Both Uses of
imperative
in
The Fountainhead
- The one absolute, the one imperative in that living creature.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- They seemed caught in a single streak of motion, an imperative direction like the flight of a bullet that could not be stopped on its course.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
-
(imperative) essential and urgent
or more rarely: (in grammar) a sentence that expresses a command or request