All 8 Uses of
paralysis
in
The Fountainhead
- Then it dropped to the table and Heyer's left hand with the paralyzed fingers jabbed at it blindly, purposelessly, like a hook.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- They concluded that there was nothing abnormal in the manner of the man who was speaking, except the fact that his right hand would not leave the edge of the table, and when he had to move the drawings, he did it with his left hand, like a man with one arm paralyzed.†
Chpt 1.15
- She heard a sound that came from somewhere within her, and it was the dry, short, sickening sound of a sob, but she was not crying, her eyes were held paralyzed, dry and open.†
Chpt 2.2
- Skinny Dix got infantile paralysis—and would lie in bed, watching the street corner beyond the window, waiting for Ellsworth.†
Chpt 2.9
- He wanted to think that he was paralyzed.†
Chpt 2.14
- When a coal-mining community was paralyzed by a strike, the Banner opened soup-kitchens and printed tragic stories on the perils confronting the miners' pretty daughters under the pressure of poverty.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had a quiet pain as sole conception of what he wanted to express, a humble, unbearable tenderness for the sight of the earth around him—and something tight, paralyzed, as sole means to express it.†
Chpt 4.7
- The wish was like a secret taunt against himself, because he knew that the splitting pressure in his skull meant the opposite, an urge to action, so strong that he felt paralyzed.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
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(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision