All 5 Uses of
obelisk
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There were patches of blue in the sky above the spacious streets of Washington, the faint blue of mid-April, and a few beams breaking through the clouds, A monument stood shining in the distance, hit by a ray of sun: it was a tall, white obelisk, erected to the memory of the man Dr. Ferris was quoting, the man in whose honor this city had been named.†
Chpt 2.6
- They've never left us a chance…… " His eyes were moving restlessly; he glanced at the window, but looked hastily away: he did not want to see the white obelisk in the distance.†
Chpt 2.6
- James Taggart rose, walked to the window and pulled the blind down over the white obelisk.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- Now she knew that they were tombstones, slender obelisks soaring in memory of the men who had been destroyed for having created them, they were the frozen shape of the silent cry that the reward of achievement was martyrdom.†
Chpt 3.4
- The shaft of red smoke that shot to the sky on the night of January 22 and stood abnormally still for a while, like a solemn memorial obelisk, then wavered and swept back and forth across the sky, like a searchlight sending some undecipherable message, then went out as abruptly as it had come, marked the end of Rearden Steel-but the inhabitants of the area did not know it.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(obelisk) a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top