers) and 51% of the variation in problem-solving skills ("fluid-type intelligence") between individuals could be accounted for by the differences in DNA. ❋ Alok Jha (2011)

This word crystallised everything I had been feeling for years. ❋ Paul Kingsnorth (2010)

My perspective here is to make them more so, not to create a separate universe where they are held in a kind of crystallised suspension, which might be understood or felt by some to be patrionising and limiting in its own way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She noticed also that the sugar was of the 'crystallised' kind, and was in a curiously chiselled silver bowl. ❋ Unknown (1881)

They say there is evidence that memory training can improve fluid intelligence in adults, but whether it can improve acquired skills, such as crystallised intelligence and academic attainment, has yet to be established.

But there were also the first signs of fraying within the German-led camp as the fundamental fight crystallised into one between Berlin and Frankfurt – with the German government backed by the Netherlands, Finland and Austria, and the ECB supported by France and the Mediterranean countries. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whatever way I may act, I must first settle with my crystallised criteria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, negotiating skills depend more on crystallised intelligence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his; when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding; when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These criteria, I say, became crystallised, became automatic in my thought processes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Evidence shows that crystallised intelligence increases with age, remains stable, and doesn't begin to diminish until after the age of 65. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The effect, crystallised in last week's events, has been to force the GAA to make an explicit choice. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Miéville's passions crystallised early on: Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings . . . ❋ Unknown (2011)

That crystallised many Republicans' suspicions that the Nobel committee is controlled by conceited pink-tinged European socialist extremists. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In collating his observations, Marsham, a friend of the more famous naturalist Gilbert White, crystallised a British fascination. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From the cornice below the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral was recently taken a solid deposit of crystallised sulphate of lime. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though politicians gnash their teeth and cry anathema, and man, whose superficial book-learning is vitiated by crystallised prejudice, assures us that civilisation will go to smash, the trend of society, to-day, the world over, is toward socialism. ❋ Unknown (2010)