All 7 Uses of
endeavor
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The whole sphere of human endeavors, with one exception, left him blankly indifferent; he had no touch of that which people called culture.†
Chpt 1.4
- …had to find another company to deal with, the supply of copper was becoming increasingly uncertain…… Philip did not smile, when he looked up in the midst of a speech he was making to some friend of their mother's, about some organization he had joined, but there was something that suggested a smile of superiority in the loose muscles of his face when he said, "No, you wouldn't care for this, it's not business, Henry, not business at all, it's a strictly non-commercial endeavor."†
Chpt 1.6
- I am endeavoring to suggest that we keep the discussion on a friendly plane.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit.†
Chpt 1.7
- At seventy, he was an obese old man with retouched hair and a manner of scornful cynicism retouched by quotations from the yogis about the futility of all human endeavor.†
Chpt 2.7
- Bill Brent could have— beaten him in any contest of technology, but here was an endeavor at which he could beat Bill Brent without effort.†
Chpt 2.7
- But the man who produces an idea in any field of rational endeavor-the man who discovers new knowledge-is the permanent benefactor of humanity.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
-
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted