ossify

• “The party is both fanatical and well-informed, and thus unlikely either to "ossify" or "grow soft" and collapse.”

  Doublethink

• “At the same time, sure, "ossify" isn't exactly common parlance in most of our everyday exchanges, but it's not like it's a totally insane archaic thing that I dredged out of the OED, nor is Beau Geste this weird name that only the deepest scholars of French Algeria would know about (the movie was pretty big in its time ...).”

  Filter Magazine

• “Woody Allen, like i say, i think of him in similar ways–went from funny-angry to just angry, real exploitive jerk in many ways, and god knows he logged in enough hours on the psych’s couch. i dunno. i think maybe it is a special hazard for people who become famous, but who knows–some people just kind of ossify at a certain point.”

  Harlan Ellison Gropes Connie Willis

• “Once you ossify guidelines into regulations governing payment, you run a great risk of freezing health care advancement.”

  He's Not an Economist, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “This is the static prodigy phenomenon, where early gains ossify into a state of frowning and manfully borne stasis, a condition known in sports science as Huddlestone's Mooch.”

  The Guardian: Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay

• “National insurance was never meant to be indistinguishable from tax; it was meant to be a system of insurance in which all paid in to guard against life's major risks – unemployment, disability and old age – but then allowed to ossify.”

  The Guardian: We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor

• “It should make interesting reading for those who think that the sole purpose of an Academy is to ossify a language and prevent any change.”

  9 posts from October 2009

• “Both Dewey and Eliot are suggesting that without experiment in art and literature, the "supervention of novelty," the great works of the past merely ossify into a "tradition" that no longer inspires artists and writers to, in effect, outdo the "existing monuments," to bring those monuments into active communication with the present.”

  John Dewey's *Art as Experience*

• “Without experiment (without what in some ways could be called "progress" in the arts), art would ossify into dead monuments we are to extoll for their putative greatness but that would not provoke the kind of experiential engagement Dewey thinks is art's ultimate validation.”

  John Dewey's *Art as Experience*

• “It's reminiscent of early 50 Cent, both in its production and in that Giggs 'vocal limitations are strengths and flaws: he raps at one pace only, a slow drawl that can either intensify or just ossify things.”

  The Guardian: Giggs: Let Em Ave It

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