All 3 Uses of
transient
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I'm just transient labor.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- She felt it more clearly than ever this morning: the certainty that the ugliness of the men in the city and the ugliness of her suffering were transient accidents-while the smiling sense of hope within her at the sight of a sun-flooded forest, the sense of an unlimited promise, was the permanent and the real.†
Chpt 2.8
- With its costly furniture and the absence of all personal belongings, the room had that air of dreary luxury which pertains to transient occupancy, as dismal as the air of a flophouse.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(transient) lasting a short time
or:
one who stays for only a short time