All 3 Uses of
phase
in
The Great Gatsby
- It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
p. 12..6phase = a period of time or a stage during the development of something
- It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
p. 12..6
- I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
p. 100..7 *
Definition:
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(phase as in: during the first phase) a period of time or a stage during the development of something