All 5 Uses of
decisive
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He leaned forward across the desk, reluctant to end the interview and to end it so decisively.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- We can never tell when one such issue may he decided and what may be the decisive factor in a delicate balance.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The rooms were bare and crudely simple, the house seemed built with the skill, the decisiveness and the impatience typical of Francisco; it looked like a frontiersman's shanty thrown together to serve as a mere springboard for a long flight into the future-a future where so great a field of activity lay waiting that no time could be wasted on the comfort of its start.†
Chpt 3.2
- It was on the same afternoon, at the mills, that he saw the Wet Nurse hurrying toward him-a gangling, coltish figure with a peculiar mixture of brusqueness, awkwardness and decisiveness.†
Chpt 3.5
- He spoke little, but when he did, it was to snap decisively, with a contemptuous grin, "Pipe down, Jimmy!" or, "Nuts, Wes, you're talking through your hat!"†
Chpt 3.5
Definitions:
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(decisive as in: a decisive defeat) determining an outcome; or ending question
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(decisive as in: a decisive decision maker) making quick decisions and sticking by them; or describing an action as firm or without hesitation