concretised

But he warned that the deal would collapse if these guarantees were not "concretised".

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

Besides, the ever-wonderful Al Robertson and Heather Lindsley had offered to put me up that night before the plans were concretised with Brighton first on the agenda.

Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Besides, the ever-wonderful Al Robertson and Heather Lindsley had offered to put me up that night before the plans were concretised with Brighton first on the agenda.

Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Brighton Go Boom Hal Duncan 2010

Which is to say, as often as not the conceptual dislocation is literalised, concretised in the notion of an actual alterior realm with a different nomology (different laws of nature) to those on which our world is run.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.

Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008

The narrative grammar at work in SF can be the articulation of an argument between the ruling paradigm of the world as is -- or as we think it is -- and an alternative paradigm of the world as it is reconstructed by and filtered through a matrix of conceits, extended and concretised metaphors, the points of difference highlighting, figuratively or by exaggeration, the precise defects of that ruling paradigm.

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

If we take away the distinctive feature of the strange (novum or otherwise) used as extended and concretised metaphor to integrate plot and theme, do we have anything more than a model of narrative itself?

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

If we take away the distinctive feature of the strange (novum or otherwise) used as extended and concretised metaphor to integrate plot and theme, do we have anything more than a model of narrative itself?

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

The narrative grammar at work in SF can be the articulation of an argument between the ruling paradigm of the world as is -- or as we think it is -- and an alternative paradigm of the world as it is reconstructed by and filtered through a matrix of conceits, extended and concretised metaphors, the points of difference highlighting, figuratively or by exaggeration, the precise defects of that ruling paradigm.

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008