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animate v. inanimate
Definition
alive; or (more rarely) an animal—not a plant; or (more rarely still) the degree to which as an animal feels and thinks
- Now it was only a matter of making sounds, inarticulate sounds addressed to inanimate objects unrelated to such concepts as reality, human or honor.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (69% in)
- It won't, so long as you run it," When he did not smile, his face looked inanimate, only his eyes remained alive, active with a cold, brilliant clarity of perception.1.4 Part 1 Chapter 4 — The Immovable Movers (82% in)
- He had won his every battle against inanimate nature; but this was a battle he lost.1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (93% in)
- She submitted in the manner of complying with the rule that it was, at times, her duty to become an inanimate object turned over to her husband's use.1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (95% in)
- I damned the fact that joy is the core of existence, the motive power of every living being, that it is the need of one's body as it is the goal of one's spirit, that my body was not a weight of inanimate muscles, but an instrument able to give me an experience of superlative joy to unite my flesh and my spirit.2.6 Part 2 Chapter 6 — Miracle Metal (93% in)
- A circle, she thought, is the movement proper to physical nature, they say that there's nothing but circular motion in the inanimate universe around us, but the straight line is the badge of man, the straight line of a geometrical abstraction that makes roads, rails and bridges, the straight line that cuts the curving aimlessness of nature by a purposeful motion from a start to an end.2.8 Part 2 Chapter 8 — By Our Love (6% in)
- She saw him glance at her and glance away, as if she were merely another inanimate fixture of the train.2.10 Part 2 Chapter 10 — The Sign of the Dollar (6% in)
- Afterward, it did not disappoint him that what he had possessed was an inanimate body without resistance or response.3.4 Part 3 Chapter 4 — Anti-Life (82% in)
- It was like trying to summon emotion toward inanimate objects, toward refuse sliding down a mountainside to crush him.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (43% in)
- They looked at her with a kind of inanimate passivity, as if it made no difference whether she let them stay still or threw a switch to set them in motion.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (76% in)
- The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not: it depends on a specific course of action.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (17% in)
- Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of...3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (27% in)
- To a savage, the world is a place of unintelligible miracles where anything is possible to inanimate matter and nothing is possible to him.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (58% in)
- You proclaim yourself unable to harness the forces of inanimate matter, yet propose to harness the minds of men who are able to achieve the feats you cannot equal.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (70% in)
- ...willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude to force: the contemptible breed of those mystics of science who profess a devotion to some sort of 'pure knowledge' the purity consisting of their claim that such knowledge has no practical purpose on this earth-who reserve their logic for inanimate matter, but believe that the subject of dealing with men requires and deserves no rationality, who scorn money and sell their souls in exchange for a laboratory supplied by loot.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (95% in)
- It seemed senseless to waste such enormous effort on preventing catastrophes, on protecting the mi safety of trains carrying nothing but inanimate objects.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (72% in)
- But this-she thought-this inanimate indifference was the permanent state of the people around her, of men who had no purpose and no passion.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (73% in)
- "What's the matter with you?" gasped Mouch, catching a glimpse of Taggart's face while a current was twisting Galt's body: Taggart was staring at it intently, yet his eyes seemed glazed and dead, but around that inanimate stare the muscles of his face were pulled into an obscene caricature of enjoyment.3.9 Part 3 Chapter 9 — The Generator (82% in)
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- The secretary smiled with sudden animation, as if she were about to utter an enthusiastic compliment, but the smile vanished abruptly.2.3 Part 2 Chapter 3 — White Blackmail (53% in)
- A few people stood in clusters on the half-deserted platform; animated conversations seemed to be going on, and newspapers were more prominently in evidence than usual.1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (92% in)
- Her mouth held the hint of a smile; there was a spark of animation in her lifeless eyes; she glanced from one face to another, jerking her head with the awkward eagerness of a schoolgirl.2.5 Part 2 Chapter 5 — Account Overdrawn (84% in)
- It was an impersonal feeling, she did not look at him as at a man, but as at an animated work of art-and it seemed to be a stressed indignity of the outer world that a perfection such as his should be subjected to the shocks, the strains, the scars reserved for any man who loved his work.3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (3% in)
- It's a sound, practical Plan!" snapped James Taggart unexpectedly, with an angry edge of sudden animation in his voice.3.6 Part 3 Chapter 6 — The Concerto of Deliverance (49% in)
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