All 21 Uses of
crusade
in
The Fountainhead
- Your professor of structural engineering acted quite the crusader on your behalf.†
Chpt 1.1
- The other pages ran a crusade against utility companies; a daily horoscope; extracts from church sermons; recipes for young brides; pictures of girls with beautiful legs; advice on how to hold a husband; a baby contest; a poem proclaiming that to wash dishes was nobler than to write a symphony; an article proving that a woman who had borne a child was automatically a saint.†
Chpt 1.5
- It said: "Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth."†
Chpt 1.6
- I have no patience with visionaries who see a holy crusade in architecture for architecture's sake.†
Chpt 1.8
- You are crusaders in the cause of the underprivileged and the unsheltered.†
Chpt 2.5
- He contended that the family was a bourgeois institution; but he made no issue of it and did not crusade for free love.†
Chpt 2.9
- Nobody would have felt an urge to crusade about a building; but religion had been attacked; the press agent had prepared the ground too well, the spring of public attention was wound, a great many people could make use of it.†
Chpt 2.12
- Gail Wynand was away, sailing his yacht through the Indian Ocean, and Alvah Scarret was stuck for a crusade.†
Chpt 2.12
- The Banner led great, brave crusades—on issues that had no opposition.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- It led to a crusade against sweatshops, headed by the best women of the city.†
Chpt 3.1
- He staged a crusade against a shady streetcar monopoly and caused it to lose its franchise; the franchise was granted to a shadier group, controlled by Gail Wynand.†
Chpt 3.1
- He stopped every attempt to draw Mrs. Gail Wynand into public life—to head committees, sponsor charity drives, endorse crusades.†
Chpt 3.8
- They were an army and it was a crusade.†
Chpt 4.1 *
- There is no glory in war, and no beauty in crusades of men.†
Chpt 4.1
- That stood on guard over the valley and over the crusaders within it.†
Chpt 4.1
- Think of my great crusades about street-car companies, red-light districts and home-grown vegetables.†
Chpt 4.9
- We'll see," said Wynand contemptuously—and continued his private crusade.†
Chpt 4.9
- But Wynand spoke of his crusade, impersonally, almost as if it did not concern Roark at all.†
Chpt 4.13
- Dominique, which will be worse for him—to lose you or to lose his crusade?†
Chpt 4.13
- He was leading his greatest crusade—with the help of finks, drifters, drunkards, and humble drudges too passive to quit.†
Chpt 4.15
- Alvah Scarret had found a crusade to which he devoted himself with the truest fervor he had ever experienced.†
Chpt 4.17
Definitions:
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(Crusades as in: First Crusade to Jerusalem) the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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(crusade as in: a crusade against pollution) a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important