All 4 Uses of
ultimatum
in
The Fountainhead
- Heller, the fighter against compulsion, was baffled by Roark, a man so impervious to compulsion that he became a kind of compulsion himself, an ultimatum against things Heller could not define.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.†
Chpt 2.2
- It's an ultimatum.†
Chpt 3.9
- Not in the total, undivided way, not with the kind of desire that becomes an ultimatum, 'yes' or 'no,' and one can't accept the 'no' without ceasing to exist.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(ultimatum) a final demand that carries a threat if it is rejected