All 6 Uses of
progressive
in
The Fountainhead
- He had no distaste for modern architecture and built cheerfully, when a rare client asked for it, bare boxes with flat roofs, which he called progressive; he built Roman mansions which he called fastidious; he built Gothic churches which he called spiritual.†
Chpt 1.9
- She adored Austen Heller; he was, she stated, an oracle to all those pretending just the tiniest bit to the title of progressive intellectual, she thought—"don't you?†
Chpt 1.13
- Ellsworth M. Toohey had accepted the legacy and had turned it over, intact, to the "Workshop of Social Study," a progressive institute of learning where he held the post of lecturer on "Art as a Social Symptom."†
Chpt 2.3
- It became amusing, at first, to accept "Monk" Toohey; then it became distinctive and progressive.†
Chpt 2.9
- The civic leaders wished to be conspicuously progressive.†
Chpt 4.1 *
- It's about time this paper had a modem, liberal, progressive policy!†
Chpt 4.16
Definition:
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(progressive as in: progressive decline) gradually advancing or becoming more severe