All 12 Uses of
ingenuity
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- They were the nights spent at scorching ovens in the research laboratory of the mills—the nights spent in the workshop of his home, over sheets of paper which he filled with formulas, then tore up in angry failure—the days when the young scientists of the small staff he had chosen to assist him waited for instructions like soldiers ready for a hopeless battle, having exhausted their ingenuity, still willing, but silent, with the unspoken sentence hanging in the air: "Mr.†
Chpt 1.2
- -but it's just that a man of culture is bored with the alleged wonders of purely material ingenuity," she was saying.†
Chpt 1.2
- Her feeling for the railroad was the same: worship of the skill that had gone to make it, of the ingenuity of someone's clean, reasoning mind, worship with a secret smile that said she would know how to make it better some day.†
Chpt 1.3
- An incomparable mind could not turn its ingenuity to the invention of melting ballrooms.†
Chpt 1.5
- She found pleasure in watching the ingenuity of an open belt that moved slowly, carrying slices of bread past glowing electric coils.†
Chpt 1.7
- He had had no advice to give them, no solution to offer; his ingenuity, which had made him famous as the man who would always find a way to keep production going, had not been able to discover a way to save them.†
Chpt 2.1
- But they had all known that there was no way; ingenuity was a virtue of the mind-and in the issue confronting them, the mind had been discarded as irrelevant long ago.†
Chpt 2.1
- The homes were not lined along a street, they were spread at irregular intervals over the rises and hollows of the ground, they were small and simple, built of local materials, mostly of granite and pine, with a prodigal ingenuity of thought and a tight economy of physical effort.†
Chpt 3.1
- He was the man of extravagant energy-and reckless generosity-who knew that stagnation is not man's fate, that impotence is not his nature, that the ingenuity of his mind is his noblest and most joyous power-and in service to that love of existence he was alone to feel, he went on working, working at any price, working for his despoilers, for his jailers, for his torturers, paying with his life for the privilege of saving theirs.†
Chpt 3.1
- 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
- …when, at its plunge into the tunnels, she had felt a sudden, solemn tension, as if this place were showing her in naked simplicity the essence of her railroad and of her life, the union of consciousness and matter, the frozen form of a mind's ingenuity giving physical existence to its purpose; she had felt a sense of sudden hope, as if this place held the meaning of all of her values, and a sense of secret excitement, as if a nameless promise were awaiting her under the ground-it was…†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways