All 50 Uses of
incredulous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She watched him incredulously for a while, before she raised her voice to ask, "Tell me please, what are you whistling?"†
Chpt 1.1
- "The Music Publishing Company?" he repeated incredulously.†
Chpt 1.1
- She looked at him incredulously.†
Chpt 1.4
- Then he smiled, and she saw, incredulously, that the smile held sadness and pity.†
Chpt 1.4
- Dagny looked at her incredulously and answered, "What do you think I'm having?†
Chpt 1.5
- He looked at her incredulously, not quite believing what she was or what he felt.†
Chpt 1.5
- Rearden turned and looked at the speaker incredulously.†
Chpt 1.6
- In Rearden's pause of incredulous silence, he pointed at the crowd in the drawing room.†
Chpt 1.6
- She glanced at him incredulously.†
Chpt 1.7
- The man leaned back, looked at Rearden incredulously and asked, "What are you after?"†
Chpt 1.7
- She stared incredulously, in turn, silenced by shock.†
Chpt 1.7
- She knew that every gesture of her desire for him struck him like a blow, that there was some shudder of incredulous anger within him-yet that no gesture would satisfy his greed for every evidence of her desire.†
Chpt 1.8
- At first, he had seen her eyes growing dark with incredulous shock.†
Chpt 1.9
- She looked at him incredulously.†
Chpt 1.9
- He spread his arms wide, looking incredulous and slightly indignant.†
Chpt 1.10
- She had ordered him out of her office, and had sat in incredulous horror before the fact that the most vicious statement she had ever heard had been uttered in a tone of moral righteousness.†
Chpt 2.1
- She opened it and stared in incredulous bewilderment at a pendant made of a single pear-shaped ruby that spurted a violent fire on the white satin of the jeweler's box.†
Chpt 2.1
- She still smiled with incredulous gratitude when newspaper people wanted to take her picture, but she wished they would not do it so often.†
Chpt 2.2
- Rearden saw incredulously that Francisco's eyes had a hard, bright look, the look, not of a party hound, but of a man of action.†
Chpt 2.2
- In the next instant, he flung his body upward to a kneeling posture, looking at Rearden with a smile of incredulous pleasure.†
Chpt 2.4
- In a fury of incredulous disappointment, she looked frantically for any single feminine figure he could, have left behind.†
Chpt 2.5
- He was looking at her incredulously, in cold, astonished curiosity.†
Chpt 2.5
- Opening his report, she read-with a shock of incredulous anger-that he had stopped work in the mountain section of Winston, Colorado.†
Chpt 2.6
- It was a sudden, desperate cry of incredulous anger: "Mr.†
Chpt 2.6
- Kip Chalmers glanced out with incredulous anger at the few shanties on a desolate mountainside and at the ancient hovel of a station.†
Chpt 2.7
- It was hard to decipher emotions on Brent's cowboy face, but Mitchum saw something that resembled a look of incredulous horror; only it was horror at some sight of his own, not at the words, and it had no quality of fear, not the kind of fear Mitchum had hoped for.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Hello, Miss Taggart," he answered, with an astonished smile that held a touch of incredulous pleasure-and of wistfulness.†
Chpt 2.10
- She had always wondered, in incredulous contempt, about the sects that preached the annihilation of the universe as the ideal to be attained.†
Chpt 2.10
- She was staring at him incredulously.†
Chpt 3.1
- "Two hundred dollars?" she repeated incredulously; the price seemed much too low.†
Chpt 3.1
- She was listening to him with an eager, incredulous smile.†
Chpt 3.1
- "What?" asked Danneskjold softly, incredulously.†
Chpt 3.2
- Francisco grinned with shocked, incredulous amusement.†
Chpt 3.2
- "Yes," she said incredulously, "I do," incredulously because she was hearing her own symbol of moral pride, chosen by a man she had least expected to choose it.†
Chpt 3.2
- "Yes," she said incredulously, "I do," incredulously because she was hearing her own symbol of moral pride, chosen by a man she had least expected to choose it.†
Chpt 3.2
- It was like a spurt of blood from a sudden crack in a wound that had almost closed: Stadler's face was open, open in pain, in horror, in sincerity, as if, for that moment, both he and Ferris were human beings, while he moaned with incredulous despair: "In a civilized century, Ferris, in a civilized century!†
Chpt 3.3
- You'll do nothing of the kind!" she gasped, too incredulous to be angry.†
Chpt 3.3
- Rearden?" she asked incredulously, unable to believe either.†
Chpt 3.3
- He ran his hand over her forehead, with a gesture of understanding, of compassion, of an almost incredulous wonder.†
Chpt 3.3
- She looked at him, her eyes incredulously wide.†
Chpt 3.4
- "What are you trying to do, Jim?" she asked, her voice incredulous and distant.†
Chpt 3.4
- Dagny's shock of emotion, incredulous, warm and painful, was the wordless equivalent of the sentence: What a distance to travel in less than a year ….†
Chpt 3.4
- She saw a look of astonishment, of incredulous recognition on Cherryl's face, as if the girl were struggling to recapture some sensation across a span of years.†
Chpt 3.4
- Incredulously, he realized what it was that had been expected of him: he, the victim, chained, bound, gagged and left with no recourse save to bribery, had been expected to believe that the farce he had purchased was a process of law, that the edicts enslaving him had moral validity, that he was guilty of corrupting the integrity of the guardians of justice, and that the blame was his, not theirs.†
Chpt 3.5
- They fought for movement, for movement with no thought of destination, for movement as such, like a paralytic under a stroke, struggling in wild, stiff, incredulous jerks against the realization that movement was suddenly impossible.†
Chpt 3.5
- He turned incredulously to look at his mother.†
Chpt 3.6
- He did not finish; he looked at the three faces before him, and a sudden smile ended his sentence, a smile of weariness, of pity, of incredulous revulsion.†
Chpt 3.6
- "You, Mr. Rearden?" said Holloway incredulously.†
Chpt 3.6
- The boy jerked back, raising his head with a shock of incredulous, indignant astonishment.†
Chpt 3.6
- Francisco smiled, a smile of greeting to a childhood friend on a summer morning, as if nothing else had ever been possible between themand Rearden found himself smiling in answer, some part of him feeling an incredulous wonder, yet knowing that it was irresistibly right.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(incredulous) unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected