All 6 Uses of
rupture
in
Anna Karenina
- Again, just as at the first moment of hearing of her rupture with her husband, Vronsky, on reading the letter, was unconsciously carried away by the natural sensation aroused in him by his own relation to the betrayed husband.†
Part 3
- Bad as this might be, it was anyway better than a rupture, which would put her in a hopeless and shameful position, and deprive him of everything he cared for.†
Part 4 *
- One consolatory reflection upon her conduct had occurred to her at the first moment of the final rupture, and when now she recalled all the past, she remembered that one reflection.†
Part 5
- His natural feeling urged him to defend himself, to prove to her she was wrong; but to prove her wrong would mean irritating her still more and making the rupture greater that was the cause of all his suffering.†
Part 5
- Another feeling, even stronger, impelled him as quickly as possible to smooth over the rupture without letting it grow greater.†
Part 5
- …would go now, whether to the aunt who had brought her up, to Dolly, or simply alone abroad, and of what he was doing now alone in his study; whether this was the final quarrel, or whether reconciliation were still possible; and of what all her old friends at Petersburg would say of her now; and of how Alexey Alexandrovitch would look at it, and many other ideas of what would happen now after this rupture, came into her head; but she did not give herself up to them with all her heart.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(rupture) to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument