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chrysalis

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Chrysalis is a French science fiction film directed and co-written by Julien Leclercq and starring Albert Dupontel . The film was commercially released in France on 31 October 2007.

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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Butterflies: During winter, caterpillars form a chrysalis . ▪ Chrysalid came from chrysalis , a protective covering, a sheltered state or stage of being or growth. ▪ His armour has become a bandage as stiff as the casing of a ...

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Tachyon, Senator Hartmann, Hiram Worchester, and other important and influential politicians and aces streamed toward the limos waiting for them, while Chrysalis, Wilde, and the other obvious jokers on the tour had to make do with the dirty, dented jeeps clustered at the rear of the cavalcade.

Chrysalis smiled blandly, wishing she was on familiar turf, wishing that she had something to use on this gossipmonger, and wondering, underneath it all, why his interest in Gregg Hartmann?

The chrysalis, however cryptically evil, was these sickly creatures summoned back to the caves and pipes a dripping sewage, over the landfill.

The chrysalis had been hanging from a twig on a birch tree, semitransparent and backlit by a beam of sunlight, so she had been able to see the insect within.

Sleeping bags wriggle like chrysalises as bleary-eyed occupants try to focus on the intruders.

Once inside, though, the cloaks were discarded like so many unwanted chrysalises to reveal Paris couture fashions and jewellery to rival the contents of the Tower of London.

Even fruits and blossoms, and what looked like insect chrysalises and huge gossamer nests, glowed.

She could only hope that, wherever Noon and his classmates had gone, they were someplace very far from the radioactive inferno Chrysalis was about to become.

If neither she nor Seven were deluded, then Chrysalis stood on the verge of implementing evolutionary developments even more significant than she conceived of before.

It was the rough, dull covering of the chrysalis, framed to bear rude contact and biting weather, that the butterfly might break forth, winged and glorious, in due season.

There was a world beyond the grave--there was life out of the chrysalis sleep of death--they would yet be united.

In four short days, his only child was leaving the nest, breaking out of her chrysalis into an exciting new world.

That young lady, reflected Eugenia, had changed overnight, as it were, from a chrysalis into a butterfly.

I am now able to move my fingers inside these chrysalides, but I do not know whether that is good or bad.

The chrysalides put out thousands of fibers that have seemingly completed their connection to my hands, and now I fear they are a part of me, but as to what is happening I do not know.