All 6 Uses of
expedient
in
Atlas Shrugged
- -that we must act on the expediency of the moment-you don't want to risk your job, do you?
Chpt 1.7 *expediency = an action that is speedy or practical
- It will be destroyed, because it was the best and there were men who thought it expedient to seize a share of its wealth.†
Chpt 1.7
- We can't go by rigid principles, we've got to be flexible, we've got to adjust to the reality of the day and act on the expediency of the moment.†
Chpt 2.1
- Go and try to pour a ton of steel without rigid principles, on the expediency of the moment.†
Chpt 2.1
- -that we must act on the expediency of the moment-you don't want to risk your job, do you?†
Chpt 2.7
- The explosion came, oddly, now; it was the scream of a man who would die rather than betray his idea, and it came from a man who had spent his life evading the existence of ideas, acting with the expediency of a criminal.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(expedient) a practical action -- especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical