All 13 Uses of
vulgar
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It's vulgar.†
Chpt 1.1
- "Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Just as logic is a primitive vulgarity in philosophy.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Just as melody is a primitive vulgarity in music," said Mort Liddy.†
Chpt 1.6
- As witness our great industries-the only accomplishment of our alleged civilization-built by vulgar materialists with the aims, the interests and the moral sense of hogs.†
Chpt 1.7
- You can't be so vulgar and …. and undignified!†
Chpt 1.7
- He sat in a pose he had never permitted himself before, a pose he had resented as the most vulgar symbol of the businessman-he sat leaning back in his chair, with his feet on his desk-and it seemed to her that the posture had an air of peculiar nobility, that it was not the pose of a stuffy executive, but of a young crusader.†
Chpt 2.3
- You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.'†
Chpt 2.3
- I've spent a lot of money on the most ostentatiously vulgar parties I could think of, and a miserable amount of time on being seen with the appropriate sort of women.†
Chpt 2.4
- We must not let vulgar difficulties obstruct our feeling that it's a noble plan motivated solely by the public welfare.†
Chpt 2.6
- "I don't know why I keep dragging myself to those parties," he snapped suddenly, tearing off his dress tie in the middle of their living room, "I've never sat through such a vulgar, boring waste of time!"†
Chpt 3.4
- But I-I was willing to love you for your flaws, for your faults and weaknesses, for your ignorance, your crudeness, your vulgarity-and that's safe, you'd have nothing to fear, nothing to hide, you could be yourself, your real, stinking, sinful, ugly self-everybody's self is a gutter-but you could hold my love, with nothing demanded of you!†
Chpt 3.4
- '-they answer with righteous scorn that a 'how' is the concept of vulgar realists; the concept of superior spirits is 'Somehow.'†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste