All 18 Uses of
static
in
Atlas Shrugged
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- You must learn to see beyond the static definitions of old-fashioned thinking.†
Chpt 1.6
- Nothing is static in the universe.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Those men, long ago, tried to invent a motor that would draw static electricity from the atmosphere, convert it and create its own power as it went along.†
Chpt 1.9
- A pointless chuckle kept breaking his voice when he spoke, the sound of a static, unfocused malevolence, "It went bust, the great factory.†
Chpt 1.10
- He formulated a new premise of his own and he solved the secret of converting static energy into kinetic power.†
Chpt 2.1
- It seemed to her that some destroyer was moving soundlessly through the country and the lights were dying at his touch-someone, she thought bitterly, who had reversed the principle of the Twentieth Century motor and was now turning kinetic energy into static.†
Chpt 2.2
- After a while, he noticed the women around him; they all seemed to resemble Lillian, with the same look of static grooming, with thin eyebrows plucked to a static lift and eyes frozen in static amusement.†
Chpt 2.2
- After a while, he noticed the women around him; they all seemed to resemble Lillian, with the same look of static grooming, with thin eyebrows plucked to a static lift and eyes frozen in static amusement.†
Chpt 2.2
- After a while, he noticed the women around him; they all seemed to resemble Lillian, with the same look of static grooming, with thin eyebrows plucked to a static lift and eyes frozen in static amusement.†
Chpt 2.2
- No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity-to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor.†
Chpt 2.2
- I believed that love is some static gift which, once granted, need no longer be deserved-just as they believe that wealth is a static possession which can be seized and held without further effort.†
Chpt 2.6
- I believed that love is some static gift which, once granted, need no longer be deserved-just as they believe that wealth is a static possession which can be seized and held without further effort.†
Chpt 2.6
- A spark of light flared up on earth once in a while, and it seemed brighter than all the static blue above.†
Chpt 2.10
- And that's the last I remember, Miss Taggart-I mean, the last I remember of my own existence, because after that we talked about static electricity and the conversion of energy and the motor.†
Chpt 3.1
- While the strength of her body was gone, while her mind had lost the faculty of consciousness, a single emotion drew on her remnants of energy, of understanding, of judgment, of control, leaving her nothing to resist it with or to direct it, making her unable to desire, only to feel, reducing her to a mere sensation-a static sensation without start or goal.†
Chpt 3.1
- As the cab started, she noticed that the dial of the radio on the driver's panel was lighted and silent, crackling with the brief, tense coughs of static: it was tuned to Bertram Scudder's program.†
Chpt 3.3
- "Ladies and gentlemen,'1 the voice of Bertram Scudder's announcer crackled suddenly out of the static, "due to technical difficulties over which we have no control, this station will remain off the air, pending the necessary readjustments."†
Chpt 3.3
- The radio music had gone off abruptly, choking on an odd little gasp of static, cut in the middle of a ringing phrase.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, static can also refer to electrical interference or to an electrical charge that is stationary in an object. More rarely, it can also refer to "complaints or interference".