All 15 Uses of
eloquent
in
The Fountainhead
- It stands in white serenity as an eloquent witness to the triumph of Classical purity and common sense.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- It stands now, abandoned, as an eloquent witness to professional incompetence.†
Chpt 1.13
- The board could reach no decision; there had been objectors and there had been violent supporters; there had been conferences; Weidler told him eloquently little, but he could guess much; there had been days of silence, of silence in the office, of silence in the whole city, of silence within him.†
Chpt 1.15
- She thought that every silent instant passing was a betrayal; this wordless encounter was too eloquent, this recognition that no greeting was necessary.†
Chpt 2.2
- Nor as eloquent.†
Chpt 2.6
- No other setting could bring out so eloquently the essential insolence of this building.†
Chpt 2.7
- This doesn't really matter, except that it makes the contrast more eloquent and—well—more personal, later on.†
Chpt 2.7
- …it was, offered to her, the rest of him, to be seen and touched, open to all; the girders and the conduits and the sweeping reaches of space were his and could not have been anyone else's in the world; his, as his face, as his soul; here was the shape he had made and the thing within him which had caused him to make it, the end and the cause together, the motive power eloquent in every line of steel, a man's self, hers for this moment, hers by grace of her seeing it and understanding.†
Chpt 2.8
- The rock crystal forms mounted in such eloquent steps that the building did not seem stationary, but moving upward in a continuous flow—until one realized that it was only the movement of one's glance and that one's glance was forced to move in that particular rhythm.†
Chpt 2.10
- You'd scream to that creature why it should not touch you, you'd have the most eloquent words, the unanswerable words, you'd become the vessel of the absolute truth.†
Chpt 2.11
- The most passionate objector was a young architect who made an eloquent speech, his voice trembling with the embarrassment of speaking in public for the first time; he said that he admired Ellsworth Toohey and had always agreed with Toohey's social ideals, but if a group of people felt that some person was acquiring power over them, that was the time to fight such a person.†
Chpt 2.15
- The discriminating will see the social significance eloquent in the forms of this new architecture.†
Chpt 3.6
- Originally, the title of this beautiful play was an authentic line drawn from the language of the people, with the brave, simple eloquence of folk expression.†
Chpt 3.8
- The smile would have said that this sudden insult was a declaration of surrender, more eloquent than the speeches of confidence; the suppression said that Roark would not help him over this particular moment.†
Chpt 4.3
- He lifted the sketch and held it up between two fingers, letting all the light hit it straight on; the white sheet glowed as a reflector for a moment, pushing the black pencil lines eloquently forward.†
Chpt 4.3
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language