"The thinking becomes ossified, and that takes time to change."

On a nearby table were what looked like ossified sharks.

He bumped into a few ossified regulars, who did nothing.

He was back again in the moment, with this ossified thing that was his body.

Their utopian energy was directed against an ossified state bureaucracy.

This tower of yours looks like an ossified tree stump.

It wants greater parental involvement with the schools than is possible in the present large, bureaucratic and ossified system.

Women who had long since stopped listening except to their own ossified ramblings.

Only in this way can consumers force the government in each country to change its ossified systems.

The Senate is studying whether to change its ossified committee structure in which the flow of intelligence funds means power.

Tragically, Albany's ossified politics seems unable to support that kind of change.

Only the governor can force basic changes in the way an ossified State Legislature does business.

They have the personalities of ossified gnats, and just about as much talent.

It adds to our reputation as an island still constricted by an ossified class system.

The demonstrations by the citizens of these countries against the ossified regimes which hold power have, however, brought hope for permanent political change.

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.

It may be soft or more or less ossified.

The nose is less ossified, and the paired nasal bones are often attached only at their base.

It dwells excessively on the ossified leadership and ignores changes from below.

"There is no way we can be nimble and responsive in the marketplace with an ossified regulatory process."

The ossified order of maturity later destroys that primal richness.

"Oh, as if submitting to the whims of some ossified court is sane?"

With this "ossified" memory in mind, he never expected another dethronement would lead to an insurrection.

And there are a growing number of referendums that circumvent ossified state legislatures.

He called the Johnson administration "a cautionary tale of what happens to a dominant party when its thinking becomes ossified."

When and how had their society ossified into these rigid little boxes?

I thought his mind had ossified a century ago.

If people are afraid of looking at a new idea, we're going to be ossified as an art form."

The human skeleton begins to ossify around the seventh week.

The greater part of the bone is ossified in cartilage.

After he retired, however, his guidelines ossified into a canon.

The disease has the most impact on fish less than five months old because their skeletons have not ossified.

At this late stage, my public career is ossified.

"But the subsidy process for theaters in the state is ossified.

The axis is ossified from five primary and two secondary centers.

But now we need the Gang of 14 back again, because another issue has ossified into abstract ideological debate.

Were we all well adjusted, we would ossify and die.

A primary ossification center is the first area of a bone to start ossifying.

He says Italian television has ossified, with little pay television and almost no cable.

The old religion of ancient Egypt had ossified, and the country was ripe for conversion.

Sooner or later, it ossified and politics carried it into a fall.

The skull must be almost completely ossified to need such power to vibrate the bone.

With Redgrave, it is an identity that has ossified into hard, cold granite.

The layers of his self, which he could have shed in the Abyss, ossify around him.

Young architects revere him - in large part because he has refused to ossify or settle down.

You see, if the Federation doesn't centralize soon, it'll ossify.

Yet these bony plates are not modified scales, but skin that has been ossified.

For example, the skeleton is not fully ossified, consisting largely of cartilage.

Teaching at the university ossified, and an 1807 decree abolished the university.

His face was a hard mask, lips fused to gums and ossified.