All 10 Uses of
dictate
in
The Fountainhead
- It was not as if the draftsman had sat over them, pondering laboriously, piecing together doors, windows and columns, as his whim dictated and as the books prescribed.†
Chpt 1.1
- No laws had dictated a single detail.†
Chpt 1.1
- Roark dictated a letter asking Mallory to telephone his office.†
Chpt 2.11
- You can ignore that, but it becomes serious when one of our oldest customers, a mild little old lady from Connecticut and a Republican for three generations, calls us to say that perhaps maybe she should cancel her charge account, because somebody told her that Wynand is a dictator.†
Chpt 4.6
- I'm the worst kind of dictator aboard my yacht.†
Chpt 4.11
- Others dictated his convictions, which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that others believed he held them.†
Chpt 4.11
- While we recognize an owner's right to dictate the policy of his paper on political, sociological or economic issues, we believe that a situation has gone past the limits of decency when an employer expects self-respecting men to espouse the cause of a common criminal.†
Chpt 4.15
- We wish Mr. Wynand to realize that the day of dictatorial one-man rule is past.†
Chpt 4.15 *
- I created a great voice and let them dictate the words.†
Chpt 4.16
- But it does not include the sphere of the gangster, the altruist and the dictator.†
Chpt 4.18
Definition:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders