All 50 Uses of
contempt
in
Atlas Shrugged
- "Don't show that you're scared, Jim," she said contemptuously.†
Chpt 1.1
- Rearden felt contempt for groups of that kind and saw no reason for a closer inquiry into their nature.†
Chpt 1.2
- But an almost unendurable contempt made him close his eyes, instead.†
Chpt 1.2
- When called upon, he moved with contemptuous slowness.†
Chpt 1.3
- She had shrugged, contemptuously amused; if it served his purpose, whatever that was, to appropriate her achievements, then, for his own advantage, if for no other reason, he would leave her free to achieve, from now on.†
Chpt 1.4
- Through the years of her childhood, Dagny lived in the future-in the world she expected to find, where she would not have to feel contempt or boredom.†
Chpt 1.5
- Jim's smile had a touch of triumph, the triumph of finding cause to feel contempt.†
Chpt 1.5
- She was talking to a couple of helpless young men, her face contemptuously empty.†
Chpt 1.5
- Days later, sitting at her desk at Rockdale Station, feeling lightheartedly at home, Dagny thought of the party and shrugged in contemptuous reproach at her own disappointment.†
Chpt 1.5
- "Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.†
Chpt 1.6
- Approaching Lillian once more, Rearden said without anger, the contempt becoming amusement in his voice, "I didn't know you knew that one.†
Chpt 1.6
- There had been a faint tone of amusement in Rearden's voice; now it hardened into a hint of contempt.†
Chpt 1.6
- Rearden asked sharply, as if the contempt of the second question could erase the confidence of the first.†
Chpt 1.6
- The contempt in Rearden's voice had a note of relief; he had been disarmed by a doubt of his judgment on the character of his adversary; now he felt certain once more.†
Chpt 1.6
- Rearden chuckled, gaily, contemptuously.†
Chpt 1.7
- He glanced through the clipping, smiled contemptuously and tossed it aside with a gesture of distaste.†
Chpt 1.7
- I've damned you for those mines, I've denounced you, I've thrown my contempt at you in every way possible, and now I come back to you-for money.†
Chpt 1.7
- She thought: You're tired-and watched her own mood with severe, contemptuous detachment, knowing that it would pass.†
Chpt 1.8
- Pat Logan, the engineer, a short, sinewy man with graying hair and a contemptuously inscrutable face, posed in a manner of amused indifference.†
Chpt 1.8
- Don't cross that bridge till I come to it," Pat Logan answered contemptuously.†
Chpt 1.8
- He turned the light on again, with a single, contemptuous jerk of his wrist.†
Chpt 1.8
- He stood looking down at her naked body, he leaned over, she heard his voice-it was more a statement of contemptuous triumph than a question: "You want it?"†
Chpt 1.8
- He said: "What I feel for you is contempt.†
Chpt 1.9
- But it's nothing, compared to the contempt I feel for myself.†
Chpt 1.9
- He kept seeing the eyes of the men of the Board when they spoke about his greatness: a sly, filmy look that held contempt for him and, more terrifyingly, for themselves.†
Chpt 1.9
- Then he shrugged and waved his hand in a gesture of contempt.†
Chpt 1.9
- There was the faint suggestion of a contemptuous smile in his face, at once admitting and mocking his knowledge of her hours of impatience and his own.†
Chpt 1.9
- He looked at her as if the question were a sight visualized in every detail, a sight he loathed, but would not abandon; she heard the contempt in his voice, the hatred, the suffering-and an odd eagerness that did not pertain to torture; he had asked the question, holding her body tight against him.†
Chpt 1.9
- I know that you feel contempt for the plumbing pipes.†
Chpt 1.10
- Your contempt means nothing to me.†
Chpt 1.10
- …him and he would never have the right to leavethe thought that he owed her at least the feeble recognition of sympathy, of respect for a feeling he could neither understand nor returnthe knowledge that he could summon nothing for her, except contempt, a strange, total, unreasoning contempt, impervious to pity, to reproach, to his own pleas for justice-and, hardest to bear, the proud revulsion against his own verdict, against his demand that he consider himself lower than this woman he…†
Chpt 1.10
- …would never have the right to leavethe thought that he owed her at least the feeble recognition of sympathy, of respect for a feeling he could neither understand nor returnthe knowledge that he could summon nothing for her, except contempt, a strange, total, unreasoning contempt, impervious to pity, to reproach, to his own pleas for justice-and, hardest to bear, the proud revulsion against his own verdict, against his demand that he consider himself lower than this woman he despised.†
Chpt 1.10
- He was so tired of all those people, he thought in contemptuous bitterness; he dealt with cosmic rays, while they were unable to deal with an electric storm.†
Chpt 2.1
- Dr. Stadler reached over and made the book slide from the corner to the center of his desk, with a contemptuous flick of one hand.†
Chpt 2.1
- "Public relations?" he said contemptuously.†
Chpt 2.1
- The fourth, who was the youngest, had looked at her silently for a moment and the lines of his face had slithered from blankness into a suggestion of contempt.†
Chpt 2.1
- I fully realize your contempt for that branch of science.†
Chpt 2.1
- He tossed the manuscript down on the desk with a casual, contemptuous movement of his wrist.†
Chpt 2.1
- A strange sense, which was almost a sense of style, made Rearden feel contempt for the boy, but no resentment.†
Chpt 2.1
- Years ago, he had wondered with contemptuous incredulity about the fanatical sects that appeared among men in the dark corners of history, the sects who believed that man was trapped in a malevolent universe ruled by evil for the sole purpose of his torture.†
Chpt 2.1
- He felt the tight, contemptuous movement of his lips pressed together in token of the words he cried to himself: You made a contract once, now stick to it.†
Chpt 2.2
- He looked straight at her for the first time, his eyes narrowed, his face relaxed to the same half-smile as hers, suggesting the expression which, for both of them, meant that they felt at home with each other: an expression of contempt.†
Chpt 2.2
- She saw the anger in his face-the rebellion against pity-the look of saying to her contemptuously that he had betrayed no torture and needed no help-then the look of the realization that she knew his face as thoroughly as he knew hers-he closed his eyes, he inclined his head a little, and he said very quietly, "Thank you."†
Chpt 2.2
- The great man who was so contemptuous-in business-of weaklings who trimmed corners or fell by the wayside, because they couldn't match his strength of character and steadfastness of purpose!†
Chpt 2.3
- I want you to look at me whenever you hear of some act of depravity, or feel anger at human corruption, or feel contempt for someone's knavery, or are the victim of a new governmental extortion-to look and to know that you're no better, that you're superior to no one, that there's nothing you have the right to condemn.†
Chpt 2.3
- His manner was that of dealing with the normal and the natural, it suggested a sense of safety, it held no tone of condemnation, but a hint of comradeship, a comradeship based-for both of them-on self-contempt.†
Chpt 2.3
- What Dr. Ferris was seeing in Rearden's face was the look of luminous serenity that comes from the sudden answer to an old, dark problem, a look of relaxation and eagerness together; there was a youthful clarity in Rearden's eyes and the faintest touch of contempt in the line of his mouth.†
Chpt 2.3
- Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused us to nothing but contempt?†
Chpt 2.3
- But the wonder was swallowed by the sight of the college boy's face, which he could not bear to see, by a wave of contempt, by the wordless thought that if this was the enemy, there was nothing to fear.†
Chpt 2.3
- She wanted to injure him by her contempt-but he could not be injured, unless he respected her judgment.†
Chpt 2.4