All 5 Uses of
ascribe
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I've heard many characteristics ascribed to him, but 'pliable' has never been one of them.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- He seemed to want her to consider him great, but never dare ascribe any specific content to his greatness.†
Chpt 3.4
- A year ago, he would have told himself that this was her way of making amends; he would have choked his revulsion against her words, words which conveyed nothing to him but the fog of the meaningless; he would have violated his mind to give them meaning, even if he did not understand; he would have ascribed to her the virtue of sincerity in her own terms, even if they were not his.†
Chpt 3.6
- The newspapers, like puppets on tangled strings, were shouting with the same belligerence and on the same dates: "It is social treason to ascribe too much importance to Hank Rearden's desertion and to undermine public morale by the old-fashioned belief that an individual can be of any significance to society.†
Chpt 3.7
- No matter what unintelligible causes he ascribes to his incommunicable feelings, whoever rejects reality rejects existence-and the feelings that move him from then on are hatred for all the values of man's life, and lust for all the evils that destroy it, A mystic relishes the spectacle of suffering, of poverty, subservience and terror; these give him a feeling of triumph, a proof of the defeat of rational reality.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(ascribe) attribute or credit to