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phys·i·cal·ize  (fz-k-lz)
tr.v. phys·i·cal·ized, phys·i·cal·iz·ing, phys·i·cal·iz·es
1. To express with the body: physicalize one's emotions.
2. To describe or interpret in physical terms: "a writer who physicalizes everything he feels" (James Wolcott).

physi·cal·i·zation (-k-l-zshn) n.


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From a foreigner in a different country (Heim is from France, Salonen from Finland) to that of a swiftly changing landscape--one shoving us about, by physicalizing these notions--the dancers performed astonishing feats of balance, strength, and agility as they maneuvered the massive metal sculpture from cube to a platform bridge, to a trio of pyramids and a dangerous wall.
By fetishizing the money as an object available to the senses, the brothers transform--if only for a moment--those threatening "greenbacks" (they even use that antiquated and physicalizing term from the gold-standard debates) into a concrete substance, reversing money's trend toward "spiritualization" and essentially denying its function as money.
Left with little choice, they must either mold their actions to accommodate "straight" ways of conceptualizing and physicalizing relationships or else invent their own methods.
 
 
 
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