All 5 Uses of
illustrious
in
Atlas Shrugged
- "The Twentieth Century Motor Company," said Lee Hunsacker, "was one of the most illustrious names in the history of American industry.†
Chpt 1.10
- If he considered her good enough to bring into the home of his friends, she thought-the illustrious friends whose names she had seen on the inaccessible mountain peaks that were the society columns of the newspapers-she could not embarrass him by wearing her old dress.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- It is precisely because I have not forgotten it that I am speaking, 'Robert Stadler' is an illustrious name, which I would hate to see destroyed.†
Chpt 3.3
- But what is an illustrious name nowadays?†
Chpt 3.3
- -the last descendant of an illustrious name in our industrial history, the woman executive possible only in America, the Operating Vice-President of a great railroad-Miss Dagny Taggart!†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(illustrious) famous and admired; or worthy of admiration