To say that it came from spirit or God is totally justified, but the brain also played its part, for this incident began with everyday brain processes--thoughts, emotions, dreams, doubts--that finally crystallized into inspiration.

It was the loss of the Foxer on Wednesday, 12 December, which had finally crystallized Trevellion's thoughts.

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

That notion started forming Tuesday night, took shape Wednesday and finally crystallized in the eighth inning Thursday, when Crisp made one of the more sensational catches seen in Boston this season.

That knowledge had been the thing, more than any other, which had finally crystallized Bespi's growing disillusionment with the Milanese.

The opposition to the Jews was finally crystallized and found definite expression in the repressive Lithuanian statute of 1566, when the Lithuanian nobles were first allowed to take part in the national legislation.

This has been the summer that liberal discontent with Obama has finally crystallized.

Something had been nagging at the back of her mind, and it had finally crystallized.

He ordered Marshall to come to him in the Control Central after Bell had made some more or less practical suggestions on the basis of which the actual plan was finally crystallized.

In some ways, the battle for Europe has finally crystallized the distinctions that have kept Britain aloof from the Franco-German social vision of the Continent - and therefore from the closer integration of the euro single currency - for years.