But several events crystallized in the late summer of 1974.

Watching the girl speak, it had finally crystallized in him.

It crystallized a feeling that was in all of us.

"He really helped me crystallize my thinking on a lot of issues."

In the morning she would be gone and his own plans had to crystallize.

"He's really crystallized a lot of interest in the environment."

Here we are at the end of a campaign, and it's just crystallizing.

Coming suddenly into this hot environment might have crystallized the spring.

The work as a whole crystallizes the course taken by American dance.

"Working with kids is the way I was able to crystallize all my ideas about writing," she said.

It happened that I was present when the situation at last crystallized into conflict.

The war in Iraq, many say, has crystallized the value of political engagement.

Beard seemed to have crystallized in his mind, but he wasn't sure yet what would happen to him.

How much more of his father's wisdom would crystallize for him too late?

"Before this we did not know what to crystallize," he said.

By the next day the salt had started to crystallize but the sugar has not.

"The whole thing about women's sports kind of crystallized at that time," she said.

As usual he has crystallized this whole idea and put it very well.

Still, this was the incident that crystallized her thinking, she said.

The debate has crystallized around a policy known here as natural regulation.

It is known as one of the most difficult compounds to crystallize.

One play crystallized the evening, and maybe the Nets' season.

"It crystallizes some of the things we need to do differently."

And what has crystallized their anger is the management of the new operation.

His career was also interrupted right at the moment when it should have crystallized.