All 11 Uses of
mirth
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She laughed, in the same brusque, mirthless way.†
Chpt 1.7
- He smiled mirthlessly, spreading his hands out, as if to show her that this was what he had predicted and had wanted to avoid.†
Chpt 1.7
- The bum grinned mirthlessly and shrugged: "Who is John Galt?"†
Chpt 1.10
- He felt, with a touch of mirthless amusement, that the gun had been needed at the mills, not in the peaceful safety of loneliness and night; what could some starving vagrant take from him, compared to what had been taken by men who claimed to be his protectors?†
Chpt 2.7
- She smiled mirthlessly, knowing that he wondered where she had come from and that no explanation he could imagine would be as fantastic as the truth.†
Chpt 3.3
- Then she dropped her head for an instant, smiling in mirthless amusement at herself.†
Chpt 3.4
- The boy's mouth jerked suddenly into the brief, mirthless twist of a smile.†
Chpt 3.5
- It took them a few stunned seconds to grasp it, while the cheerful, thumping chords went goose-stepping through the silence, sounding grotesquely irrelevant, like the mirth of a half-wit.†
Chpt 3.8
- "It was John Galt," she said, with a faint, mirthless chuckle.†
Chpt 3.8
- Kinnan chuckled mirthlessly.†
Chpt 3.8
- Lawson leaped to his feet, with a sudden, mirthful grin, and ran out of the room.†
Chpt 3.9 *
Definition:
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(mirth) fun and laughter