Both Uses of
deflect
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He saw her looking at him, her glance half-question, half-hope, and he added, "When the creed of self-immolation has run, for once, its undisguised course-when men find no victims ready to obstruct the path of justice and to deflect the fall of retribution on themselveswhen the preachers of self-sacrifice discover that those who are willing to practice it, have nothing to sacrifice, and those who have, are not willing any longer-when men see that neither their hearts nor their muscles…†
Chpt 3.1
- The method was to refuse to deflect retribution.†
Chpt 3.7 *
Definition:
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(deflect) turn aside from a fixed direction or line of interest