Siddhartha Mukherjee

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.

Indian Scientist

Richard Powers

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

American Novelist

Trevor Paglen

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.

American Artist

Swara Bhaskar

I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.

Indian Actress

Robert Smithson

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Clement Freud

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

British Writer

Used when something physically thickens or hardens, especially when cooled.

Physical change

The action of congealing happens over time, not instantly.

Gradual process

The word often evokes a clear visual image of a substance's texture changing.

Visual imagery

Used metaphorically to describe ideas or situations becoming stuck or unprogressive.

Metaphorical use

When related to thoughts or concepts, it implies a lack of flexibility or openness to change.

Implies rigidity

Emphasizes that there's little or no movement forward or development.

Emphasizes stagnation

 it has congealed into this endangered people's movement that was missing in the 20th century. It sees itself, such as it is, the it, as something that will create the impression that there will be political cost, there will be a political price to be paid,

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 quickly distinct things begin to appear in that blur within the first second energy itself shatters into distinct forces including electromagnetism and gravity and energy does something else quite magical it congeals to form matter