Both Uses of
rigorous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- People were looking at them with anxious curiosity, with envy, with respect, with the fear of offending an unknown, proudly rigorous standard, some almost with an air of apology that seemed to say: "Please forgive us for being married."†
Chpt 3.5 *
- Every year, at this season, another movement had gone clicking across the country, drawing freight cars from all corners of the continent to the Minnesota Division of Taggart Transcontinental, the beat of train wheels preceding the creak of the wagons, like an advance echo rigorously planned, ordered and timed to meet the flood.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(rigorous as in: we follow a rigorous procedure) thorough and careful procedures