All 11 Uses of
harmonious
in
The Fountainhead
- Its lines were hard and simple, revealing, emphasizing the harmony of the steel skeleton within, as a body reveals the perfection of its bones.†
Chpt 1.3
- He predicted a better world to come, where all men would be brothers and their buildings would become harmonious and all alike, in the great tradition of Greece, "the Mother of Democracy."†
Chpt 1.6
- The house was broken into many levels, following the ledges of the rock, rising as it rose, in gradual masses, in planes flowing together up into one consummate harmony.†
Chpt 1.10
- Alvah Scarret broke the harmony.†
Chpt 1.12
- It was a study in circles; there were no angles and no straight lines; it looked like shapes caught in a flow, held still at the moment of being poured, at the precise moment when they formed a harmony that seemed too perfect to be intentional.†
Chpt 1.13
- There was the same severe, mathematical order holding together a free, fantastic growth; straight lines and clean angles, space slashed with a knife, yet in a harmony of formation as delicate as the work of a jeweler; an incredible variety of shapes, each separate unit unrepeated, but leading inevitably to the next one and to the whole; so that the future inhabitants were to have, not a square cage out of a square pile of cages, but each a single house held to the other houses like a…†
Chpt 2.4
- The walls rising in the darkness beyond the open door gave sanction to their rest, gave them the right to lightness, the building on which they had all worked together, the building that was like a low, audible harmony to the sound of their voices.†
Chpt 2.11
- The four architects had decided to achieve an effect of harmony and therefore not to use any historical style in its pure form.†
Chpt 2.15
- They call it harmony.†
Chpt 4.3 *
- They had worked in harmony, through conference after conference, each giving in to the others, in true collective spirit, none trying to impose his personal prejudices or selfish ideas.†
Chpt 4.7
- Universal Harmony'—'Eternal Spirit'—'Divine Purpose'—'Nirvana'—'Paradise'—'Racial Supremacy'—'The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.†
Chpt 4.14
Definition:
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(harmonious as in: soothing, harmonious music) of music: pleasing (through the combination of different notes)editor's notes: When speaking of music, do not confuse harmonious (pleasing sound) with harmony (the structure of the music with respect to the composition and progression of chords regardless of how pleasing it may or may not be).