All 50 Uses of
solemn
in
Atlas Shrugged
- What remained of them tonight was only a feeling which he could not name, except that it was quiet and solemn.†
Chpt 1.2
- The vaulting held the solemn peace of a cathedral, spread in protection high above the rushing activity of men.†
Chpt 1.3
- But when the chairman of the meeting raised his hand, as a solemn signal that they were about to vote, everybody looked at Dan Conway, president of the Phoenix-Durango.†
Chpt 1.4
- She said in the solemn, merciless tone of a prosecutor, "You did it consciously, cold-bloodedly and with full intention."†
Chpt 1.5
- The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking.†
Chpt 1.5
- Some part of it was joy, but it was solemn like the act of baring one's head-he did not know to whom.†
Chpt 1.6
- Had he faced it, he would have known that he still heard Francisco's voice saying, "I am the only one who will offer it …. if you will accept it…… " He heard the words and the strangely solemn inflection of the quiet voice and an inexplicable answer of his own, something within him that wanted to cry yes, to accept, to tell this man that he accepted, that he needed it-though there was no name for what he needed, it was not gratitude, and he knew that it was not gratitude this man had…†
Chpt 1.6
- The feeling was solemn and shining; it was almost as if he felt that he wished to honor a woman by the act of possessing her.†
Chpt 1.6
- She had met Dr. Stadler on a few occasions, at banquets given by leading businessmen or great engineering societies, in honor of some solemn cause or another.†
Chpt 1.7
- She saw the suppressed grins on the solemn faces.†
Chpt 1.8
- This was not to be a solemn venture upon which their future depended, but simply their day of enjoyment.†
Chpt 1.8
- "Yes," he said solemnly, his voice low.†
Chpt 1.8
- Wyatt held her glance for a moment; his answer had a tone of solemn intensity strangely conveyed by a smiling voice.†
Chpt 1.8
- She turned to look at him and he saw the light of an inner smile, while her face remained solemnly grave; it was the most eloquently personal glance he had ever seen directed at himself, while she answered in a quiet, impersonal voice, "Mr.†
Chpt 1.9
- She nodded silently, solemnly, as if not trusting herself to find the right words of acceptance.
Chpt 1.9 *solemnly = in a serious and sincere manner
- " He had never heard so solemn a tone of pride in anyone's voice.†
Chpt 1.9
- He said slowly, his voice oddly strained and solemn, "I have never claimed to be immaculate."†
Chpt 1.10
- Her voice was quiet, steady and solemn: "Mr.†
Chpt 1.10
- I didn't know it would be so …. so solemn a place.†
Chpt 2.1
- His face suddenly earnest, Francisco answered gravely, almost solemnly, "Yes-what I think is going to be my best and greatest."†
Chpt 2.2
- There was no trace of amusement left in Francisco's eyes; Rearden had never faced so solemn a look of respect, "Yes, Mr. Rearden," he answered quietly.†
Chpt 2.2
- Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders-what would you tell him to do?"†
Chpt 2.3
- She was watching him attentively; the expression of his face pulled hers into the same look of quietly solemn tension.†
Chpt 2.4
- Dagny sat motionless and her face showed nothing but a solemn attention, the attention of listening with the knowledge that the flow of his words would determine the course of her life.†
Chpt 2.4
- The light of the lamp hit his face from below, and Rearden could not see his eyes, only his mouth drawn in lines of endurance and oddly solemn resignation.†
Chpt 2.4
- The question belonged to the present, but the solemn face came from those days on the hill by the Hudson when he would have understood all that the question meant to her.†
Chpt 2.5
- She watched him empty his glass in a single gesture; the brusque, brief movement of his hand made it look like the gesture of some solemn pledge.†
Chpt 2.5
- And standing naked in the great light, he was looking quietly, solemnly, stripped of fear, of pain, of hope, with nothing left to him but the desire to know.†
Chpt 2.6
- He sat still, looking up at her, I love you, he said to the girl on the flatcar, silently pronouncing the words that had been the meaning of that moment four years ago, feeling the solemn happiness that belonged with the words, even though this was how he had to say it to her for the first time.†
Chpt 2.6
- It was the emotion he had felt when, at the age of fourteen, he had looked at his first pay check-when, at the age of twenty-four, he had been made superintendent of the ore mines-when, as the owner of the mines, he had placed, in his own name, his first order for new equipment from the best concern of the time, Twentieth Century Motorsan emotion of solemn, joyous excitement, the sense of winning his place in a world he respected and earning the recognition of men he admired.†
Chpt 2.7
- It was eagerness and an odd, solemn stillness, the sudden certainty that she was facing the approach of something unknown and of the gravest importance.†
Chpt 2.8
- When he was close enough and she could distinguish his face, she saw the look of that luminous gaiety which transcends the solemn by proclaiming the great innocence of a man who has earned the right to be light-hearted.†
Chpt 2.8
- In the silence, the music of the radio symphony went on, and the rhythm of the chords reached her like the slow, solemn pounding of steps, while she struggled to see at once the whole progression of twelve years: the tortured boy who called for help on her breasts-the man who sat on the floor of a drawing room, playing marbles and laughing at the destruction of great industries-the man who cried, "My love, I can't!" while refusing to help her-the man who drank a toast, in the dim booth…†
Chpt 2.8
- She knew, by a faint, solemn stress in the tone of his voice, that this was his acceptance of her confession, his surrender, his forgiveness.†
Chpt 2.9
- The sound of the engine, beating through the metal shell around her, trembling in the wheel against her palms, like the pounding of a heart strained to a solemn effort, told her of the power carrying her above the peaks.†
Chpt 2.10
- The door of the cabin was locked, the sun did not reach into the glazed darkness beyond the windows, and pine branches hung outstretched above the roof like arms spread in protection, in compassion, in solemn blessing.†
Chpt 3.1
- There was no emotion in his voice, nothing but the spaced clarity of the sounds he pronounced with full knowledge of their meaning-but she knew that she was witnessing the most solemn moment it would ever be given her to witness, she was seeing a man's naked soul and the cost it had paid to utter these words, she was hearing an echo of the day when he had pronounced that oath for the first time and with full knowledge of the years ahead-she knew what manner of man had stood up to face…†
Chpt 3.1
- He opened the door of his house, moving his arm a shade more slowly than normal, giving an imperceptibly solemn emphasis to his gesture.†
Chpt 3.1
- She noticed that Galt smiled, but that his voice was oddly low, almost solemn, as if weighted with unconfessed relief,, when he said very quietly, "Hello."†
Chpt 3.2
- "I got a job for Jeff Alien," he said; his voice had the peculiarly solemn tone proper for saying: I have carried out your last will.†
Chpt 3.2
- Her eyes lowered, her face stern, holding her head bowed as in an act of reverence, she said slowly, as if fulfilling a solemn promise, "Will you forgive me?"†
Chpt 3.2
- "John," his voice sounded peculiarly solemn, "could we notify those outside that Dagny is alive …. in case there's somebody who …. who'd feel as I did?"†
Chpt 3.2
- She could not define their expressions, it was not happiness or any emotion pertaining to joy, their faces were taut and solemn, but it was a glowing solemnity-she thought-if this were possible, and the odd glow she felt within her, told her that her own face had the same look.†
Chpt 3.2
- At a signal from Wesley Mouch, his voice boomed suddenly over the prairie, an unctuous, fraudulently solemn voice magnified by the microphone inventor's ingenuity into the sound and power of a giant: "Ladies and gentlemen ….†
Chpt 3.3
- As she handed him. a tip, he said quietly, with too earnest, too solemn an emphasis for a mere acknowledgment of the corns, "Thank you, ma'am," She turned swiftly and hurried into the building, not to let him see the emotion which was suddenly more than she could bear.†
Chpt 3.3
- "I came to pay a debt," said Cherryl, her voice solemn with the effort to permit herself no sound of emotion.†
Chpt 3.4
- She sat looking at the map, her glance dispassionately solemn, as if no emotion save respect were permissible when observing the awesome power of logic.†
Chpt 3.5
- There it was, in the streets of New York City, the only city on earth still able to understand it-in the faces of people, in their whispers, the whispers crackling tensely like small tongues of fire, the faces lighted by a look that was both solemn and frantic, the shadings of expressions appearing to sway and weave, as if cast by a distant flame, some frightened, some angry, most of them uneasy, uncertain, expectant, but all of them acknowledging a fact much beyond an industrial…†
Chpt 3.5
- The boy's face was solemn and taut.†
Chpt 3.5
- "Thank you, Mr. Rearden," he said, his voice solemn and low, then walked away.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner