All 28 Uses of
acquire
in
The Fountainhead
- Readers acquired erudition without study, authority without cost, judgment without effort.†
Chpt 1.6
- The Heller house acquired fame throughout the countryside surrounding it.†
Chpt 1.11
- It's something one acquires.†
Chpt 1.13
- I have no organ to acquire it with.†
Chpt 1.13
- He had to beat that man; nothing else mattered; there was no Peter Keating, there was only a suction chamber, like the kind of tropical plant he'd heard about, a plant that drew an insect into its vacuum and sucked it dry and thus acquired its own substance.†
Chpt 1.14
- She acquired a brisk little tone of condescension for the reporters.†
Chpt 1.15
- She acquired a mink coat.†
Chpt 1.15
- He had acquired the knowledge of one thing: he hated Roark.†
Chpt 1.15
- One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance.
Chpt 2.4 *acquire = coming into the possession of
- At this period he began to acquire friends.†
Chpt 2.9
- He acquired a sizable following among the young heirs, the second and third generation millionaires.†
Chpt 2.9
- Toohey acquired a reputation and an unofficial monopoly.†
Chpt 2.9
- Men like you and me would not survive beyond their first fifteen years if they did not acquire the patience of a Chinese executioner.†
Chpt 2.11
- # "It is not our function—paraphrasing a philosopher whom we do not like—to be a fly swatter, but when a fly acquires delusions of grandeur, the best of us must stoop to do a little job of extermination.†
Chpt 2.12
- It is difficult enough to acquire fame.†
Chpt 2.12
- It is impossible to change its nature once you've acquired it.†
Chpt 2.12
- You won't have lost your identity—you will merely have acquired a broader one, an identity that will be part of everybody else and of the whole universe.†
Chpt 2.13
- The most passionate objector was a young architect who made an eloquent speech, his voice trembling with the embarrassment of speaking in public for the first time; he said that he admired Ellsworth Toohey and had always agreed with Toohey's social ideals, but if a group of people felt that some person was acquiring power over them, that was the time to fight such a person.†
Chpt 2.15
- She wore a white silk dress with long sleeves and a cowl neck, a nun's garment that acquired the startling effect of an evening gown only by being so flagrantly unsuited to that purpose.†
Chpt 3.3
- He had acquired a pleasant habit of dropping in and out of Scarret's office at all hours.†
Chpt 3.7
- She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.†
Chpt 3.9
- Don't go acquiring horror complexes about anyone as big as Ellsworth Toohey.†
Chpt 3.9
- Keating had acquired a sharp, intractable manner in the last few years.†
Chpt 4.1
- We must acquire a philosophical perspective.†
Chpt 4.6
- She acquired an impatient anger against all those who disagreed with her political views.†
Chpt 4.6
- "You're acquiring the bad habits of all commuters, Gail," she said, "imposing your country hours on guests from the city who are not used to them."†
Chpt 4.9
- She acquired a permanent job by getting herself appointed Director of Social Recreation for Cortlandt.†
Chpt 4.12
- The walls he had designed, the chairs he used, a package of his cigarettes on a table, the routine necessities of life that could acquire splendor when life became what it was now.†
Chpt 4.17
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)