All 24 Uses of
competent
in
The Fountainhead
- A few words to say informally in a little after-dinner speech—you know, nothing blatant, no vulgar sales talk—only a few well-chosen thoughts on the responsibility of realtors to society, on the importance of selecting architects who are competent, respected and well established.†
Chpt 1.3
- His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.†
Chpt 1.7
- She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- It stands now, abandoned, as an eloquent witness to professional incompetence.†
Chpt 1.13
- You don't even have the wits to know that you're a flop, an incompetent, a beggar, a failure, a failure, a failure!†
Chpt 1.15
- Mallory is an incompetent and knows it and he decided to take it out on you as a symbol of the great and the able.†
Chpt 2.3
- You may see that a beautiful woman is inferior to a non-beautiful one, that the literate is inferior to the illiterate, that the rich is inferior to the poor, and the able to the incompetent.†
Chpt 2.8
- Most of them were young, brash, competent, shifty-eyed and shook hands limply.†
Chpt 2.9
- In this office one had to be competent.†
Chpt 2.10
- For incompetence?†
Chpt 2.12
- He was shrewd, competent and unscrupulous in the innocent manner of one unable to grasp the conception of a scruple.†
Chpt 3.1
- Roark threw his head back, to glance up at the rising steel frame; the light was full on his face, and she saw his look of concentration, not a smile, but an expression that gave her a joyous feeling of competence, of disciplined reason in action.†
Chpt 3.5
- It became a rigid set of new rules—the discipline of conscious incompetence, creative poverty made into a system, mediocrity boastfully confessed.†
Chpt 3.6
- He went on, giving slow, full value to each word: "We called you an incompetent fool, a tyro, a charlatan, a swindler, an egomaniac…"†
Chpt 4.3
- No. I hate incompetence.†
Chpt 4.3
- Everybody can't be as competent as you, my dear.†
Chpt 4.6
- They're forced to live like that—because they're not incompetent enough.†
Chpt 4.8
- But I'll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who's less competent.†
Chpt 4.8
- They were flat, brown oxfords, offensively competent, too well shined on the muddy pavement, contemptuous of rain and of beauty.†
Chpt 4.10
- It's simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity.†
Chpt 4.11
- But there is no substitute for competence.†
Chpt 4.11
- The Banner ran an expose on the housing racket: the graft, the incompetence, the structures erected at five times the cost a private builder would have needed, the settlements built and abandoned, the horrible performance accepted, admired, forgiven, protected by the sacred cow of altruism.†
Chpt 4.13
- Only now she did not write a column on houses, but kept busy wherever a competent hand was needed to fill a gap.†
Chpt 4.15
- It was not a famous architect publicly confessing incompetence; it was a man reciting a memorized lesson.†
Chpt 4.18
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability