All 13 Uses of
apprehension
in
Atlas Shrugged
- No, he thought, not dread, there's nothing to fear: just an immense, diffused apprehension, with no source or object.†
Chpt 1.1
- Whenever she returned, he felt as if the world became clear, simple, easy to face-and he forgot his moments of shapeless apprehension.†
Chpt 1.1
- But she felt a vague apprehension which she could not define, the suggestion that there was something of grave consequence in whatever had made him say it, something dangerous to him.†
Chpt 1.4
- Then, as she watched him, the apprehension vanished.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- There were a few times, that winter, when she felt an undefined apprehension: the professor's words kept returning to her mind, as a warning which she could not explain.†
Chpt 1.5
- But the loudest screaming of the most hysterical editorial roused no emotion in himwhile a variation of a decimal point in a laboratory report on a test of Rearden Metal made him leap to his feet in eagerness or apprehension.†
Chpt 1.6
- He had attended to the matter without breaking his chain of appointments, without raising his voice, without sign of strain, uncertainty or apprehension; he had acted with the swift precision of a military commander under sudden fire-and Gwen Ives, his secretary, had acted as his calmest lieutenant.†
Chpt 1.7
- The note of apprehension was obvious in her voice now.†
Chpt 2.3
- She found herself staring at the stubs of her cigarettes in the ashtray stand beside her, and wondered why it gave her a sharper feeling of apprehension.†
Chpt 2.3
- If anyone has been laboring under such a misapprehension, we are anxious to prove that it is not true.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- She had never experienced it before, this sense of apprehension at the sight of a prairie, this feeling that the rail was only a fragile thread stretched across an enormous emptiness, like a worn nerve ready to break.†
Chpt 2.10
- Her faint apprehension grew into a question mark, and the question mark turned into a drill, cutting deeper and deeper into her mind through the evenings that followed-when Galt left the house and she remained alone.†
Chpt 3.2
- They could not decipher the expression on his face, except that it showed no sign of apprehension.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(apprehension as in: apprehension of the situation) to understand
or:
in psychology and philosophy: immediate awareness prior to analysis and judgment
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(apprehension as in: apprehension about finals) worry about what is to come