Both Uses of
mandatory
in
The Fountainhead
- Guy Francon, its designer, has known how to subordinate himself to the mandatory canons which generations of craftsmen behind him have proved inviolate, and at the same time how to display his own creative originality, not in spite of, but precisely because of the Classical dogma he has accepted with the humility of a true artist.†
Chpt 1.4
- Mandatory reading for anyone aspiring to the title of intellectual.†
Chpt 1.6 *
Definition:
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(mandatory as in: it is mandatory) required by rule or law