But on allowing these hybrids to cross-fertilize one another in the usual way. From Wordnik.com. [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference
Here's an exception I'd like to share - a seriously misjudged attempt to cross-fertilize genres. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
They are willing to switch parties and cross-fertilize for someone they think is telling the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Donahue: Voter Takes All] Reference
When there are hundreds of companies around, with workers more likely to change jobs, ideas can cross-fertilize. From Wordnik.com. [Serendipitous Connections] Reference
Mike Moorcock has said that one of his ambitions for New Worlds was to cross-fertilize the popular and literary traditions. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)] Reference
Professor Lake: I can't see any reason, but that if there are present any of the native trees, they are bound to cross-fertilize. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
The two genres don't play off each other or give each other a fresh spin; they awkwardly coincide and never truly cross-fertilize. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Four and Five: Mike Leigh's New Gem and Inside Job Rocks The Fest] Reference
And they said, Indeed, these walls are down, these barriers are down, we need this kind of ability to cross-fertilize and to link up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2002] Reference
In the distant years after these first years, the tribes will grow more numerous and come together, and cross-fertilize in body and in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
At the same time, we need to learn to network effectively so that great local experimental successes, like busy bees, can cross-fertilize others rather than simply being admired in isolation and cited in academic and "pedagogical" literature for the quality of their too rare honey. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Future] Reference
Adams is deeply interested in the broader musical dimensions of culture, how pop music and classical music coexist and sometimes cross-fertilize, how composers need audience feedback, how musical generations succeed one another and how some artists will fight quixotic battles to their dying day, holding true to avant-garde orthodoxy no matter how isolating it is. From Wordnik.com. [A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else] Reference
But the flies which cross-fertilize this plant seem to be uninjured by its nectar. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Ideas from one may cross-fertilize the thinking of another, yielding breakthroughs. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
When simplicity and humility cross-fertilize, a life becomes transformed, not to mention recession-proof. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News]
And because this is America, where it's all about customization, you could of course cross-fertilize between the two. From Wordnik.com. [Politics Daily] Reference
Morton, 53, worries that sugar beet pollen can cross-fertilize table beet and Swiss chard plants, both of which he grows for seed. From Wordnik.com. [News for NBC13.com] Reference
The event will aim to cross-fertilize initiatives around the issue of 'Free, Libre and Open Software at the heart of the Digital Recovery'. From Wordnik.com. [SourceWire Press Release Wire] Reference
InfoSphere and Tivoli software portfolios, together with assorted miscellaneous other components, it's enabling all of these distinct efforts to cross-fertilize. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Director.com] Reference
The intense, immersive environment allows attendees and speakers from vastly different fields to draw inspiration from unlikely places and cross-fertilize their ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Kenyanpoet - A Kenyan Artistic Space] Reference
"Umbrella Man" is not only based on a novel and on a screenplay of that novel, it actually is that screenplay, put right on stage, in a risky attempt to cross-fertilize the two very different media. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
In the early 1960s, novel concepts from the quantum field theory of solids - which had flourished quite independently for several years - were able to cross-fertilize back into the field of particle physics. From Wordnik.com. [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference
What happens on the two days a week we're open tends to be much more than old-school library use-the library is really a collaborative workspace where ideas sprout, discussions happen and projects cross-fertilize. From Wordnik.com. [AIGA: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design] Reference
Since it may probe from any point of the circle, it is quite likely that the side of the tongue that touched a pollen-laden anther in one flower will touch the stigma in the next one visited, and so cross-fertilize it. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Featuring four conferences, this summit will bring together companies and academics from different disciplines to cross-fertilize ideas, share new data, and discuss strategies that will help turn promising molecules into products. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
To save the nectar in each deep tube for the moths and butterflies which cross-fertilize all this tribe of night and day blossoms, most of them -- and the campions are notorious examples -- spread their calices, and some their pedicels as well, with a sticky substance to entrap little crawling pilferers. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Spring traps, adhesive plasters, and hair-triggers attached to explosive shells of pollen are among the many devices by which orchids compel insects to cross-fertilize them, these flowers as a family showing the most marvellous mechanism adapted to their requirements from insects in the whole floral kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
He has shown us most convincingly how the several literary forms, -- the lyric, the oration, the epic, with its illegitimate descendant, the modern novel in prose, -- may cross-fertilize each other from time to time, and also how the casual hybrids that result are ever struggling to revert each to its own species. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
Such things cross-fertilize in the mind, and I’m usually surprised by what emerges. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
We can't of course cross-fertilize, "and to Kris 'surprise, Dorothy ducked her head to hide a flush. From Wordnik.com. [Freedoms Challenge]
Perhaps he has not seen Grass's short comments and would enjoy knowing that another of our prominent living writers is observing how both disciplines, drawing and writing, "cross-fertilize hermaphroditically . From Wordnik.com. [The Itch] Reference
You round up experts, each in their own areas, and then you cross-fertilize. ". From Wordnik.com. [Home News Tribune - News] Reference
"When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of. From Wordnik.com. [Vulpes Libris] Reference
Madagascar substantially as follows: "Upon your theory of evolution through natural selection all the various contrasting structural features of the orchids have direct reference to some insect which shall best cross-fertilize them. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
FormShift's professional advisor, architect Walter Francl, is hoping this competition will draw out new ways of thinking about densification: "This is a marvelous opportunity to cross-fertilize the ideas of designers here with architects and urban planners from elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Tyee - Home] Reference
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