Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
New York. . . is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
I was petrified. I was afraid that the cupboard was bare.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
I don't want to have it connote the image that we're petrified. We want to promote an image that we are strong and stable, yet current and flexible. It's a fine balance.
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.
I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
How many thorns of human nature hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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