All 6 Uses of
ordeal
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The National Council of Metal Industries won't put itself again through the ordeal of having me for guest of honor.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Was it an ordeal for you?†
Chpt 1.9
- She knew that he hated the ordeal of signing the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" on the registers of squalid roadside hotels.†
Chpt 1.9
- I was still faking reality, and it had the inexorable result: instead of protection, it brought you a more terrible kind of ordeal, instead of saving your name, it forced you to offer yourself for a public stoning and to throw the stones by your own hand.†
Chpt 3.3
- This world ordeal is the result of man's attempt to live by reason!†
Chpt 3.5
- The tortured faces strung out above the speakers' table were not succeeding in their efforts to hide that they looked like men enduring an ordeal; the calm of Galt's face seemed radiant among them; she wondered who was prisoner here and who was master.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(ordeal) a very difficult or painful experience