Sentence examples for state of arrest from inspiring English sources

These chapters, generally narrated in a free indirect style fairly close to interior monologue, tend to linger on a state of arrest or frozen crisis.

Colorimetry-based short-term cytotoxicity assays such as the MTT-assay may underestimate overall cell killing owing to the notion that cells may not die immediately after treatment but may instead remain in a transient state of arrest for several days prior to dying (Brown and Wouters, 1999).

"Student debt has sort of stalled my generation in a state of arrested development," she said.

I think many of us are in a state of arrested development".

But it also reflects a state of arrested psychological and artistic development.

And that thinking is what keeps our programming in a state of arrested development.

"Slowly but surely, the imitative logic of forgery condemned Van Meegeren to a state of arrested development," Lopez writes.

Although a state of arrested development may occur during any stage, diapause occurs most commonly in pupae.

"This is the generation that has fought the hardest to maintain a state of arrested development," Mr. Kurland said.

Gray's Butley is a waspish, self-destructive minor academic living in a permanent state of arrested adolescence.

Though successful enough to maintain a staff that caters to all those personal and professional whims, the couple exist in an anxious state of arrested childhood.