preserve in aspic

I think that he got it just about right, but nothing is preserved in aspic.

And the effect is that of an entire city preserved in aspic, for posterity's sake.

Any visitor expecting a Victorian village preserved in aspic is going to be disappointed.

I say taught, but I don't think anyone would call what we did then worth preserving in aspic.

Like many who came of age in the 1960's, I saw my youth preserved in aspic before the decade was even over.

When, inevitably, this staging is replaced, its second act should be preserved in aspic for the education of aspiring designers and directors.

His novel was a sincere attempt at capturing the (then) here and now, but Woodcock's reconstruction too often feels preserved in aspic."

The 'old' Orleans was like a museum: streets, balconies, blues saloons, street musicians, carefully preserved in aspic specially for tourists.

Some self-proclaimed defenders of the constitution present it as sacrosanct, almost a tablet of stone, best preserved in aspic to protect our proud democratic traditions.

By 1914, the County Championship had reached a more or less permanent format and was 'preserved in aspic' during the First World War.

This world of subtle uniforms and unspoken codes is called Locust Valley, a slice of Gatsbyesque, upper-class living, which seems preserved in aspic.

With its geranium-covered cottages, higgledy-piggledy rooftops and idyllic location next to a rushing brook, the medieval village of Lacock seems to have been preserved in aspic since the mid-19th century.

The gist of what she wanted, I think, was for us all to speak as she did, but the truth is that the English language has never been either preserved in aspic or one person's preserve.

Initially, the Acorn Motel, about a half mile down the road from the town center, gave me a bit of a start - the low one-story brick building appeared to have been preserved in aspic since 1950.

At Flatford Mill, Willy Lott's cottage - of the famous Constable painting - is also preserved in aspic and looks a touch forlorn, but Dedham Vale and the Stour Valley still glow.

If you were to create the Lake District environment today, it would rightly be viewed as an act of environmental destruction but because it's been that way for a while, it automatically need to be preserved in aspic and cannot possibly be allowed to change.

It's not that the paintings are untrue but rather that the world in them has in effect been preserved in aspic - the kind used to heighten history in places like Boston's waterfront and the South Street Seaport in Manhattan.

It is logically absurd because all cultures are in constant flux, but it has been commonly observed that expatriate communities often become like a fossil of the original culture, preserving in aspic practices which have changed in the original country of origin.

As our cities and communities disintegrate, Americans seem less inclined to repair them than to invest their time and money in Disney's Main Street, U.S.A., where a romanticized vision of our lost towns, clean and crime-free and always jolly, is preserved in aspic and acted out by performers.

Greg Clark, the Planning Minister, stokes the row in interviews with the Financial Times and on Radio 4, says people who try to "preserve in aspic" their towns and villages are guilty of "nihilistic selfishness" because their objections block the new homes for young people which are badly needed.

On the whole I agree with you - people can be very precious about language, and tend to think of the language as they were taught it as being the perfect state which should be preserved in aspic for all time, while of course in actual fact language is continually evolving through a process of natural selection, like life.