All 6 Uses of
stupor
in
The Fountainhead
- Through a cold stupor, Keating thought of the clients laughing in his face; he heard the thin, omnipotent voice of Ellsworth Toohey calling his attention to the opportunities open to him in the field of plumbing.†
Chpt 1.5
- It was the calm of blank stupor.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- E.M.T. # He let the clipping flutter down to his desk, and he stood over it, running a strand of hair between his fingers, in a kind of happy stupor.†
Chpt 2.3
- He knew that he was violently alive, that he was forcing the stupor into his muscles and into his mind, because he wished to escape the responsibility of consciousness.†
Chpt 2.14
- We have come to hold, in a kind of mawkish stupor, that greatness is to be gauged by self-sacrifice.†
Chpt 4.13
- He had not grasped that the events were real; he shuffled about in a stupor; he felt a fresh jolt of bewilderment each morning when he drove up to the building and saw the pickets.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
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(stupor) a state in which there is little ability to think -- as from being very sleepy, drunk, or stunned