All 22 Uses of
sullen
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I've had a hard day," said Philip sullenly.†
Chpt 1.2
- Boyle did not answer; his face had become sullen.†
Chpt 1.3
- "There ought to be a law against irresponsible gossip," said Taggart sullenly.†
Chpt 1.3
- Why did you?" said Taggart sullenly.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Balph Eubank had joined the group around Dr. Pritchett, and was saying sullenly, "…. no, you cannot expect people to understand the higher reaches of philosophy.†
Chpt 1.6
- Ben Nealy was a bulky man with a soft, sullen face.†
Chpt 1.7
- He paced the room sullenly, knowing that her eyes followed him, enjoying the knowledge, enjoying the sense of tremendous significance which his movements, his cuff links, his shoelaces, his lampshades and ashtrays acquired in that gentle, unquestioning glance.†
Chpt 1.9
- He caught a glimpse of his own figure: the tall body distorted by a sloppy, sagging posture, as if in deliberate negation of human grace, the thinning hair, the soft, sullen mouth.†
Chpt 1.9
- The man stared at the money with sullen indifference, not moving, not lifting a hand for it, still clutching the two buckets.†
Chpt 1.9
- He went on sullenly, as if she were guilty of a deliberate offense against him.†
Chpt 1.10
- Jim said little; he sat looking sullenly out the car window; she wondered whether she had disappointed him in some manner.†
Chpt 2.2
- "I don't like the professor's remarks," said Lawson loudly and sullenly.†
Chpt 2.6
- Dave Mitchum's eyes grew sullen: he knew that this was the one thought on all their minds; he wished Brent had not named it.†
Chpt 2.7
- You've never considered the social angle of anything," he said, in a sullen, retreating voice.†
Chpt 3.3
- "I just wanted to please you," he added sullenly, "but I guess you can't understand it at all.†
Chpt 3.4
- She could not understand Jim's behavior, or his sullen anger, which looked like weakness, or his evasive, incomprehensible answers to her questions, which sounded like cowardice; such traits were not possible in the James Taggart whom she had married.†
Chpt 3.4
- "An act of anti-social destruction," he was snarling to a sullen companion, "at a time when there's such a desperate shortage of copper!†
Chpt 3.5
- There's trouble in California," said Wesley Mouch sullenly.†
Chpt 3.5
- Rearden wondered about the reason for the presence of James Taggart; Taggart sat in gloomy silence, sullenly sipping a drink, never glancing in his direction.†
Chpt 3.6
- Well, somebody's got to support the railroads," said Taggart sullenly, not looking at him.†
Chpt 3.6
- I don't see why you should choose to take such a defeatist view of the situation," said Mouch sullenly.†
Chpt 3.6
- Her brother Jim, she noted, had been placed closer to the platform; she could see his sullen face among the nervous figures of Tinky Holloway, Fred Kinnan, Dr. Simon Pritchett.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)