- a variation of petrifaction.
petrification
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Bart�k wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism.
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But their own nostalgic prettifications are hardly more realistic, or penetrating.
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